"These are not the Droids you are looking for"

Thanks - Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness.

It's great that there's a place for other strange people like me!!

Martin

 

So am I assuming correctly you are introducing yourself to the forums by way of suggesting the place is friendly to any and all comers while at the same time home to many different walks of life, from the super intelligent to the outright quirky?

If so... Welcome to the MG's

 

Um, yes, you expressed it rather better than I did!!

 

I'd be one of the Quirky ones :-D

 

I'd like to claim that English is not my first language!

It just sounds like that sometimes:-D

Martin

 

Strangely enough, so did I.LOL

 

Laura,

I tried to send you a PM, but couldn't (I think because I'm new here).

Had a look at your photographs on deviantART, because I love photography too. I thought I was quite good at it, but your shots are WAY better than anything I've done...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmerlin/3091818705/in/set-72157611109133683/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmerlin/3091818705/in/set-72157611109133683/


Was worried about sounding "geeky" by asking what camera you use, but hey - this is MajorGeeks

The Spitfire picture was with a Panasonic FZ20. Now I've just bought a Nikon P500. Had a Canon SLR, pre-digital, but got fed up with carrying bags of lenses around. The Nikon's pretty good, but I'm thinking about getting a 2x converter for it, which kind of defeats the object!!

Martin

 

Me too!! LOL

 

Am I the only one who didn't think of phones? lol

 

probably.. you must be more of a nerd then we are :-D (not an insult)

 

I totally got the Jedi mind trick although I am not a fan of the star war saga.

 

Hmm, never looked at it that way, I don't have or want a cell phone so old words like "Droids" still means "Robot" to me, guess I am an old fashioned... nah not nerd, geek, I can't be a nerd, I've never got a pen :-D

 

Aha

Droids <-> Phones

That pseudonym had not reached me in the darkest depths of England, where I'm stuck now.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, it had been bugging me for a while!!

Martin

 

"I took a look at your gallery. You have some nice stuff in there."


I have some more recent stuff here, nothing up to your standard though:-o
https://picasaweb.google.com/112408209771742517343/StarredPhotos#

The "boats beached by the tide" is my favourite of these.

 

Wow - thanks!

I really like this picture too. Some people that I've shown this picture to
have said dumb things like "what's that a picture of?" - probably preferring to see a human figure in the foreground - philistines!

Martin

 

a pen?? :confused

 

Thanks for asking that...

... I wondered too, but was afraid to ask because it might have produced a heap of "well obviously, it means this... dummy" responses!

I suppose that the people on here are "a better class of geek" though!

Martin

 

There's some serious injury to the geek cred around here. Welcome to MG.

 

ohhhh.. but how do we know he doesn't have a pocket protector? :-D

 

His shirt pocket still has the ink stain

 

Agreed. Needs to be shot and dressed.

 

Oh come now Dyamond, if I never have a pen, why would I have a pocket pen protector?
That wouldn't be nerdy, that would be just plain stoopid :-D

Yes my reference was basically poking fun at the fact a "Nerd" ALWAYS has a pen.... me? I'm a geek because I can never bloody find one under all the various electronics parts laying around :-D

 

...I do! - Had it for the last 35 years or so.

 

Nerd :-D

 

Stoooopid?? Nahhh, I think you are in denial :-D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

:-D:-D:-D