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Could be. Automating it would be swell.
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You have some mighty busy spiders! Hope you don't wake up one day looking like Frodo... 
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Nice. My photography is mainly of small and tiny natural things.
Much as I love spring and summer, autumn has the best characteristics for macro-photography, so much of nature giving it's last hurrah before the end; elegant details on seed pods.
That field is quite odd - so covered with webs.
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Very nice!  +5
/ravi
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Nice!
OK, the standard question: what camera did you use to take the pic?
And also, very appropriate for the upcoming Halloween day. 
Marc
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I used my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S6.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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PJ Arends wrote: a Samsung Galaxy S6.
Wow! I'm impressed it managed to focus on the webs and not some other object. The times I've tried to take pictures of spider webs, my phone (Galaxy S5) usually focuses on something else.
Marc
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Me too. I took four other shots and this one was the only one that focused on the webs and the dandelions. The others all seemed to focus on the trees in the background.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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This is the kind of stuff I mean (about the fall):
Morning Glory[^]
or, keeping with your dandylion theme,
Dandylion[^]
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Very cool! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Looks like a lot of webs on the lawn. Spiders out of a horror movie perhaps? yikes!! Cool pic though.
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Dew. I read that as dev and thought 
Time to get spectacles
Cool pic. The spiders have. been busy...
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Curry (the orange cat, surprise) knocked over a lamp which broke the bulb, pieces of glass all over the rug. When I plugged in the vacuum cleaner and turned it on, it popped the circuit breaker. The power surge fried my cable modem, so now I don't have "real" Internet access until the cable guy comes tomorrow morning. Currently using my phone as a hotspot, which is working quite well.
Then, an hour later, I hear this thump followed by squeak-squeak -- Earl Grey (gee, guess is color) had caught a mouse (his second in 4 days) in the bedroom! I chased him (the cat) downstairs with mouse in mouth (the cat's, not mine), grabbed a glass and lid, and managed to get Earl Grey to drop the mouse, still very alive and kicking, which I managed to trap. Mouse is now back outside. Hopefully he'll know not to come back where a cat can catch him.
What a fun day for all!
Marc
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This is the best combination of English language words I have ever seen.
Oh also, big fan of your non-catdescribing work.
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Yeah, I know the feeling - I dump live prey as far away as possible most days.
Today was a novelty though - Dij has never brought in a fish before. Only a little one, but gawd knows where he got it. It's brown and dull (and somewhat chewed) and the river is moving far too fast for him to go fishing, and it's too boring to be a pond fish.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only a little one, but gawd knows where he got it. It's brown and dull
Tubbs knows[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only a little one, but gawd knows where he got it
A neighbour with a fish tank?
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I looked at the image you attached to your CP profile.
If you can get an animated version I'd give you an up-vote.
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Check around your neighborhood for gollum carcass. A smart cat would let someone else get wet and then take the fish.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's brown and dull
Sounds more like a leech!
Maybe a tadpole kind of thing?
Marc
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No, it's a fish (or it was) - fish eyes, fish shape (blunt front end tapering to a small tail that looks like a arrow fletching), about 3 inches long. Yellowy-white belly.
In the near dark I thought it was a badly battered slug at first... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Marc Clifton wrote: The power surge fried my cable modem
Did the cable modem have any kind of surge protection?
If not, what would one suggest as a workable option?
I don't even want to think about losing the cable modem... that would be a bad day...
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Did the cable modem have any kind of surge protection?
Don't believe in them.  Why you ask? Something I read years ago that said most of them are useless and don't actually protect from the most common kinds of spikes. Granted, my info is about as old as when politicians actually were worth their paycheck.
Tim Carmichael wrote: I don't even want to think about losing the cable modem... that would be a bad day...
I'm impressed with the phone hotspot. Casual surfing, that huge pic of the spider web, the SpaceX interplanetary video -- all were very snappy!
Marc
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Yeah, but what is it doing to your data rates?
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Marc Clifton wrote: Don't believe in them.
I would never have figured you for a Luddite, Marc. 
Surge protectors work beautifully if they're properly rated. The problem is that most people buy the cheapest one available and expect miracles. I look for the highest joule rating I can afford, then use that to protect the UPS I keep all critical components plugged into. If the protector fails, the UPS batteries serve as a backup protection device, albeit an expensive one. Although we get vicious monsoon thunderstorms here, I have yet to lose any device to lightning or other surge.
I use my phone as a hotspot, too, and you're right - it works great! A lot better than Nish's did when I met him, at least. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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