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Taipei 101: Winter Views from Elephant Mountain

ByObblogatory June 7, 2024

Taipei 101 as shot on Asus Zenphone II HDR mode, with a few tweaks in Google Photo

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Finding fresh beef in Costco

ByObblogatory June 2, 2024

All Costco beef is imported and therefore frozen. The fresh beef is defrosted before sale. I reckon the pork and chicken probably is, too. Online prices at their app are for frozen delivery typically so consider them the upper band price, ie it won’t be quite as expensive. If you want actual “fresh” prices, I’m…

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Wow I nearly forgot this was a major…

ByObblogatory April 22, 2011

Wow! I nearly forgot this was a major holiday in the WEST! Couldn’t figure out why my stats were terrible on my coffee site, till I realized from Thursday most people are taking a vacation! Lucky them.

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Somewhere in Taipei County

ByObblogatory May 8, 2024

I’m counting the hours until someone tells me that Taipei County changed its name. But TBH this photo was taken in Taipei County. So this is an old Kodak camera photo, initially done in camera in low-res jpg. I upscaled with LR’s new tools, then edited a little more before exporting to SilverFX for edit…