DCXXI: Overruled

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Lani Kai: did you know that if you let z = the radius of a circle
Lani Kai: pi*z*z=a?
ibleedgraphite: a = pi*eceofshit
ibleedgraphite: where eceofshit = radius squared
Lani Kai: variables are not supposed to be 9 letters long
ibleedgraphite: stop making up rules

DCXX: Upgrades

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Lani Kai: what do you think of Creative Suite 5?
ibleedgraphite: umm
ibleedgraphite: hmm
ibleedgraphite: 5 is a higher number than 4
ibleedgraphite: and that's all I know
Lani Kai: ok
Lani Kai: I'm going to skip Windows 7 and upgrade to Windows 2000

DCXIX: It's Been A While

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ibleedgraphite: hmm, that is rather nice
Lani Kai: that's not something you say often about landscape photos
ibleedgraphite: how did you get the sky to change color between the left and right
Lani Kai: that's kind of what happens when the sun is setting
ibleedgraphite: yeah, right
Lani Kai: I'm not sure if you're saying that in agreement or in scorn

DCXVIII: Qu'est-ce que c'est?

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ibleedgraphite: c'est un fleur
Lani Kai: ceci n'est pas un fleur
ibleedgraphite: well, you don't know what "ce" is referring to
Lani Kai: neither do you
ibleedgraphite: touché

DCXVII: Irrelevant

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ibleedgraphite: that's lovely
ibleedgraphite: except there appear to be patches of poisonous brown algae floating at the top
Lani Kai: what do you expect from LA?
ibleedgraphite: mean police officers
ibleedgraphite: but I guess that is not relevant

DCXVI: Playing With Fire

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ibleedgraphite: what the hell is that
Lani Kai: a candle holder
Lani Kai: filled with ethyl alcohol which was lit on fire
Lani Kai: and then we sprayed some butane on it
ibleedgraphite: it's purty

DCXV: Deterministic

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Lani Kai: I'm not going to ask the inevitable
ibleedgraphite: 1. if it's inevitable, you're going to ask it anyway so you might as well
ibleedgraphite: 2. if it's not inevitable, you don't have any compunction against not asking it, so you might as well
Lani Kai: that is a fair point; I will attempt to put off asking the inevitable for as long as possible
ibleedgraphite: how about you provide the first and last words of the question, and I will infer the middle part
Lani Kai: the... this?
ibleedgraphite: "the photograph is incredibly awesome; why is this?"
ibleedgraphite: it's because I turned it upside down

DCXIV: Amnesia

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ibleedgraphite: I don't remember signing a model release
Lani Kai: that is only necessary if I want to sell the photo
Lani Kai: besides, this is clearly a miniature of you
Lani Kai: on a miniature riverbed
ibleedgraphite: I don't remember signing a miniature model release
Lani Kai: like I said...

DCXIII: The Other Side

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ibleedgraphite: the door on the other side looks really small
Lani Kai: well, it's only about 8 inches high
ibleedgraphite: for the leprechauns that work at Kaiser Permanente?

DCXII: Manipulation

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ibleedgraphite: the clouds near the horizon seem like they have linear burn applied
Lani Kai: I wouldn't know
ibleedgraphite: linear burn decrease brightness to darken the base color and reflect the blend color
Lani Kai: if you say so
Lani Kai: I've probably never used it before
ibleedgraphite: it looks like the clouds started a little lighter
ibleedgraphite: and were blended with the orange via linear burn
Lani Kai: I don't use blending options
ibleedgraphite: blending modes are the best
ibleedgraphite: do you at least use multiply?
Lani Kai: no
ibleedgraphite: if I have a Photoshop file with more than 10 layers
ibleedgraphite: chances are at least one is set to multiply
Lani Kai: I don't ever have more than 10 layers
Lani Kai: on extremely rare occasions
Lani Kai: I might have as many as two layers
ibleedgraphite: including adjustment layers?
Lani Kai: I don't really use that either
Lani Kai: god, how much photo manipulation are you doing?

DCXI: Strategy

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ibleedgraphite: what does the phrase "strategic partnership" mean?
Lani Kai: that they will strategically take advantage of you and run away with all the money?
ibleedgraphite: well, how is that different from a regular partnership
Lani Kai: a regular partnership is not necessarily strategic
Lani Kai: maybe he will punch you and take your money and run
ibleedgraphite: I have strategically not stepped outside today

DCX: Malfunction

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Lani Kai: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYZTRoEcX1sgJ1uSUpvxqdgTmqfhkVhf6ltHzUrSLKnwxCk6MvKoI941uYba5-pJ-Wi6NjgAnMipfiZeKBlIMYqOWEC6YTebFG0djz8tOy5cyu7V6ws5M3FgAG-GjrmT3HbzoHMQ/s1600-h/OM180399.jpg 
ibleedgraphite: what?
Lani Kai: what
ibleedgraphite: it said you said something
Lani Kai: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYZTRoEcX1sgJ1uSUpvxqdgTmqfhkVhf6ltHzUrSLKnwxCk6MvKoI941uYba5-pJ-Wi6NjgAnMipfiZeKBlIMYqOWEC6YTebFG0djz8tOy5cyu7V6ws5M3FgAG-GjrmT3HbzoHMQ/s1600-h/OM180399.jpg
iibleedgraphite: you did it again
Lani Kai: what the hell are you talking about
ibleedgraphite: it keeps showing your screen name as if you typed a message
ibleedgraphite: but there is no message

DCIX: Reddy or Not

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ibleedgraphite: this is red
Lani Kai: that is red

DCVIII: Tied Down

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Lani Kai: so you know how "SOS" is ***---***
Lani Kai: "3TIE" is ***---***
Lani Kai: how do you differentiate?
ibleedgraphite: I don't think you need to
ibleedgraphite: wearing 3 ties is clearly a fashion emergency requiring immediate relief

DCVII: Niche Market

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ibleedgraphite: nurf
Lani Kai: nerf?
ibleedgraphite: no, that's trademarked
Lani Kai: are you allowed to have homophonic product names?
Lani Kai: like an App-Oh Eyepod?
ibleedgraphite: great, mp3 player for autistic Koreans

DCVI: Distractions

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ibleedgraphite: the orange bit is pretty cool
ibleedgraphite: perhaps you should focus on that
Lani Kai: and crop the background out?
ibleedgraphite: or something

...

ibleedgraphite: hm, the background is still distracting to me
Lani Kai: don't be so easily distracted then
ibleedgraphite: okay
ibleedgraphite: I will cut a hole in a sheet of white paper the shape of the wooden thing
ibleedgraphite: and place it over the monitor when I need to look at your picture

DCV: Annoying

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Lani Kai: this is the kind of photo your mother would like, if not for the missing petals
ibleedgraphite: I like it for the annoyingly saturated colors

DCIV: Trickery

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Lani Kai: that is rather Ansel Adams-y
Lani Kai: I like the light
ibleedgraphite: it is artificial
ibleedgraphite: there's actually very little contrast
ibleedgraphite: changing the levels that much messed up the color, which is hidden by the bw
ibleedgraphite: I've probably never taken a correctly exposed photo in my life that turned out well

DCIII: Freedom of Thought

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ibleedgraphite: that is an evil sign
ibleedgraphite: it just made me think of parking there
Lani Kai: it is
Lani Kai: are you supposed to stop or not?
ibleedgraphite: oh
ibleedgraphite: I was only looking at the bottom one
ibleedgraphite: you seem to enjoy taking pictures of signs on the sides of roads
Lani Kai: perhaps

DCII: In Popular Culture

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ibleedgraphite: hmm
ibleedgraphite: I believe that building was designed by Renzo Piano
ibleedgraphite: and it was blown up by aliens in Independence Day
ibleedgraphite: aliens don't like postmodern architecture
Lani Kai: "The building was designed by Henry N. Cobb of the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and cost $350 million to build."
ibleedgraphite: oh, okay
ibleedgraphite: that makes more sense
Lani Kai: the Wikipedia article also doesn't say anything about Independence Day
Lani Kai: which means it didn't happen
ibleedgraphite: I'll add it then
ibleedgraphite: the page needs an "In Popular Culture" section
Lani Kai: I'll flag it with [citation needed]