Posted in Landscape, Trees on Mar 21st, 2004 No Comments »
This cornfield is in rotation and hasn’t had corn on it for a few years. I don’t know what the cycle is and it may be corn this coming summer. Our house is beyond the orange maples at the foot of the hill.
Posted in Movies on Mar 21st, 2004 3 Comments »
This is a wonderful movie: Indian culture in London, soccer, cute girls, quirky British characters, uplifting screenplay, coming of age… what could be bad?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley
Bend It Like Beckham Web Site
Bend It Like Beckham at Amazon
Posted in Birds, Trees on Mar 19th, 2004 No Comments »
This old branch collar (a hole left when a branch breaks off) provided a nice place for woodpeckers to start pecking. Eventually these little holes will get bigger, more insects (what the woodpeckers are after) will get inside, and then more woodpeckers and then the tree dies. That process, which can take many years, is [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Mar 18th, 2004 3 Comments »
Google Local is a new service (in beta) at Google.com that allows you to use an address to find businesses or services within various ranges that address (your house, your hotel, whatever).
It’s very much like the services built into Sherlock that allow you to see which movies are playing closeby. Very cool.
Posted in Trees on Mar 18th, 2004 No Comments »
This was taken in a birch grove on the back side of The Pinnacle, a hill near here. I can’t remember what kind of tree it is. Oh well, it’s interesting.
Posted in Humor on Mar 18th, 2004 No Comments »
According to a news report, a certain private school recently was faced with a unique problem.
A number of middle school girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 18th, 2004 No Comments »
Slate has an excellent article on the history of anti-war movements and commentary about the “love it or leave it” rhetoric that surfaced again as people protested the war in Iraq. This all happened during Vietnam (a war that we lost and turned out to have been a long and terrible mistake) and it’s [...]
Posted in Places on Mar 18th, 2004 No Comments »
This was taken last fall on The Pinnacle, a “hill” just south of our house. Trust me when I tell you that there is no “pinnacle” on The Pinnacle but getting to the top of it will give you a nice view of Lake Waramaug.
Posted in Birds on Mar 17th, 2004 4 Comments »
We saw this bird pecking the snow under our feeder and at first thought it was the back side of a mourning dove but when he pulled his long beak out of the snow we knew we’d never seen anything like him before. He was oblivious to us so I shot as many pictures [...]
Posted in Places on Mar 15th, 2004 No Comments »
Took a walk down a dirt road the other day and it was pretty muddy as is the season. But, one deep rut had not quite thawed yet and had some nice ice crystals in it.
Posted in Our Place on Mar 14th, 2004 No Comments »
We’re having some remodeling done and it involves laying some new oak hardwood flooring. This picture is loose flooring, layed out and waiting to be nailed in place.
Posted in Our Place on Mar 13th, 2004 No Comments »
Actually maple sap has been running for over a month now and this is just one, home grown “operation” down the road from us.
In the early spring when it warms to above freezing during the day and drops below freezing at night, sap starts moving up and down in trees, like they are waking up [...]
Posted in Ideas on Mar 12th, 2004 1 Comment »
This is a most amazing site. Great web design and wonderful drawings and imagination.
The Sketchbooks of Kevin Cornell
Posted in Art and Design on Mar 12th, 2004 No Comments »
I saw a blurb and pictures about this guy in WIRED magazine. This guy is not only the world record holder in card stacking, he’s an architect and his designs are beautiful.
Bryan Berg, Cardstacker
Posted in Politics on Mar 12th, 2004 No Comments »
Robert Byrd has some wonderful speeches at his site. Some think he’s a blowhard but I find his speeches right on the money and very useful reading.
Posted in Politics on Mar 12th, 2004 No Comments »
The Democratic Underground is a bit edgier than Common Dreams but still quite good. Plus, they have a discussion area with lots of yelling.
Posted in Politics on Mar 12th, 2004 No Comments »
Common Dreams has one of the best collections of progressive writing on the web. It has been on my daily read bookmark list for a few years now and I’ve not been disapointed in it. Great collection of writers and writing.
Posted in Photography on Mar 11th, 2004 2 Comments »
In searching for information on the Canon 10D digital SLR a friend of mine came across this collection of nature photography by a guy named “Gene” who uses a Canon 10D and a Canon 100-400L IS lens. The link is to just one of his many online galleries. The bird pictures are simply amazing.
Gene’s Gallery [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Mar 11th, 2004 13 Comments »
My trusty Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS died the other day after many many years of heavy use with no problems at all. It has been the most taken for granted and trouble free tool in our little digital world here. Actually, it didn’t die, we just could not get the paper tray light to go [...]
Posted in Places on Mar 11th, 2004 No Comments »
We were in New York recently and walked through Times Square. The scene was, for us, as weird as Tokyo in Lost in Translation.
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