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A hen and chicks plant that is growing in a pot at my house. A minor hobby of mine is photography. I don't know a whole lot about it, nor do I have any fancy equipment (unfortunately), but I can get my smartphone (A florescent yellow-green Sony Xperia Z1 Compact ) to take decent photos. I usually take pictures of flowers, and occasionally I get a decent photo of something else.   Anyways, I want to share some of my favorites here, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. What does that mean? Here's a quick overview from the Creative Commons website. You are free to:  Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format  Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially  Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests...

  A picture of my "Little Professor", after undergoing restoration.  The "Little Professor", an educational electronic toy released in 1976 , was the first of its kind. Encased in happy yellow plastic, with a smiling mustached face, it certainly looks unique. It kind of looks like a cheesy calculator, designed to interest kindergartners in math, but it's actually a little different. It's a "Reverse Calculator"; instead of giving you answers, it asks you the questions!  I first saw mine in the calculator bin at a local thrift store. It has an LED bubble display, and I'd seen one somewhere before, so I snatched it up. Upon bringing it home, it worked fine, but it was dirty and didn't look so great. So I decided to give it a "restoration" (a good cleaning).  After completely disassembling everything, I scrubbed the plastic pieces with a water/baking soda paste. It seems to work well to remove scuffs and marks that accu...