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Avoid facts as much as possible when you are trying to understand Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu - avoid factuality. They are not concerned with facts, and that does not mean that what is being said is fiction either; it is neither fact nor fiction. It is a poetic way of expressing things which are inexpressible - essentially, intrinsically inexpressible. There are things which can be only hinted at; these parables are ways to hint. Don't take them too seriously, take them light-heartedly. Enjoy them and try to discover the significance of them. And don't bother at all whether such an incident ever happened or not.
It will be good for you to remember that East has never been interested in history at all; it has never written history. It is only when it started coming in contact with the West that East became interested in history. Otherwise East has never written history - for the simple reason because history is rubbish. What is the point of writing ordinary, factual things? We have been writing the essential things, and there is a difference between the incidental and the essential.
Go to a Jaina temple and you will see there twenty-four statues of Jaina tirthankaras - the people who are like Jesus, Buddha, Zarathustra - and you will be surprised, they all look exactly the same. It is not possible; you cannot find twenty-four persons exactly the same. Even Jainas cannot make the distinction who is who. They cannot tell you who is Mahavira and who is Neminatha and who is Parshvanatha and who is the first and who is the last, because they look absolutely alike - the same faces, the same noses, the same eyes, the same bodies, the same posture. To distinguish that they are different people, Jainas have discovered symbols. Each statue has a small symbol; the symbol shows a lion or something that shows whose statue it is.
Why they have made them alike? Certainly they are not historical. They are alike because the Jaina sculptors were not concerned with history, they were concerned with inner phenomena. They had attained to the same experience - how to represent it? and how to represent it in marble? They have attained to same stillness, same centering, same groundedness, same crystallization. Hence the same statues - the same posture, the same body represents something of the inner - the same spiritual state, the same samadhi.
You will be surprised watching those twenty-four tirthankaras and their statues, about many things. You will see their ears are very big, their earlobes are touching their shoulders. You cannot find such long ears. It represents something. It says these people attained to their ultimate state of consciousness by absolute listening: listening to the songs of the birds, listening to the wind passing through the pine trees listening to the sound of water, listening silently to all that goes on happening around.
Listening was their method. Just as the Buddhist method is watching the breath, the Jaina method is listening to the sounds. Right listening is enough. If one can listen without the mind chattering inside, if the mind becomes completely calm.this dog barking far away or the birds chirping. If you can just listen without thinking even that this is a dog barking, that these are birds chirping, just listening with no thought, with no interpretation, you will attain to deeper and deeper realms of silence; you will reach to the ultimate consciousness.

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November To Dismember Metal Fest 2014
November 28 - 30, 2014
November To Dismember Metal Fest will take place in Bucharest, Romania on November 28-30, 2014. Tankard, Asphyx and Morgoth are among the bands that will perform at the November To Dismember festival.
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December 11 - 14, 2014
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Maloof Skate Plaza
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Dylan Siebenaler of Sugar Land, Texas, has given a verbal commitment to play college golf at Texas A&M. Siebenaler is the No. 71-ranked player in the 2013 class.
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The elegant and stylish Cavendish is a two bedroom, two bathroom vacation rental set on a lovely garden square in a prestigious South Kensington neighborhood. Step through the entrance into a gorgeous and sunny living room decorated with designer furniture and beautiful original artwork. The room is accented with warm yellow and pink tones that create a cheerful and charming setting. The kitchen is equally inviting and features a balcony with bistro table where you can enjoy outstanding views overlooking the classic rooftops and chimneys of London. While staying at the Cavendish you'll also enjoy access to a beautiful gated garden square, which is a rare and lovely feature with a London vacation rental!
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DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200728
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Volume 24, Issue 35, pages 4739–4744, September 11, 2012
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Lee, E. J., Ahn, K.-Y., Lee, J.-H., Park, J.-S., Song, J.-A., Sim, S. J., Lee, E. B., Cha, Y. J. and Lee, J. (2012), A Novel Bioassay Platform Using Ferritin-Based Nanoprobe Hydrogel. Adv. Mater., 24: 4739–4744. doi: 10.1002/adma.201200728
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There are a lot of names in the Seduction Industry that it can be a truly confusing mess. Who to trust, who's as good as they say they are, who are scam artists, etc. For every good PUA, there are at least 10 creepy wannabes pickup artists and scam artists.
So I can't really speak to all those questions and issues.
Quite frankly I avoid immersing myself too much in the PUA Community except for the occasional trade show and I avoid reading and watching other pickup artist's material like the plague. But that doesn't help YOU make sense of this confusing mess.
So I thought that I would give my list of PUAs that I've hung out with in real life (not including my own personal friends like William the Better Asian Man as that would be obviously unfair). Some are friends while others professional acquaintances. What this is NOT is a list of the Top Pick Up Artist of 2011, as in who is the best teacher or best pickup artist or who runs the best bootcamps or has the best pick same night lay game.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't.
Instead, this is a list of people that I don't mind, and even enjoy hanging out with. We've either done business or spent personal time together in a non-professional, personal setting. I can't speak for their pickup artist bootcamps, or how good they are, and whatnot. This is a list of the Top PUAs of 2011 That Didn't Creep Me Out and that's it.
(My apologies in advance to those that didn't make the list, I could only put 10 names up there!)
With that in mind take this list (in no real order) as you will. To each of them, I asked this question:
"If a man got amnesia and lost all his pickup and seduction skills tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd teach him to do before anything else and why?"
And here's what they had to say (with NO affiliate links whatsoever mind you)…
Top 10 PUAs of 2011 (That Didn't Creep Me Out)
- Matador (Venusian Arts) -
I've known Matador for YEARS. He's one of my oldest PUA friends since we both started back in 2004. I remember sarging with him (and accidentally AMOGGING him) back in 2004 in Orange County. He and I both have gone a long way from where we were before: two newbie wannabe PUAs running around town experimenting with different tactics, strategies and just basically having a good ol' fun time with it. Nowadays. we're old war horses and veterans in the industry and I'm very glad to have seen his rising success in the community and out of it from his own TV show to movies and Broadway plays. MATADOR'S ANSWER: "I would teach him about the types of value and how you can manipulate them in your favor while dealing with the opposite sex."
- Bravo (Bravo PUA) -
I first met Bravo at Neil Strauss's mansion party for VH1 The Pickup Artist when he worked for Stylelife. We've hung out at the occasional PUA trade show and he's very much a man's man. He's since moved on from Los Angeles, but he's still out there helping out guys in need. BRAVO'S ANSWER: "The very first thing I would teach a guy who forget everything is that this IS something you can learn and get better at. When that lightswitch flipped in my head it transformed me from a chubby. depressed 25 yr old divorcé who was dreading getting back into the dating scene, into a guy who now had hope that he would get better at this and not go through such a horrible experience again. I would like to explain this to him while working on something that makes an instance difference, a fashion and hair make over (I like to be efficient!). When you look good you feel good and that confidence then makes everything easier."
- Kezia Noble (Kezia Noble) -
I've collaborated with Kezia Noble for a PUA All Star Workshop and while I know there's controversy surrounding whether or not a female can actually teach pickup, I personally find the unique insight that Kezia Noble gives into the female psyche to be fascinating and it simple reinforces what I already know. I've always known that the certain techniques and things that I do work consistently, but it's also nice to hear from a beautiful girl WHY it's working on her and WHAT she's thinking. That and her wing-girl Dassy prefers Asian men and that's always a plus in my book! KEZIA NOBLE'S ANSWER: "First thing I would teach him is 'to perfect his body language' simply because this is exactly what I teach all the students who come to me with no skills. Perfecting body language is the same as behavioural therapy, which I am a great believer of, and it is something which has helped my students a lot. Once you create the ideal confident body language, from position of legs all the way to facial expression and eye contact, you literally change your INNER state as a result. Literally our actions shape our beliefs. When you walk and talk like a confident human being, not only does your internal anxiety disapear rapidily, but you also become that confident person.As a result your energy that you give off changes too, and this is one of the first things a girl pick up on."
- Vince Kelvin (Seduction Coaching) -
I was first introduced to Vince Kelvin through Johnny Wolf when they started holding the annual PUA Summit in Hollywood. Through that long and intense weekend, I vividly remember thinking, "How the hell does these little man with a funny European accent have SO MUCH ENERGY??!" Vince is a freaking terminator and dynamo. Recently we shared a hotel and spoke at the Sydney PUA Summit and let me tell you, Vince Kelvin has no Approach Anxiety whatsoever and is completely fearless not to mention genuinely caring and fun. VINCE KELVIN'S ANSWER: "If a man had amnesia, I would first teach him [is that] (1) Every reason why you shouldn't or couldn't talk to a girl is nothing but a convenient excuse! (2) Everything a women says or does you can use to your own advantage!"
- James Marshall (The Natural Lifestyles) – I met James Marshall at the Australian Master Class Tour where we also took time to do a video about Natural Game. We've done several tradeshows together and both Gareth Jones and I have had the pleasure of his gracious hospitality in crashing at his place and being introduced to his circle of amazing friends, staff, and beautiful girls.JAMES MARSHALL'S ANSWER: "Firstly, great question. Nothing like stripping everything away to ground level to make you think about what is really important. I would teach my amnesiac Casanova to do the following: Watch everyone closely. Watch the way they walk, the way they look at each other, how they dress and how they react to each other. Look at how women respond to men, the more precisely and detailed the better. The secrets to seduction lie in awareness. Watch yourself internally, how you react, the patterns of your thoughts, your excuses and realise they are not you, just passing patterns. Watch carefully the social world around you, without preconception and the matrix starts to become apparent. My Gong Fu teacher in China once told me: "At first sight of the enemy, do nothing. Next gather reconnaissance. Finally, act-never bluff". In other words, awareness, understanding, action. It's all there, the rest is just details."
- Keychain (Love Systems) -
I met Keychain while speaking at the Real Man Conference where we shared a hotel room. We spoke about the books we liked to read, music, how to sneak past customs, had a proper pint at a proper British pub and I've even had the opportunity to listen to him play. Keychain has always been gracious enough with an open offer to crash at his pad in London, but each time I go over, I always end up shacking up with a beautiful London girl for the weekend. KEYCHAIN'S ANSWER: "Live a full life. Engage in your career, take care of your body,invest in the people around you and pursue your passions. The rest will take care of itself."
- Johnny Soporno (Worthy Playboy) – One of the more interesting and flavorful characters in the industry, Johnny Soporno invited us out to these porn star club parties in Los Angeles. We've done the tradeshows together and I've had the privilege of hanging with him out in Toronto. At the very least, I find his personal philosophy on women and sex to be absolutely fascinating. JOHNNY SOPORNO'S ANSWER: "If I lost my memory, the very first thing I'd want to relearn would be how to spot a woman in 'estrus' (ovulating/in heat), because once you can identify them, you don't need any Game at all, just happy self-satisfaction, and the comfort to approach and say "Hey!" without averting your eyes while you're walking over. When the woman is ovulating, she's not looking for Mister Right, she'll take Mister Right-Now!"
- RedPoleQ (PickUp Asia) -
I've hung out with RedPoleQ during the Australian Master Class Tour where we did a video on his tactics on picking up Asian girls. We've had a lot of fun sarging Sydney together and he was an incredible sport taking caring of a grenade while I took my girl behind the store. REDPOLEQ'S ANSWER: "I would tell him to learn martial arts and get into a real ring fight. Seriously. Could be Kung-fu, or Boxing, or MMA. Doesn't matter.Rationale being this, if he lost all his memory, the first thing he needs is to regain his sense of identity … stop thinking and get his "killer" masculine instinct back. Really, I can think of no way besides getting him to fight,be in tune with himself, his sense of self and his body. Not to mention his confidence.After that, it gets easy. All we're talking about is some skills.But identity and grounding before skills … and considering he forgot everything – i'll get him to fight.I know for me, learning martial arts was a big part of my development. Pushing my body to its limits, getting beat up, knocked out and then getting back up again–just deciding to get in the ring with someone who was trying to bash my brains in is a lot like dealing with AA.I think that's one reason I was able to deal with AA and move on to the rest of my game so quickly."
- Speer (Speer Method) -
I met Speer out in Miami while I was running a Miami bootcamp. For having never once met, Speer was a very gracious host about town, proudly showing us his beautiful city, driving us around, and giving us the scoop on the best places to go. A big proponent of lifestyle game, I recently spoke at Speer's Global Pickup Conference. SPEER'S ANSWER: "I would teach a man to love himself, go out, have a good time and enjoy his lifestyle. All the things listed above break down into one thing – enjoying ones lifestyle. You see the problem stems from low self esteem and an lack of "Lifestyle Gravity". Most people even with a solid lifestyle can't share it for a lack of understanding the principals it takes to effectivly communicate it without sounding like they are bragging. Lifestyle Gravity – a force that makes people gravitate into your life. Primarily based on the way you live and the vibe you send out."
- Adam Lyons (PUA Training) - I met Adam at one of the many tradeshows where we did a video and we keep on running into each whether it's for a PUA conference or we're both coincidentally running a bootcamp in London. Married to the beautiful Amanda Lyons (a native Dallasite like myself), Adam Lyons is a genuinely good guy with incredible motivational speaking skills. Yes, he is British, but I forgive for him that. ADAM LYON'S ANSWER: "If a man got amnesia and lost all of his pick up and seduction skills tomorrow, the first thing I would teach him is to make female friends. I would teach him that it is not about hitting on women right away or having sex with them, but to concentrate on having a healthy social ife. This would be taught in a multi-platform approach. The first thing would be to join a program or group that has classes with girls. For example, a gym that has yoga, dance classes, cardio kickboxing, etc. Or a comedy group, acting class, painting class, lazer tag league… It can be anything. The next step would be to organize an event that would then lead up to it being a singles event. For example, speed dating would work. You can spread the word about this through friends and word of mouth, putting out a Facebook blast, making a Meetup.com group and telling everyone to bring more people to ensure it is a success.The last thing I would teach him would be to go out and about in bars and clubs. Once he has a solid foundation of friends and women in his life it would then make sense to go out to meet new people. They would already add to his social circle and fit with the aim of having a female heavy life. I would make sure he then knew to sexually escalate on all of the new girls to have them appreciate him as a touchy feely person who is in touch with his sexuality. Then he can use that basis and preselection to date who he wants to date."


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Death of Page's occult curator.
Malcolm Dent moved to the Highlands with the Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin, English pop music group formed in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page (1944–), singer Robert Plant (1948–), bassist John Paul Jones (1946–), and drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham (1948–80). guitarist in 1971 when Page bought Boleskine House For Boleskine shinty team, see Boleskine Camanachd
Boleskine House (boll-ESS-kin) was the estate of Aleister Crowley from 1899 to 1913. It is located on the South-Eastern shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. , the former home of self-styled Satanist Aleister Crowley.
Dent, 67, was curator of the property for 20 years.
The 14-roomed mansion at Loch Ness has become a Mecca for occult followers since Crowley - known as the Beast of Boleskine - died in 1947.
During his time at the house, Dent claimed to have witnessed chairs moving by themselves and rugs piling up overnight.
Page sold the house in the early 1990s.
Latterly, Dent worked as a volunteer, recording talking newspapers for the Highlands and Islands The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are broadly the Scottish Highlands plus Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides.
The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied. Tape Service for the Blind and Disabled.
He died after a long illness, at the Highland Hospice, Inverness, He lived at Kilmuir, North Kessock, and is survived by his children Uraina and Malcolm.
The funeral was private and took place in Inverness yesterday.
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05:31:19 PM Nov 23rd 2014
Does anybody else think some of those restaurant examples should be removed? Amy's Baking Company is probably fine (although it
seem to be getting an ironic fandom thanks to its appearance on Kitchen Nightmares), but I don't see anything about Nello that would qualify it as this trope. One negative review does not make a restaurant
So Bad Its Horrible
, especially since the restaurant's user reviews on sites like Yelp.com seem to indicate that the food falls more under
So Okay, It's Average
. And, as for the ridiculous prices, I think using that as an argument violates the condition of "merely being offensive" not being enough. Same for the Captain John's example (plus, if the restaurant
to be good, then I would think that if anything it belongs under something like
Fallen Creator
Not so sure about the TGI Friday's example, since the arguments/complaints certainly seem to qualify it, but given that Friday's is a chain...
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07:29:53 AM Nov 19th 2014
Anyone interested in adding the Potato Express? The infomercial is deceiving and the product will leave potatoes raw in the middle after their suggested four minute cooking time. With a busted insulation system, the fabric getting disgustingly wet after a single use, and failure to cook potatoes in the advertised time I think it qualifies.
Here's Mike J's thoughts on it if you need more info.
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08:08:13 AM Jun 23rd 2014
We should add
Jesus Is Savior
.Com to websites. Badly thought out arguments, plain lies and bad design abounds.
07:42:21 AM Sep 1st 2014
I agree.
09:19:43 AM Sep 1st 2014
Seems like a case for inclusion. We'll need a somewhat detailed writeup, of course.
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10:43:33 PM Jun 21st 2014
Here's hydrixes attempt to recreate a Web Video section:
Web Videos
All Beiber Haters Suck
s video called
"larmankiller sucks and Justin Bieber rules"
might possibly be the worst case of trying to be a
Moral Guardian
on the internet . Aside from the fact that he makes spelling errors constantly, he also outright insults the
Justin Bieber
fanbase's own intelligence (by saying that he does not even know who Walt Disney is). He also makes insults during other fanbases during the mean time (such as saying that Mickey Mouse has always been for preschoolers), does use some extreme Fridge Logic (such as when he said that larkmankiller brainwashed a former belieber named omegadeltazero2 with powder) and comes off as extremely hypocrite (he criticizes larkmankiller for not showing his face, but the creator of the video (All Justin Beiber Haters Suck) only showed text during the entire video). With all that in mind, it should not suprize that it is one of the rare youtube video's with 0 likes.
"all justin bieber haters suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
. This is a video in which the creator (bieberluvr1234) adresses the haters of
Justin Bieber
and says that they should stop hating on Justin Bieber. Aside from having no actual arguments provided (the only thing she said was that his music was good {which she showed my letting the audience show a music video of him within the awful video quality she had} and that he looks beautiful, which is very subjective to begin with), she also outright insults the haters of Jusin Bieber(especially the female ones) (for being lesbian, fat and ugly). At times she even goes completely out of character.
top 11 wario master in disguise bosses
just has to be on here because it is so boring to watch. He talks so slowly and
points out even the most obvious of obvious
. It could have been a decent list because of its decent choices and reasoning, but all of the above problems just make it painful to watch or listen to.
is already a
controversial Let's Player
, but he set himself a new low with his
2013 Christmas special
, a
Grinch parody
which serves as nothing more than a ego-stroking
middle finger
directed at his
. The video is filled with
horrible rhyming
, juvenile insults, and acting and costuming that makes even
Chris Bores
look moderately professional. Phil's detractors are depicted as
who are jealous of Phil's Internet "fame" (using the word
) and make "shitting on him the goal of their lives" by flagging all his videos and making long montages of him failing. This is followed by an awful
song and dance number
that not only has atrocious singing and lyrics with even
terrible rhymes (ie. he rhymes
"trolling" with "wife"
), but outright
his detractors ("If I could choose between being filthy rich or going back in time to prevent your birth, fill up the
~!"). Phil then goes full-on
Gary Stu
when he reads encouraging Christmas fan mail, complete with a
sappy rendition of "Silent Night"
and a
disclaimer stating that their totally real letters he received
. He then states that gaming is about having fun and not popularity, and that "you'll just be a dick" if you hate on (his) playthroughs. This is
completely undermined
by not only the fact that Phil spends several other videos whining about low views and
non-existent game bugs
, but by the fact that he just made a mean-spirited 9-minute video trashing his haters.
, much?
The TUH!
This is about a little kid that rants about
Toy Story
and is considered to be one of the worst rants ever. No arguments are in sight for this one (although he tries), all he does is starting to formulate what he is trying to say (although failing miserably, as you could guess by the title of this video). After it he plays with a fart soundboard, with still nothing interesting to come out of his mouth. It should come as no suprise that after him saying to himself that what he did was rude that he said without reason that Toy Story needs to die.
The Pissed Off Angry Gamer has made three video's. All of them so awful that they deserve to be mentioned here.
of the
(which he calls the shitbox 360). The intro is already 1 minutes and 30 seconds long, but it just gets worse, up to degrees that few people can comprehend what he is saying. The line at the end could have saved it, but it is completely undermined by the fact that the game and the consoles he reviewed were not even that bad to begin with.
of the Nintendo
(which he calls the nintendo shitcube). Not only is the video quality very
awful, but so is the video itself. He needs an overly long time to form his phrases, destroys his console at the end of the video without you even being able to understand why and does inexplicable Critical Research Failure (such as saying that nobody will defend the nintendo shitcube).
of Contra 4 is however easily his worst. He shows you only briefly the game and tells you that he hates this game just because it does not have a Multiple Lives cheat code and that you have limited lives. Than he proceeds to eat the cartridge in a very terribly photoshopped manner. Thankfully he falls from his chair at the end of the video.
The first season of Crtl + Alt + Del: The Animated series
. While season 2 has a few half-decent episodes (only from 1 to 3) and moments in its own right (which were few and far between after the third episode), the episodes of the first season are just awful beyond belief. The animation could already have been done with microsoft paint and powerpoint, but most episodes also it suffers from the main character (Ethan) being the kind of jerk the
Your mom hates Dead Space commercials were designed for
and the other characters having no comedic value whatsoever. Any kind of actually decent plot even suffers from the fact that most episodes only air for 5 minutes (there are only 2 exceptions, episode 6 & 7 which shows Ethan at his very worst and episodes 10, 11 and 12 whose plot is blatantly ripping off
Star Wars
. The other episodes (those not involving Ethan) are just as bad, with episode 5 being random takes and unfunny pot shots and episode 9 showing some of the very worst visual humor ever.
Pimpinmast3r DX
is considered to be one of the worst ranters and one of the worst countdown artists ever made. His output clearly shows why.
rant about anime
. Not only is he confusing
, but his arguments on both matters are poorly valid. It seems still tolerable though, until he says how he thinks an ideal anime should look like,
which should ba about a pretty boy on a motorcycle who gets to hang out with some pretty girls
Top 10: The Worst Consoles of All Time
shows some of the most insulting
Crititcal Research Failure
ever, the list itself is awfully strucured with some good consoles tied up with a few bad ones and his voice is undeniably annoying and he even starts singing wit hit.
Top 10 Worst Games Ever
is just unbelievably offensive. His list shows lots of good games which he only put on here because he sees
his opinion as a fact
tied up with only a few bad ones.
While smackaderp is a decent youtube channel, you will have to find hard to see anyone who defends his
top 10 most overrated games
. The whole countdown is nothing more than a mixture of obtuse
Fridge Logic
, stuff that he said just because someone else said it and spots on list with them having no information whatsoever. Combine this with painful visuals and you have a recipe that fits this trope well.
Sponge Bob Shiting Plz
has made some really bad videos.
is just one of them. He shows a clear list of pretty good shows all which have reached a respectable level of fame. Not only does he show only 39 shows, but the real kicker is the final statement
Spongebob is the only best show ever
. A recollection of terrible artwork drawn by the artist himself only for your enjoyment.
superflipper76 is considered to be a great countdown artist. Even so he made some very awful ones early in his career and
Top Ten Worst Video Game Endings
is considered tob e the pinnacle of that. It shows some pretty decent endings, but he keeps just arguing like a devil advocate that those endings are somehow bad. Even
Super Flipper 76
later on said that it was the perfect example of how not to make a countdown.
veryinvalid's review of
Mega Man 9
"Mega Man 9 sucks fucking balls"
is considered to be one of the worst video game reviews of the internet. Already the "intro" of the video (which features him twisting around with his balls, a random shot of his hair and him
Flipping the Bird
in slow motion shows that you are going to see something horrible, but it just gets worse from there. Later on in his video he keeps talking about high school (and ignores his review completely), makes very offensive remarks (such as him saying that he outright does not care how many soldiers died in Iraq). He also died on purpose multiple times and blames the game for all of his mistakes. Worst of all, he says that he is a huge megaman fan at the beginning of the video, but not only does he make errors against the Canon of the series, he also later on states that he outright hates the series. It all ties up so well that at the end of the video he gives the middle finger towards youtube and everyone who watched his video.
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08:18:12 PM Apr 19th 2014
I'd argue that the entry on Haribo jelly beans should be at least rethought—the issue isn't strictly related to their product; artificial sweeteners generally cause explosive diarrhea when consumed excessively, and near every brand of sugar-free jelly beans has a warning about it.
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11:58:00 AM Apr 17th 2014
Does my entry really insults Sweden's culture:
Surströmming is considered one of the most disgusting foods of all time and is especially infamous for its horrible smell. Surströmming is a fermented rotting fish in a can produced in Sweden that sits in an absolutely disgusting smelling juice. The smell is so bad, that most people throw up just by smelling it. It's so bad, that
refuses to taste it
let alone open a can of it.
03:59:23 PM May 9th 2014
Not to me...
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03:42:45 PM Mar 12th 2014
Would these two blogs qualify as So Bad, It's Horrible?
The author establishes himself as a prick (he's like Caustic Critics such as the Angry Video Game Nerd and the Nostalgia Critic, except totally unlikeable and completely unfunny), and the blogs are larded with some rather questionable choices (Toy Story?!? WTF?!?) to pick on.
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09:37:34 PM Jan 6th 2014
Is this really necessary to have here? It (and the folder it is contained within) seems like nothing more than a retread of the Real Life section of
Crappy Carnival
. Did we not relocate Horrible/Cars to the real life section of
The Alleged Car
for this same exact reason?
Lapland New Forest
, which opened briefly in the United Kingdom in December 2008. Visitors to their website were promised a spectacular Christmas experience, only to find a bare field with a handful of overpriced rides and concessions, a broken ice rink, and entertainers in unconvincing snowman and elf outfits - all after paying theme park prices for tickets. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in numerous credit card chargebacks and a fraud conviction for the park's owners, not to mention Santa and his helpers being beaten up by angry guests. The director is also becoming an example of
Never My Fault
, blaming the park's failure on crowd manipulation and slanderous media. The
Other Wiki
even states that the attractions largely consisted of a single billboard depicting the nativity, lights dangling from trees, mistreated animals in chains, a broken ice rink, empty garden sheds (previously described as log cabins by the website) and a very poorly decorated Santa's grotto.
04:16:32 PM Mar 24th 2014
Deleted it.
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10:47:31 AM Nov 4th 2013
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Question — can conventions be put under the "other" heading for the So Bad It's Horrible trope? Or is that just begging for a flame war? I notice restaurants got removed from the Horrible page, so I wasn't sure if adding Las Pegasus Unicon 2013 would be acceptable or not...
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02:24:01 AM Feb 24th 2013
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Anyone else think we should put the Westboro Baptist Church under organistations? Y'know, that group of nutters who picket people's funerals waving around signs saying things like 'Thank god for 9/11' and 'Fags die, god laughs.'
10:54:37 PM Apr 30th 2013
Sorry for the late reply, but no. No real-life organizations, especially groups like WBC. It's just a flame war waiting to happen. I don't agree with their politics or methods, but any real-life anything getting declared SBIH should not happen.
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05:31:53 PM Jan 24th 2013
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For Apps, should we remove the apps that are games? As it is, I see a
Super Mario 3D Land
game on both here and the
Video Games
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02:05:09 AM Dec 31st 2012
Cutting this and putting it here for now. Judging by
videos, it's not that bad.
The live show based on
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
. Most fans really despise it. First off,
none of the voice actress reprise they role.
Only Applejack, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash appeared in this live show. The costume are horrible too. Look at their rear hoof, it looks like there's only one actor wearing each costume.
And do you know that Applejack insulting Rainbow Dash by calling her Rainbow Crash in the Live Show?
08:06:00 PM Dec 31st 2012
Whoops, I should put it to the theater page instead.
Still, most peoples on Youtube complain about how childish even was compare to the show itself. Their rear legs looks broken, only Twilight Sparkle, Applejack and Rainbow Dash appear.
And the voices.
It have more than 2,000 dislike out of 1,000 likes. Even those who like are those who find it
So Bad, It's Good
. .... I guess only
Newborn Uglies
deserve to be
So Bad Its Horrible
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The two Lovelock men also agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor citation in state court for failure to visit their steel leg-hold traps within 96 hours.
They could have been returned to prison because they violated conditions of their parole stemming from the 2009 killing of five wild horses. But McQuaid agreed to continue the parole for the final three weeks it's in effect.
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MINNEAPOLIS >> The Minnesota Twins arenĺt used to scoring runs like this.
Kennys Vargas drove in a career-high five and Joe Mauer had three RBIs to help Yohan Pino win his first start in more than a month as Minnesota beat the Detroit Tigers 12-4 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader Saturday.
Asked if his team saved any runs for the nightcap, Mauer said: ôI hope so. Thereĺs plenty of them out there, right?ö
Vargas went 2 for 4 with two doubles and a sacrifice fly. The rookie has 22 RBIs in his first 21 major league games since making his debut on Aug. 1 Ś the most in a big league playerĺs first 21 games since Albert Pujols had 22 in April 2001.
ôHe puts together good at-bats and is driving some runs in,ö Mauer said, ôso thatĺs always nice to see.ö
Right now, the entire Twins lineup is putting together good at-bats. The teamĺs 32 runs in the last two games is its most in consecutive games since 2007 and three short of the club record set in 1996.
ôItĺs a better feeling because of that, but we also go through those stretches where we donĺt do anything and itĺs not a good feeling, so weĺve just got to get consistent,ö manager Ron Gardenhire said. ôIĺll consistently take this number of runs every day.ö
Minnesota scored seven runs off starter Buck Farmer (0-1), who lasted just 1 1-3 innings and ran his ERA to 15.63 in his second career start. A day after watching Tigers pitchers give up 20 runs on a combined 214 pitches, Farmer allowed six runs in the second as the Twins batted around for the third time in nine innings.
ôEverything just started going downhill and I couldnĺt recover from it,ö Farmer said.
Vargasĺ double off Pat McCoy scored Mauer to make it 7-1, giving Pino (2-5) a nice cushion. Pino worked five innings, allowing four runs Ś one earned Ś and six hits while striking out six.
The Tigers scored three unearned runs off Pino in the fifth after a bad throw by second baseman Brian Dozier allowed Nick Castellanos to reach second. Ian Kinsler, Ezequiel Carrera and Miguel Cabrera all singled to pull Detroit to 9-4.
Vargasĺ three-run double in the seventh off reliever Kyle Lobstein made it 12-4.
ôHeĺs swung the bat well from the right side, and thatĺs supposed to be his weaker side,ö Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said of Vargas. ôHeĺs looked good. I know itĺs only a couple games, but it seems like their entire lineup looks good to me.ö
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Tigers: Ausmus said RHPs Anibal Sanchez and Joakim Soria were scheduled to throw in the bullpen between games. Sanchez has been on the disabled list since Aug. 9 with a strained right pectoral muscle. Soria has been out since Aug. 10 with a strained left oblique.
Ausmus also said utility man Don Kelly still needs treatment for a shoulder injury from April when he slammed into a wall during a road trip in San Diego. Had it not been for that, Ausmus said Kelly might have been called on to relieve SS Andrew Romine on the mound during Friday nightĺs 20-6 loss. Ausmus said Romine, who threw 27 pitches, was about one hitter from being relieved by C Bryan Holaday. ôI texted Romine this morning because heĺs in the lineup and I wanted to make sure he could pick his arm up before I put him at shortstop,ö Ausmus said.
Twins: Mauer is still receiving daily treatment for the strained oblique that caused him to miss 34 games. Heĺs hitting .357 since coming off the DL on Aug. 11. ôI feel good. Iĺm seeing the ball well. I think Iĺve said over and over, just trying not to do too much and itĺs been working,ö he said.
Justin Verlander (10-11) and the Tigers both try to snap two-game losing streaks in the second game of the doubleheader. Verlander was 4-0 in his last six starts at Target Field. Twins starter Trevor May (0-2) tries for his first major league victory in his third career start.
Twins OF Oswaldo Arcia spent Friday night at the hospital with his wife and sick newborn son. ôEverythingĺs fine. The babyĺs fine,ö said Gardenhire, who sat Arcia in the first game. ôHeĺs a little gassed right now. He got about less than an hour of sleep last night.ö


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Today I'm going to walk you through my data backup strategies at home and in the field. This is in response to a listener question from someone that heard me talking about this briefly on This Week in Photo. I should precede this with the disclaimer that I'm perhaps a little bit paranoid with my backups, but I should also add that I've never lost an image in 18 years of digital imaging, and that includes scans of slide film from way back when.
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I've been running behind a little this week too, hoping to release an Iceland update a little earlier, but I've been struggling with some new software that I had hoped to use to show you my new Iceland portfolio images with. It's almost ready now, and you can see my selected 50 shots on my site already, although I need a little more time to finesse the presentation. If you want a sneak preview, go to http://mbp.ac/iceland2013, and click the little arrow at the bottom right of the gallery to view the images full-screen.
So, before we jump into my backup strategies, I'd like to talk about how I synchronize my files between the various hard drives that I'll discuss. When I first switched to the Mac OS, I initially used a product called Sync, Sync, Sync, but a couple of serious bugs introduced via upgrades and a few corrupted files that were possibly caused by this application got me looking for a new solution about six months ago, and what I decided on was an application that I've been very happy with, called ChronoSync.
ChronoSync is very powerful, and can be used to create all kinds of synchronization jobs. I'm not going to go into details today, but you can specify various types of Synchronization jobs, some of which could result in your deleting files by mistake if you don't understand how a specific synchronization type works, so you have to be careful with applications like this, but as long as you read the help and set things up correctly, ChronoSync will serve you well. Another great thing about ChronoSync though is that you can click the Trial Sync button, and it will throw up a dialog that will tell you exactly what will be copied, what will be deleted and everything like that, so you can check your sync jobs before you actually run them.
Here's a screenshot of one of my Sync jobs, which I use to synchronize my September 2013 raw files from my MacBook Pro drive to my Drobo 5D. I've selected Mirror Left-to-Right as the synchronization type, so that anything I delete from my local hard drive as I edit, is also deleted from my backup when I sync the two. You can also select to move deleted files to an archive folder if you don't want to risk automatically deleting something by mistake.
The other good thing about ChronoSync is that you can create Containers that are basically batches of Sync jobs, so for example, I have one Container that holds all of the Sync jobs that I run between my two Drobos, so when I'm ready to sync, I can run individual jobs, or just run the entire batch, syncing everything that I've built individual sync jobs for.
On Windows, I used to use Robocopy, which is included in the operating system to sync between files. I created text based command files that I would just double click to run the sync jobs, and the result was very much what ChronoSync is doing, but without the interface and ease of configuration. You basically have to read the help and figure out all the commands you need, and write the scripts yourself with Robocopy. It's not difficult, but it's too complicated to try and cover here, especially as I no longer use it.
So, when I talk about running a sync job, or synchronizing between drives today, just understand that I'm talking about running a ChronoSync task, but this could be whatever you chose to use to synchronize between your own storage solutions. Another thing to note though, is that I do not recommend manually moving files around.
Manually copying files is OK for an initial backup, like say when you get home from a trip, and just copy an entire directory structure to your main hard drive, but once you have to start doing incremental backups to save changed images and deletions, any new files you create for black and white versions or other edited images to your backup drive, it quickly becomes a pain to do this manually, and it's error prone. Do find and use a good synchronization solution for this part of your workflow.
Let's first touch on how I organize and access my images at home, and then how I back up my images. Initially, every photograph I shoot is first copied to the solid state drive in my MacBook Pro. Because of this, I always get the largest internal drive I can afford when I buy a new computer, so my MacBook Pro Retinal has a 750GB solid state drive installed. This generally enables me to save all of each months images locally, before I clean that out as I move into the following month.
It's totally up to you how you organize your images, but for me, having everything in a three layer year, month and day structure works well, especially when backing up. I've seen people that use location based folder names, but that relies on you remembering what you've already backed up and what you have not, or manually comparing your backups etc. which is error prone, not to mention a pain.
If everything for this year is under 2013, and everything for September say is in a directory named 09, each in their own day numbered folders, it's really easy to check that you are backed up. With the keywording and collections that we now have in Lightroom and other media management software, it really isn't necessary to include the location or shoot name in the folder structure, unless you have some sort of process imposed on you at a workplace or something.
Anyway, I shoot away for the current month, and create a Sync job for that month that I can run after each shoot, and that automatically copies all of my images, including any changes or deletions to my main storage, which is now a Drobo 5D. This is connected to my MacBook Pro, which is currently my main computer, via Thunderbolt. The Drobo 5D with an mSATA SSD Accelerator drive installed is lightening fast. It's almost as fast as the internal SSD drive in my MacBook Pro, so backups are very fast, even with 100+ Gigabytes of data.
Now, I know that Drobos provide a certain amount of redundancy/fault tolerance, in that with my current configuration, if one hard drive fails, I can pull it out, and replace it, and my data will be safe, but I've had a drive fail, and with the amount of data I have stored, which is currenly 5.12TB, it takes two to three days to rebuild the data once you put the new hard drive in. That means there is a two to three day window in which a second failed drive would cost me all of my data, and I don't want to take that risk.
So, I have two Drobos, basically one is a copy of the other, but there is a second very important reason for having that second Drobo, which is Cloud Storage. My second Drobo, a 2nd Generation USB connected four bay Drobo, is connected to my old MacBook Pro, on which I have Backblaze installed. Backblaze currently costs just $50 per year, or $95 for two years, and that is for unlimited storage. As I say, I have over 5 terabytes of data and every byte of that is uploaded to Backblaze, so if I lose any files, I can download them from Backblaze at any time, and that has happened in the past.
I did a portrait shoot for a client and when I came to work on some prints for them, I found one of the images was corrupted. I believe, though I can't prove, that this was caused by my last synchronization application during a few synchronization back and forth, so all of my backups were corrupted. Of course, the Backblaze copy was also corrupt, but Backblaze keeps up to four weeks of versions of files, and because I found this issue within a few weeks, I was able to roll-back to an uncorrupted version of the image file.
Had I gone past the four weeks, I'd have lost the file and had to deal with the embarrassing task of telling my client that I lost one of their precious portrait images, so it's important to ensure that things don't get corrupted, and that is why I switched synchronization software and touch-wood, nothing has been corrupted since.
So, to recap, my main workflow at home is to shoot for a month, keeping everything on my MacBook Pro, and then after each shoot everything gets backed up first to a Drobo 5D connected via Thunderbolt, and then a second backup is done over the network to a second Drobo connected via USB to my old MacBook Pro. As long as my Backblaze backup is up to date, I can usually backup around 20GB of data per day, so unless I have done a really big shoot, I'm usually backed up in the cloud too within about 24 hours.
Once I've finished processing each month's images usually within the first week or so of the following month, I run one last synchronization from my local MacBook Pro drive to the Drobos, then I delete the images from the local drive. At that point, Lightroom sees that the local images are missing, and I point it to the new month directory on the Drobo 5D, and continue to access my images as normal.
I also catalog the images on my old Drobo over the network, so if I need anything while I'm not at my desk with the Drobo 5D plugged in, I can still access it over the network from anywhere in the house. This is important as if you recall, my office and studio are on the 3rd floor of our apartment, and our living space is on the second floor, and so I don't spend too much time in the studio, I work from our living room or dining table for a while after breakfast, and then in the evenings, and it's nice to be able to get to stuff over the network if I need to.
That's my basic home/office workflow, but now let's look at what I do when I'm traveling. Right now I use four portable hard drives in the following way. I have two 2TB Western Digital My Passport Studio drives that are my main backups in the field. These are the two drives stacked together in this image (below).
Every day when I get to the hotel, I transfer all of my images to my local hard drive first. Then, I synchronize that to my first 2TB hard disk. I usually try to do at least this much before dinner, and I put the 2TB drive in my pocket before I leave the room. If I don't have time for that, I still put the drive in my pocket because it contains all the previous days backups, but I also put the compact flash cards from that day in my pocket too, rather than leaving them in the hotel room.
Once I get back to the room after dinner, if I have shot any video on my GoPros that day, I back them up to a third 1TB hard drive, that I connect to the computer via Thunderbolt. This is the white Buffalo drive that you can see to the left in this photo. This isn't much faster than the Firewire Drives though, because it's a slow 2.5in hard drive. Thunderbolt is kind of wasted on standard 2.5in hard drives, which I guessed would be the case, but I bought this to try it anyway. I won't buy any more unless they boast very fast hard drive speeds to keep up with Thunderbolt. In fact, I think if I buy anything else for portable backups, it will probably be a Drobo Mini, because they have the same SSD acceleration that the Drobo 5D uses, and that screams along.
Once I have my video backed up to my 1TB hard drive, I run a synchronization between that drive and my first 2TB hard drive, and then, I synchronize my first 2TB hard drive with the second 2TB hard drive. That gives me my two backups in the field, so if I need to, I can delete the images from the local hard drive, although I try to avoid this if at all possible. As I mentioned earlier, I have a 750GB internal solid state drive so I can usually shoot for around three to four weeks before I have to start deleting stuff. This is also why I backup my video straight to an external drive, as I'd fill up my local drive too quickly otherwise.
Finally, usually before I go to sleep, I plugin my fourth portable hard drive to my computer, that you can see at the back in this photo (above), which is my portable Time Machine backup. This means that until I delete anything from the local hard drive, I actually have four copies of everything while traveling. This is enough to keep me happy.
Note that for the last few versions of the Mac OS, you can now have multiple time machines. In the photo here (above) you can also see a Belkin Thunderbolt hub, into which I basically plug everything, including my Drobo 5D which chains to my external monitor via Thunderbolt, and all of my other USB3.0 and USB2.0 devices, as well as my Firewire card reader, Wacom tablet and speakers etc. all plug into this, so when I sit at my desk, I actually only have to plug in the power to the MacBook Pro, and one thunderbolt cable, and everything just connects. The reason I mention this is because I also have a USB3.0 external hard drive attached to this hub, which continuously updates a Time Machine backup of my computer when I'm at my desk. The portable Time Machine copy is only used when traveling.
The main thing to note about these hard disks now, is that I always carry my main 2TB backup disk with me everywhere when I'm traveling. It not only goes to dinner with me, but it stays in my photographer's vest all day long. When possible, I also carry my 1TB hard drive that you can see at the back of the photo. This disk is very tough, even withstanding a bit of a dunk in water if necessary, so as long as I haven't deleted my local copy of my images, they are all in there, inside my Time Machine backup, so if I lost my computer, I could get all my information back, including mail and other personal data to the point of the last backup.
Note too that my 2TB drives are large enough for me to keep a backup of all of what I call my Final images. These are images that I have selected for my portfolios, or stuff that I feel is good enough to show people. If I have done a black and white conversion in Silver Efex Pro for example, I will have the original RAW file, and the converted TIFF or PSD file in my Finals folders too. These are organized by year, so I basically end each year with a new folder, with all of my best shots and original RAW files for that year. This means if I'm traveling and someone needs a few images from me, the chances are I can get them to them from on the road. I can also access all of my RAW files for my best work to give demonstrations of software etc.
I also keep all of my RAW files from every shoot that I do during any given year on this 2TB drive, because when I get home from a big trip, it will take a while for the backups to upload to Backblaze, especially if I have video to upload too. This means that I can carry my hard drive around with me for a while after I get home, and if anything should happen to my house while I'm out, I don't lose all my recent work.
So, one last summary here, I have all of my images, and all of my documents, email, music and everything that I value, all on my Drobo 5D, which is my main storage. That is backed up to a second Drobo and that gets backed up to the cloud using Backblaze. This is three copies of all of my data, which is currently 5.12TB and counting. When I travel, I have at least two external backups of my work, as well as a Time Machine backup, in case I lose my computer.
Now that I have this much redundancy in my backups, including the cloud backup, I don't do off-site backups as much as I used to. When I was still in my old day job, I would keep a backup of all my data on a few 3.5 inch hard disks that I would load into an external bay occasionally, and sync from my main data, then take that copy back to the office and just leave it in a drawer. This was still Tokyo though, so every year or so, I would also copy my entire library to a series of old hard drives, and send them to my brother in the UK, and would just store the hard disks somewhere for me.
This is less important to me now that all of my data is in two places at home and the cloud, but when I can, I still like to do this. It's just one more backup that could save my ass if something really nasty happened here in Japan, at the same time as Backblaze turning pear-shaped, although I can never see that happening. Realistically though, if anything did happen to my local backups, I'd probably request a my data to be sent to me on hard disks from Backblaze rather than my brother, as the copies he has area never going to include my latest work.
As I said, I might be a little bit paranoid about my backups, but if even a part of what I do gives you a hint on how you might improve your own backup strategy, that's great. The most important thing to remember is that all hard drives fail at some point, so you should never trust your images in just one place. The minimum you should do is backup to an external hard drive, and if possible, make a backup of that to keep away from your home, or sign up for a Backblaze account or a similar service, and ensure that your precious images are also backed up in the cloud.
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Great point about the caching SSD. No idea it would go down so quickly. Your 2 and 3 the drives are they 7200 rpm? For mobile backup, I use the lacie rugged 7200 rpm with USB 3.0 connection. They get me around 110-120 which I find pleasantly fast for a portable lightweight solution.
The two 3TB drives and two of the 2TB drives are 7200 rpm, but the third 2TB drive is a Western Digital Green drive, which I believe is 5400 rpm. I would get faster speeds with this one faster too, but I'll switch that out soon enough, when I start to replace these 2TB drives with 4TB ones for more space.
I'm still using the 2TB FW800 drives for my mobile backups, as mentioned above. I like the fact that they are 2TB, and the speed is OK-ish, so I'll keep them for a while, but I'm seriously considering the Drobo Mini as my main mobile backup. The only downside is that it needs power, whereas all of my current portable drives don't. Plus, the Drobo Mini is just a bit too big to realistically drop into my photographer's vest and carry with me all the time. I could just carry my 2nd backup around instead though.
Martin, a couple of questions from a fellow paranoid photographer who also loves screaming disk access speed.
1. Do you have any actual data for read and write to your Drobo 5d? I'm getting 330 MB/s on my raid solution and wanted to know if the 5d can approach this.
2. Do you have one Lightroom catalog for all your shoots, every shoot? Do you keep your edits in the same directory as your raws? Sorry if you've discussed this before.
Hi Mark,
I'm not quite getting those speeds from the Drobo 5D. When it was new and empty, I was getting 275 MB/s write and 313 MB/s read speeds. This is with 64GB Crucial mSATA SSD Acceleration.
Now, with over 5TB of data loaded, it has dropped slightly to 193 MB/s write and 294 MB/s read speeds, when connected directly to my MacBook Pro Retina. Connected through the Belkin Thunderbolt hub, I get 187 MB/s write and 270 MB/s read speeds.
These speeds don't really change when I daisy chain a 24″ external display from the back of the Drobo 5D or whatever else I connect to the Belkin hub. The difference is small enough that I prefer to just put everything through the Belkin hub.
Yes, I have just one Lightroom catalog for everything. All shoots, and multiple copies of the same photos on different drives. And yes, I keep all of my initial edited images in the same directory as my RAW files. Once I have finished my editing, I copy all the final selection images and their original RAW file (if I made a copy for a black and white conversion etc.) to a new directory that I call my Finals. This directory contains folders for each year, so I'm currently at 2013. I might continue to add keywords or change titles etc. on my Finals copy, and I don't go back to the original folder to update that, once I have my final selection images in my Finals folder.
I hope that helps.
Hi Martin. Thanks for your quick and extensive answer. I'm happy to see the 5d perform at this speed. That's a tremendous improvement over the previous generation. I can only imagine what speed the mini with nothing but SSD drives can obtain then.
Wrt Lightroom and edits, I'm doing exactly the same and I guess I was kinda looking for confirmation by one of the industry leaders.
I don't know about the industry leader part, but you're welcome Mark. I too was pleasantly surprised by the speed of the Drobo 5D.
One other thing to note. The Drobo Tech Support team told me that there is no reason to buy larger than a 64GB SSD for acceleration, but as I use the 64GB SSD, I see the life dropping already to 82%. With the price difference between 64GB and 128GB being so small, I kind of wish I'd gone for larger now, if only to give me more sectors and extend the expected lifespan of the SSD.
Having said that, the 64GB are literally so cheap, that it might be better to just replace this when the life drops close to 0%. I guess we have to think of this SSD as a consumable, like printer ink or something.
Martin, thanks for the great podcast! This episode couldn't have come at a better time as I am trying to get my backup system figured out. I am mostly a wedding photographer in which case a lot of the time I do the couple's engagement shoot one year and then their wedding is the following year. You mentioned how you keep your photos organized by year, month, and then day. If I wanted to keep the couple's engagement photos together with the wedding photos and one is one year and the other is the next year, do you have any suggestions for an organizational system in this case? Or what would you do if you were in my shoes?
Hi Aaron,
I'm pleased this helped.
That's a good question. I would probably approach it in one of two ways, or maybe even both. Assuming the wedding is the more important of the two shoots, I would probably move the engagement shoot to a sub-folder under the wedding folder once the wedding is complete. Then they could be stored together.
Or, you could manage the linkage with Lightroom Collections, if you use Lightroom. This way the files could stay where they are, and you could build a list of all your weddings and engagement shoots in Lightroom, but this would mean that you'd have to also be specially careful about backing up your Lightroom catalog, because Collections only live in the catalog.
You might also want to check what other wedding photographers do though. It almost feels like one of those exceptions that might take you out of my year/month/day structure. Maybe you could use year/month/day for your general shooting, but have all of your wedding shoot files in a different location, and maybe even just index them couple name or something.
If I were to do that though, I'd probably still leave the original raw files in my year/month/day structure, and copy all the final select images to a second, special folder, just for that couple. This is like what I do with my Originals folder and my Finals folder. I end up with two copies of the most important images, even inside of a single backup.
Not really a definitive answer, but this is probably what I'd consider.
Hope it helps!
This is really useful – thanks for this post – it's somewhat very well timed for me. I actually just lost about a terabyte of data on one of my Media Drives. Luckily I have a copy on the cloud at backblaze that I am able to recover. I'm going to use your workflow to help refine my current system.
Thanks for all the information!
Thank heavens for that Backblaze account Nick! Congratulations on getting that set up BEFORE your disaster.
I'm pleased this episode will help you think through your extended strategy.
I've just seen this post via twitter, and think it's really solid advice. I work in a data recovery lab, so see lots of failed drives and this is how I would approach a backup system. It sounds like you backup Mac->Drobo1->Drobo2 but maybe Mac->Drobo1 & Mac->Drobo2 would be safer. If issues happen during the first backup, they wouldn't be transferred to the second Drobo. Of course this is just nitpicking and I think you're safer than anyone I've ever heard of!
Thanks Dan!
For some of my syncs that's actually what I do, but then once my local copy of my images is deleted at the start of the next month, Drobo1 becomes the master copy, so most of my sync jobs are set up to sync from Drobo1 to Drobo2. I can certainly see the value in your suggestion though. If I kept stuff on my local machine longer, I'd probably do that more.
Thanks for stopping by and for the advice!
Martin, when I play the audio from this page it appears to be the audio from a previous blog post (your review of various inkjet papers). Nonetheless, great post and certainly gives me some ideas to improve my own backup system.
Doh! Forgot to update the link. Thanks for letting me know Mylan!


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Dubel Zout!, which translates to Double Salt Licorice, is all its cracked up to be and more! Packed with the salty and sweet combination that candy lovers go coo-coo for, these amazing little morsels of licorice will have you licking your chops for more.
In black little gobs of deliciousness, this Double Salt Licorice comes in a bulk bag and unwrapped so you're free to pour them into cash jars, add some to the top of baked goods, decorate a gingerbread house or just snack on them at will whenever you need a tasty bite of something salt and sweet. Give your mouth a flavor boost today with these Double Salt Licorice candies. Dubel Zout! We just love saying that.
I'm so thrilled that I've finally found a distributor for this weird and delicious candy. Licorice salt-bombs.
Pros: Nobody seems to like it but me.
Cons: Nobody seems to like it but me.


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