DCXXXI: Impostor

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ibleedgraphite: nice try
ibleedgraphite: who are you, what did you do to Lani Kai
Lani Kai: you must like this picture
Lani Kai: that happens like twice a year
Lani Kai: although last year I had like five in a row that you liked
ibleedgraphite: stop talking like you're actually Lani Kai
ibleedgraphite: I'm calling the police
Lani Kai: this is peculiar, because no one liked any of the photos in the Colorado set
Lani Kai: zero comments on Facebook
Lani Kai: not even a single "like"

DCXXX: Upgrade

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ibleedgraphite: I thought you went to Colorado
Lani Kai: I did
ibleedgraphite: why do you have pictures from Saudi Arabia
Lani Kai: as well as New Mexico
ibleedgraphite: is that better than old Mexico?
Lani Kai: only slightly
ibleedgraphite: firmware upgrade?
Lani Kai: something like that

DCXXIX: More Blues

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ibleedgraphite:you get to choose: blue or orange 
Lani Kai: blue

...

Lani Kai: there also appears to be a hair or something on the top left corner
ibleedgraphite: it's called a punctum
ibleedgraphite: if you had picked orange, you would have gotten some Joshua Tree clouds
Lani Kai: that can come tomorrow or something then
ibleedgraphite: nope, you already chose; you can never go down that path
ibleedgraphite: that's like if Neo took both pills at the same time
Lani Kai: well he should have
Lani Kai: or at least, he should have taken one, then asked for the other at a later time
ibleedgraphite: that wasn't covered by his HMOrpheus

DCXXVIII: Blue Sand

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ibleedgraphite: it looks like
ibleedgraphite: blue sand
ibleedgraphite: with little lines raked into it like a Japanese rock garden
ibleedgraphite: except that it's a huge rock garden
Lani Kai: something like that

DCXXVII: I'm Not On A Boat

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ibleedgraphite: were you on a boat?
Lani Kai: no
Lani Kai: we can still listen to the song though

DCXXVI: MDCCCXCV

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ibleedgraphite: do you know what else happened in 1895?
Lani Kai: yes
Lani Kai: the Sino-Japanese War
ibleedgraphite: April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.

DCXXV: Chroni-what?

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ibleedgraphite: in Narnia, there is a random lamppost in the middle of the forest
ibleedgraphite: "Resembling a London streetlamp it stood in the middle of the forest and shone day and night."
Lani Kai: is it of any significance in the story?
ibleedgraphite: well, it's a major landmark; the whole area is called the Lantern Waste after it
ibleedgraphite: when Lucy first enters Narnia through the wardrobe, it's where she meets Mr. Tumnus the faun

DCXXIV: Implication

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ibleedgraphite: drunkard
ibleedgraphite: alcohol is sinful
ibleedgraphite: repent
Lani Kai: it's okay because I don't drive after I've had a drink
ibleedgraphite: I don't like what you're implying

DCXXIII: Problems

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ibleedgraphite: so what did you do yesterday?
Lani Kai: went back out to Carrizo Plain
Lani Kai: took pictures and did some off-roading
ibleedgraphite: what the heck
ibleedgraphite: did you leave and come back in the same day?
Lani Kai: yes
Lani Kai: as I did last time
ibleedgraphite: sigh
ibleedgraphite: I think you have a problem

DCXXII: Outdated

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ibleedgraphite: you made me lose the game I was playing
Lani Kai: what game was it?
ibleedgraphite: Starcraft II
Lani Kai: oh
Lani Kai: whatever then
ibleedgraphite: would you have been sympathetic if it was something else?
Lani Kai: maybe
Lani Kai: is it just me, or was it like eleventy-five years between Starcraft and Starcraft II?
ibleedgraphite: only 14 actually
Lani Kai: that would be like coming out with Pong II

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?