Sam
@sammyzorba.bsky.social
Words. Books. Quotes. Dogs. Horses. All living creatures. Trees! Photography, especially B&W film, painting, drawing. Baseball.
Food: married to a great cook. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people posting about life.
Food: married to a great cook. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people posting about life.
I suspect the artist within endorses and encourages that unique skill.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I suspect the artist within endorses and encourages that unique skill.
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Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”
Yes! I saw that and thought: that can't be right. It seems like months ago.
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Yes! I saw that and thought: that can't be right. It seems like months ago.
Yes game 3 was THE best of that series, even better than game 7, and one of the best World Series games all time.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Yes game 3 was THE best of that series, even better than game 7, and one of the best World Series games all time.
If they're not careful MLB is going to deny access to some of its most ardent fans.
Based on their broadcasts, ESPN doesn't even LIKE baseball. They think it needs to be glammed up with all kinds of "entertaining" features, they don't seem to believe the game itself is sufficient.
Based on their broadcasts, ESPN doesn't even LIKE baseball. They think it needs to be glammed up with all kinds of "entertaining" features, they don't seem to believe the game itself is sufficient.
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If they're not careful MLB is going to deny access to some of its most ardent fans.
Based on their broadcasts, ESPN doesn't even LIKE baseball. They think it needs to be glammed up with all kinds of "entertaining" features, they don't seem to believe the game itself is sufficient.
Based on their broadcasts, ESPN doesn't even LIKE baseball. They think it needs to be glammed up with all kinds of "entertaining" features, they don't seem to believe the game itself is sufficient.
That's too bad, for those of us who like baseball. Best I can tell ESPN ranks baseball behind football, hockey, basketball and doesn't really care for bb, thinks it needs constant interruptions, digressions & entertaining announcing & mostly shows the Yankees, Boston and L.A., excluding 27 teams.
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
That's too bad, for those of us who like baseball. Best I can tell ESPN ranks baseball behind football, hockey, basketball and doesn't really care for bb, thinks it needs constant interruptions, digressions & entertaining announcing & mostly shows the Yankees, Boston and L.A., excluding 27 teams.
I'd be fine to keep using Photoshop and Bridge if they'd let me buy the upgrade as needed, as they used to. But no to subscription, not going to do it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'd be fine to keep using Photoshop and Bridge if they'd let me buy the upgrade as needed, as they used to. But no to subscription, not going to do it.
I still don't know what happened with that, but I almost lost many years worth of items on my Mac, not just photos but biz files, emails, things I've written, caused by Lightroom. I don't understand the mechanics of it but I never used Lightroom again. I've since heard of others that happened to.
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I still don't know what happened with that, but I almost lost many years worth of items on my Mac, not just photos but biz files, emails, things I've written, caused by Lightroom. I don't understand the mechanics of it but I never used Lightroom again. I've since heard of others that happened to.
I'm like Sergio in the comments. Mostly I don't. Had two websites over the yrs, put a few pictures on this site, but I'm not on FB or Insta. Still trying to figure that out. Flicker? Used to enter contests. Had several pictures exhibited here & there, a few published & paid for in The Sun magazine.
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I'm like Sergio in the comments. Mostly I don't. Had two websites over the yrs, put a few pictures on this site, but I'm not on FB or Insta. Still trying to figure that out. Flicker? Used to enter contests. Had several pictures exhibited here & there, a few published & paid for in The Sun magazine.
Use VueScan with old Epson Scanner for flats, don't scan negs, dust defeated me.
Use & really like Adobe Bridge. Use Photoshop CS2, but only about 12 tools, usually only 3 or 4.
Lightroom terrifies me since nearly blowing up my Mac.
Printed in my darkroom for years.
Need to find alt to Adobe.
Use & really like Adobe Bridge. Use Photoshop CS2, but only about 12 tools, usually only 3 or 4.
Lightroom terrifies me since nearly blowing up my Mac.
Printed in my darkroom for years.
Need to find alt to Adobe.
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Use VueScan with old Epson Scanner for flats, don't scan negs, dust defeated me.
Use & really like Adobe Bridge. Use Photoshop CS2, but only about 12 tools, usually only 3 or 4.
Lightroom terrifies me since nearly blowing up my Mac.
Printed in my darkroom for years.
Need to find alt to Adobe.
Use & really like Adobe Bridge. Use Photoshop CS2, but only about 12 tools, usually only 3 or 4.
Lightroom terrifies me since nearly blowing up my Mac.
Printed in my darkroom for years.
Need to find alt to Adobe.
Worse than stupid. Crashed everything. I had just started to like L.R. and almost lost everything on my Mac, not just 15+ years of photos, but unrelated files, emails, writings & biz paperwork. Had to pay a Mac wiz a lot to get most but not all restored. Terrified to ever try Lightroom again.
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Worse than stupid. Crashed everything. I had just started to like L.R. and almost lost everything on my Mac, not just 15+ years of photos, but unrelated files, emails, writings & biz paperwork. Had to pay a Mac wiz a lot to get most but not all restored. Terrified to ever try Lightroom again.
We were just joking to each other that maybe we should eat dirt from the one special spot our dogs constantly go to, eating dirt. Maybe dogs already knew this.
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We were just joking to each other that maybe we should eat dirt from the one special spot our dogs constantly go to, eating dirt. Maybe dogs already knew this.