Nice Tips On Waxing photos
A few nice tips on waxing images I found:
This is me – I work on the web
Image by Jordan Brock
This is me. I work on the web.
I started building websites when I was working for AOT Consulting in 1995. What began as an extra service offered to our clients became an almost fulltime job. In 1997 I left and started Spin Technologies, working in a corner of the spare room in a crappy rental in Northbridge.
Spin waxed and waned with the prevailing trends, moving into offices in Money St in Northbridge, and at one point having 5 staff. After a world jaunt getting married in 2003 I decided that I wanted to work on my own again. I was running a business and wasn’t doing much development, and missed it. (That and the fact that I pretty much sucked as a business manager 
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Spin continued quite happily, once again working from home, for a few years. Over this time I was doing more and more work for Five Senses Coffee, working on the website, and a couple of intranets that they needed to run their operations. Eventually I was working 3-4 days a week just on Five Senses stuff, and Dean, the owner, made me an offer only an idiot would refuse and I started working full time in July 2007.
I used to be a die hard MS apologist, working in (and perversely enjoying) ASP.Net 1.1 and C#, happily ignoring the open source world. Then sometime around August 2003 I saw a screencast on RubyOnRails and I was blown away. I bought myself a shiny new iMac, learned Ruby and before I knew it I had transferred almost all of my sites to RonR and was a full time rails bitch.
This post is part of the "I Work On The Web" meme that is gaining traction. Check out the other stories.
Madame Toussaud’s Berlin
Image by Yaisog Bonegnasher
good ol’ Otto von Bismarck [Wikipedia], Chancellor of the second German Empire, greets the visitors of the Berlin franchise of Madame Toussaud’s with a grim look. he and the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, are the first two wax figures you will see when entering. there are maybe 50 figures overall, with a strong bias to Germans, as one would expect. most of them look amazingly lifelike.
Hitler, after getting his head ripped off by some idiot, is not back yet. there is just an empty desk where he used to sit. oh, and he is the only figure which is prohibited from being touched and photographed — at least he was supposed to. well, we didn’t go there just to see Hitler, anyhow.
as a tip, buy your tickets on the MT website. not only can you save some money, but with your pre-paid ticket you will be able to use the group entrance. instead of waiting in a line of some 100 people, we had maybe 4 others ahead of us and didn’t wait more than a minute.
I didn’t wanna use my on-board flash, because those pictures always look sorta fake, so I cranked the ISO up to 800, which gave me shutter speeds of 1/30 and below for most of the pictures. and I have to say that I’m amazed at the low noise levels. with my old camera, at ISO800 you would’ve thought it was snowing…
also, fortunately I shot in RAW, because I had left the white balance on "daylight." with an auto fix upon importing, the yellow cast was gone and the colors turned out pretty nice after all. I don’t think it would have been that easy with JPGs…
Wax Goldenweed
Image by Lakenvelder
Dickinson County, Kansas
Annual
Height: 2-5 feet
Family: Asteraceae – Sunflower Family
Flowering Period: August, September
Stems:Erect, stout, solitary, simple below, short-branched at top, very leafy, glabrous.
Leaves:Alternate, simple, sessile, clasping, firm, egg-shaped, 1 to 3 inches long, .5 to 1.5 inch wide, conspicuously veined; margins with sharp, bristle-tipped teeth; tips rounded or blunt; leaves generally on upper 2/3 of stem.
Inflorescences: Heads, few in open cymes or sometimes solitary, terminal, hemispheric, .75 to 1.5 inch wide; bracts overlapping in 4-5 series; tips narrow-pointed, turning outward.
Flowers: Ray florets approximately 25-45, about 1/2 inch long, yellow; disk florets yellow.
Fruits: Achenes, oval to oblong, somewhat flattened, glabrous, tipped with numerous, rigid, yellowish to reddish brown bristles, enclosing small seed.
Habitat: Dry, open, sandy or rocky hillsides and waste places.
Distribution:Nearly throughout Kansas.
Comments: Named for German botanist David Hieronymus Grindel, who lived from 1777-1836.
Wax goldenweed is avoided by grazing livestock.
www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=158
