Comments | greygirlbeast: "The sea was wet as wet can be."

greygirlbeast

"The sea was wet as wet can be."

Sep 05, 2010 14:10

Congratulations to all the Hugo Award winners. I just saw the list. I am especially pleased to see the novel tie between Miéville and Bacigalupi, and also the wins by Peter Watts, Ellen Datlow, Clarkesworld, the screenplay for Moon, and Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars. Well done ( Read more... )

computer stuff, sirenia, geology, awards, rhode island, the sea, fort wetherill

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valdary September 5 2010, 18:44:00 UTC

I favour The GIMP www.gimo.org which is free. The controls are very different but there is a way to do most the things photoshop does and a few things it doesn't.

valdary September 5 2010, 18:47:26 UTC

should be http://www.gimp.org

greygirlbeast September 5 2010, 18:56:00 UTC

I favour The GIMP www.gimo.org which is free.

That was alreday my first choice, but thanks.

iterum September 6 2010, 17:19:50 UTC

I'm a happy GIMP user, for several years now. Which would sound a little odd out of context, come to think of it.

Saturday was indeed a perfect day for Rhode-Island-sea-shore-ing. I did mine down at Point Brenton in Newport, where there are also some spiffy ruins.

mrs_ralph September 5 2010, 23:00:01 UTC

I had the oddest thought reading this: "This is how Josephine March might have lived if she was born in the latter half of the 20th century"

greygirlbeast September 5 2010, 23:41:35 UTC

Not entirely sure how I should take that...

mrs_ralph September 6 2010, 08:28:58 UTC

Goes to state of mind...we were talking about reprises of Victorian novels here (Drood, Pride and Prejudice with Zombies etc) and there you were in your Katherine Hepburn-ish trousers talking about Sirenia Digest and it all fell together.

ext_249035 September 6 2010, 03:19:32 UTC

Those are beautiful photos. I miss the sea. I used to go with my family to Cape Cod every summer, but I haven't been there since I was like thirteen, so... fifteen years I guess. Though I was in Salem back in '04, but I didn't get close to a beach.

I second the GIMP as a photo manipulation program. I use it on my Linux powered laptop and it's a good program.

mira_ceti September 6 2010, 08:49:54 UTC

I thought of you this morning while going to work, because of the *very* carnivorous sky we have today here, way too carnivorous for me. It is exactly the same as on your pictures.
Thanks for the pictures, this set I particularly like.

gargirl September 6 2010, 17:39:38 UTC

As always, your photos make me miss the sea and the shore fiercely.