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Yeah, I agree with you both. They’re kinda cool to look at but I don’t think they have weekly appeal. The fun is in zooming in to see how many “pixels” you recognize and I don’t think anyone’s gonna bother downloading a 30-50MB image just for that.

If I stumble across a fairly easy way to do some kind of a deep zoom thing on the web, I might put up a couple every once in a while. BTW, the effort isn’t in the generation – I wrote an automated tool for it. I’ve just gotta point it at which thumbs to use for the pixel sources and which thumb to generate a mosaic for. So, I’ll leave everyone with one final for now. Here’s a colorful one from orionid from the Glass 2 theme that uses thumbnails from all contests since #200 (about 24,000 thumbnails).

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Very close! They use Camp Billy Joe which is actually a short ways outside the park. I think it’s used as a youth camp during the summer.

That’s about 7 hrs from me, but it’s been on my list for a long time. It’s a long shot as far as availability for me, but if you’re interested in company, let me know when you start thinking about going.

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Holy crap @ dude #20!

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Congrats again to U-Man on the sweep of individual and combined. The Weekly Reports post has been updated with the latest stats.

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Wow, how awesome for, and of, you to do that! So, two things I learned here:

1) Between aspidites’ snow tigers and eagles and now your SA trip, never suggest another wild animal theme.
2) Since I OBO’d for you, I can now say in a wild-stretch-of-the-truth kinda way that I helped build an orphanage in SA. At least, that’s the story I’ll be telling. 😉

My church did something similar in Uganda last year. This year it’s in Thailand for a girls’ shelter. One of these years my wife and I are going to make one of those trips (likely after the youngest is off to college).

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I won’t pretend to know what you’re going through, ’cause I don’t, so just know that you have been missed here and we’re here and pulling for you.

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The photographer in me says “Ooh, nice shots – pretty!” The allergy sufferer in me says, “Fark you, trees!”

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Dangit, don’t say that! I almost almost made that one an A.

Er, I mean, thanks! 🙂

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I see them as well.

Some bees for those interested.

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I agree on both questions – ‘Cuda, your entry looks perfectly acceptable and Yugo, I like the B&W Buick better (it’s got more “character”).

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Here’s a shot of Maggie, our Russel-mongrel mix for comparison… apparently the Corgi has similar coloring, but Mags has the typical medium wiry coat with a short soft undercoat.

Now THAT looks like Smokey (aside from the coloring) – the hair sprouts coming from the snout, the eyebrows, the beard, even the white stripe dividing her face.

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Interesting, Yugoboy. I’m not that familiar with the breed so I always assumed Corgi but that would certainly explain Smokey’s more terrier look.

Bandit’s got the coloring, pronounced chest, and short stocky stature that I always associated with Corgi. She’s got long smooth hair (and lots of it; always shedding) whereas Smokey has short wirey hair that I associated more with a terrier.

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Wow, that really reinforces my thoughts that Bandit must have a bit of Corgi in her:

She was just a normal rescue mutt, no specific breed. Her sister Smokey from the same litter looks nothing like her:

(Not the best shot of her, but the only one I have online and handy.) Smokey looks more Terrier while Bandit looks more Corgi.

Anyway, cute pup!

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Oh and a second place and an eighth just to fill in all the top ten places would be cool. 😆

I’ve been waiting for an 11th place to complete 1-31. For some reason, 11th is quite an elusive place. Only 40% of the contests since I started have even had an 11th.

Anyway, good luck on your quest. Next stop, a win!

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Thanks fluffy.

So, this contest marks the end of the first full quarter (12 contests) under the new voting system. Over this quarter the average # of entrants was 43, average # entries was 104, average total best votes was 1134, and average total funny votes was 215.

Those same numbers for the 4 previous quarters look like this:

Qtr  Entrants  Entries  Votes

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4        50      121   1670

3        65      160   1854

2        64      161   2078

1        62      154   2126

I’m not sure we can attribute the entire drop to the new voting system, but I think it’s safe to say it surely didn’t help.

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