According to John Schinella, only 6 Firebirds left the factory in this color and they were all Formulas. This paint color was initially approved for 1977 but was canceled by GM brass as production started. John Schinella was a big proponent of Nautilus Blue and fought GM to introduce Nautilus Blue on the Firebird in the mid 1970’s. It is a dark blue that is close to Nocturne blue but does not have as much metallic flake or green in it. To many, Nautilus Blue is one of the most beautiful colors ever developed by GM. The data tag on the cowl indicates that the upper and lower colors were Code 29. The most obvious is that it was painted Code 29 Nautilus Blue from the factory. There are several things special about this car. The Trans Am was the more popular car in terms of sales but the Formula was not limited on external colors and provided a bigger canvas that could be customized by the buyer with multiple performance and luxury options. The Formula would have dual scoops and the Trans Am would have a single rear facing shaker scoop. However, due to the popularity of the shaker scoop, Pontiac decided to offer two performance models. According to John Schinella, Bill Davis and Herb Adams who attend the Trans Am Nationals in Dayton, Ohio annually, Pontiac originally wanted to use the dual scoop hood for the Trans Am. The Formula could be optioned with all the performance options that came standard on a Trans Am but the Formula looked more reserved and not as flashy. A buyer could go into a Pontiac dealership and order the base Firebird, Esprit, Formula or Trans Am. Pontiac introduced the Formula as an option of the Firebird in 1970. The car that is the subject of this article is a 1977 Pontiac Firebird Formula that I just purchased from Nevada. It was bone stock but just sitting in the passenger seat watching the shaker hood at idle hooked me instantly. The car was equipped with the base L78 400 engine and automatic transmission. It was Cameo White with a black interior. My older brother, Paul, drove home one day in a super clean 1976 Pontiac Trans Am. What originally attracted to me to Pontiacs happened when I was 14 years old. Whether it was developing a more powerful engine (HO455, SD 455 or the W72 400), special handling packages (RTS and WS6) or exceptional design (GTO, Can Am, Trans Am), Pontiac was at least trying into the 1970’s when other car manufacturers had thrown in the towel. Pontiac didn’t produce the most cars and not every car was a success but looking back at some of the things that Pontiac did makes one appreciate their effort. Even before John DeLorean took over Pontiac as its general manager, the Pontiac Motor Division sought to stand out by offering something special to the car enthusiast.
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Your histogram, analyzing 8-bit data, might think the sky is clipped. ’Consider that video of the Golden Gate Bridge from earlier. Although Lux Optics says it has a more in-depth post in the works on the technology behind XDR Analysis, it sums it up like this in its blog post: Rather than using the post-processed 8-bit data other camera apps do to display the waveform and histogram data, Halide Mark II uses the full 14-bit Raw data, in real time, to calculate the exposure. If you’re using the histogram, waveform or zebra tools while in fully-manual mode, where you adjust the ISO and shutter speed, things get even more powerful thanks to a new feature Lux Optics calls XDR Analysis. This ensures that no matter what color the scene you’re composing is, you can ensure you’re not clipping the highlights or shadows for any three of these channels. Also new is the ‘Color Zebras’ feature, which breaks down three separate color channels - red, blue and green - into individual waveforms with zebra stripes that will appear if certain colors are clipped in either the highlights or the shadows. Well, as with most things in Halide Mark II, both of these have been updated with option to make the overlays smaller on the screen. With Halide 1.0, you were given the option to see both Color and Luminance histograms to ensure you achieved just the right exposure. The app keeps its interface minimal, but when tapping on an icon, a text description of the tool or setting you’re adjusting, as you can see in the below GIF: The manual exposure controls, including ISO and shutter speed, have also been moved and are now accessible with a quick swipe from the right-hand side of the screen. When you let go, the Focus Loupe will disappear and show the usual overlay so you can compose your shot. Now, when manually adjusting focus, a new Focus Loupe will appear in the center of the screen that zooms in to help ensure you get focus just where you want it. Halide Mark II has the same exposure control and focus gestures as before, but has further refined the experience with additional interface elements. Halide Mark II is an entirely new app with a revamped interface designed from the ground up to make a more a user experience that is simple to use, but rich in professional-level features for those who want to get the most out of their iPhone photography. Lux Optics, the company behind the popular iOS camera app Halide, has announced the release of Halide Mark II, a second-generation camera app for iOS that’s the culmination of more than 18 months of work. In Counterpunch, Abby Martin discusses vile terms such as mowing the lawn (mowing down civilians) and other revolting uses of language: "Disturbing Newspeak phrases that absolve their pillaging and mass murder have permeated society and warped our interpretation of reality." That's the essence of newspeak: thought control. Nowadays any kind of baffling or coercive language used by politicians or the media could be labeled newspeak, particularly euphemisms. Their overall purpose is control: That's why newspeak caught on as a term for language that seems determined to stifle thought rather than convey it. Newspeak isn't quite a language: It is a group of mostly compound terms such as goodsex and crimethink. Some BS words have a more literary pedigree than others, and that's certainly true of this word coined by George Orwell in his famous dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949. If we ever run out of them, I'll be gobsmacked. This very popular word can be found everywhere from Irish newspapers to the title of literary magazine the Gobshite Quarterly. As seen in words like drivel and palaver, spit is never far from the bullshit lexicon. Its 1986 use in John Hockey's Squaddies: Portrait of a Subculture is characteristic, as the author describes a sergeant who "was a regular gobshite always shouting at you in barracks."Īnother sense of gob may have influenced this word: It's been a verb meaning spitting and a noun for a wad of spit. By the mid-20th century it can be found referring to a fool, then a fool with a big mouth. This mostly Irish word first turns up as a term for a seaman in the U.S. Then you could tell your friend to make up for the insult by buying you nachos.Įven if you elude Big Brother, there's no escape from Big Bullshit. If a friend said, "I heard you hate nachos," you could reply, "Applesauce!" as a firm denial. The word can also be used a simple dismissal of something. Often it means lies or flattery, as in this example from Ring Lardner Jr.'s The Love Nest and Other Stories: "I wasn't born yesterday and I know apple sauce when I hear it, and I bet you've told that to 50 girls." Or maybe applesauce tasted like pure crap to someone, because this has been a synonym for nonsense since at least the 1920s. Maybe this term was influenced by horse apples, a euphemism for horseshit. Horseshit and rubbish aren't highly valued, to say the least.īut applesauce? That origin isn't so clear. It's obvious why some words become synonyms for bullshit. Here, in an excerpt from his new book, Bullshit: A Lexicon (Three Rivers Press), Peters shares five colorful phrases to add to your vocabulary. -Jill Krasny Applesauce Fortunately, Mark Peters, card-carrying member of the American Dialect Society who happens to write the Best Joke Ever column for McSweeney's, has your number. You need something forceful. Hilarious. Eloquent. You know the deal: You're sitting at work, bored out of your skull, and BS is no longer cutting it. A particular favorite detail was random fans sending Ruth weight-loss tips, including a woman from Cleveland who “urged Ruth to eat ten pineapples a day.Sometimes you've gotta call a spade a stinking pile of horseshit. Still, the premise’s validity doesn’t really matter because Taylor delivers the Ruthian goods. For sure, the scandal was a black eye for baseball, but how much quantitative harm did it actually do? Taylor cites anecdotal tabloid headlines and a precipitous drop in American League attendance when the Yankees weren’t in town as evidence of the “Tarnished Game.” But he doesn’t account for the hotly contested National League having a significant attendance increase that season, even after it became public that all-time great Rogers Hornsby owed a bookie $93,000. Two future Hall of Famers, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, were suspended in the offseason for alleged game-fixing years earlier, but the investigation was dropped and neither missed a game. It’s debatable whether Ruth “rescued” baseball, but he definitely saves the book, because Taylor’s contention that the sport was at the abyss is speculative at best. |