{"id":11910,"date":"2023-05-04T09:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:08:33","slug":"thursday-links-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2023\/05\/04\/thursday-links-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m overdue on sharing links. To be fair, I haven\u2019t saved very many of late.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A major bummer in the photography world, as Amazon is shutting down DP Review. Anyone who has bought a camera, lens, or other equipment in the past two decades has likely used DP as a resource. It looks like Amazon has clarified their initial plans and will keep the archives up. I just used those this week while looking at film lenses.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is more about niche hobbies and how\/if they can survive in the modern world. Obviously it is of interest to 50-somethings like me who are the prime forces behind those esoteric pastimes.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arun.is\/blog\/rip-dpreview\/\">RIP DPReview<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Snakes are endlessly fascinating to me. Although I don\u2019t want to be anywhere near them. Some of these pictures are incredible.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/namibia-adder-marisa-ishimatsu\/\">Photographer Spends 10 Days Tracking Down Snakes in Namibia<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I had no idea there were turf wars in LA between the many Depeche Mode cover bands. As Kevin Garnett said, anything is possible!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2217388\/depeche-mode-tribute-bands\/columns\/sounding-board\/\">Just Can\u2019t Get Enough: The Warring Depeche Mode Tribute Bands Of Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>M got admitted to three schools and less than $10K in combined scholarship offers. Slacker.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/local\/orleans\/my-goal-is-to-reach-10-million-new-orleans-senior-breaks-records-with-125-college-offers-and-9m-in-scholarships-local-news-education\/289-ca33f46b-0d55-4b6f-8b40-a21db38579e3\">New Orleans senior shatters U.S. record with 125 college offers, $9 million in scholarships<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It\u2019s almost outdoor entertaining season. Some decent tips in here.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/23689936\/keep-bugs-away-food-outside-cookout-picnic\">How to Dine Outdoors, Minus the Bugs<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Finally, a moment of zen?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article274966116.html\">911 call about fight ends with Florida cop separating 2 brawling goats, sheriff says<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m overdue on sharing links. To be fair, I haven\u2019t saved very many of late. A major bummer in the photography world, as Amazon is shutting down DP Review. Anyone who has bought a camera, lens, or other equipment in the past two decades has likely used DP as a resource. It looks like Amazon has clarified their initial plans and will keep the archives up. I just used those this week while looking at film lenses. This piece is more about niche hobbies and how\/if they can survive in the modern world. Obviously it is of interest to 50-somethings like me who are the prime forces behind those esoteric pastimes.RIP DPReview Snakes are endlessly fascinating to me. Although I don\u2019t want to be anywhere near them. Some of these pictures are incredible.Photographer Spends 10 Days Tracking Down Snakes in Namibia I had no idea there were turf wars in LA between the many Depeche Mode cover bands. As Kevin Garnett said, anything is possible!Just Can\u2019t Get Enough: The Warring Depeche Mode Tribute Bands Of Los Angeles M got admitted to three schools and less than $10K in combined scholarship offers. Slacker.New Orleans senior shatters U.S. record with 125 college offers, $9 million in scholarships It\u2019s almost outdoor entertaining season. Some decent tips in here.How to Dine Outdoors, Minus the Bugs Finally, a moment of zen?911 call about fight ends with Florida cop separating 2 brawling goats, sheriff says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11912,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/11912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}