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250 mercer (photo)

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250 mercer , originally uploaded by kelco .

Ten Movies I Watched Recently

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A scene from Jacques Tati's amazing Play Time (1967) About a Boy (2002) Driving Lessons (2006) Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes) (1955) The Lady Eve (1941) On the Riviera (1951) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Bottle Shock (2008) Play Time (1967) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) O Lucky Man! (1973) Jules Dassin's remarkable "Du Rififi chez les hommes" (1955)

the edge of the abyss

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the edge of the abyss , originally uploaded by lemurdillo . lemurdillo writes: There's a finger of the monterey submarine canyon that sticks into Carmel Bay, and you can reach it on a shore dive .... but I never had until yesterday. B & I swam out to the "edge of the finger of kelp" like we did a few months ago, but I had neglected to take into account that the kelp had probably grown a bit since then. I was expecting to drop down into about 50' of water, but when we got to around 60' with no bottom in sight, I realized we were probably a bit too far out... We swam back to towards end of the kelp bed and hit the empty sand at about 75' deep. To one side, the kelp forest towering above us... to the other, a gentle slope of sand which then suddenly dropped off, maybe 50 feet away from us. "Dude! it's the trench!!!" B signaled that we really ought to go over and take a look over the side. So we did :) We even went about 30' down over the e

Onion Faces (A Flickr Group)

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Say hello to my little friends , originally uploaded by Jordan Kiley . Group Description: Slices and cross-sections of onions that resemble faces. Only minimal image manipulation please. Manipulated onions are just fine. How's that for an esoteric topic?