Posted in Aerial Photography on Dec 30th, 2004 No Comments »
Is this shot evidence of water on Mars or a piece of Utah desert from 38,000 feet? Should I sell it to The National Inquirer? It’s amazing how barren pieces of this country are and how abstract they can look when you get far enough away from them.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Dec 29th, 2004 No Comments »
In all of my flying I’ve rarely witnessed such a stark interface between landscape and cloud cover. We were flying west to east and I was shooting down and left but but doesn’t mean that this “weather” was necessarily moving from left to right (as weather usually does: west to east). In reality, I have [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places on Dec 29th, 2004 2 Comments »
Amazon makes it easy to donate money to the American Red Cross to be used for disaster relief for victims of the earthquake and resulting tsunamis. American Red Cross Disaster Relief at Amazon
Posted in Macintosh on Dec 28th, 2004 3 Comments »
Software Update Tips and Voodoo is john Gruber’s (Daring Fireball) reply to a post by Jeffrey Zeldman called Mac OS X safe update tip. All of the discussion is excellent and useful, especially Gruber’s discussion of some of Zeldman’s “voodoo” steps. I plan to change some of my ways after reading this. Wait a day [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Dec 28th, 2004 No Comments »
How to fix Mom’s computer in which Gina Trapani describes in great detail her annual ritual of fixing her mother-in-law’s Windows 98 PC. Gina has a great weblog too!
Posted in Aerial Photography on Dec 28th, 2004 2 Comments »
I flew Delta from LA to Atlanta earlier this month and sat on the left side, behind the wing so I could shoot landscapes. Little did I know that the pilot picked a course that took us just south of the south rim of the Grand Canyon. When he announced it I scrambled to get [...]
Posted in Places, Social Software on Dec 28th, 2004 No Comments »
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is Wikipedia’s ongoing coverage of a world event happening in real time. What’s great about this is that when you combine the capabilities of a “wiki” (an open source compilation of information that anyone can contribute to and edit), the internet, and an event like this one, there can be a [...]
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Dec 27th, 2004 No Comments »
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Posted in Social Software on Dec 27th, 2004 No Comments »
The “Dirty Dozen” 2004 lists the top dozen countries sending out spam. The US leads with over 40% and Russia did not make the list. I’d have thought Russia would be on top for some reason.
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Dec 26th, 2004 No Comments »
As some of you may have noticed, this site and all of the others on the server it sits on went down just before Christmas and stayed down for over 24 hours, then came up and went down again a few times before things settled out. The culprit was a worm that prayed on a [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place, Yoga on Dec 26th, 2004 11 Comments »
Every time my wife Anne does yoga in the house, the cat finds her and “participates.” This is a cat that looks for every opportunity to rub her face up against yours so a yoga pose is a perfect opportunity. Maybe we’ll call this pose “downward cat.” As you can see, she’s after a face [...]
Posted in Our Place on Dec 24th, 2004 8 Comments »
Just a quick post before I pack it in for this evening. My wife Anne and I wish all of you and yours our best for this holiday season and for the coming new year. Thanks to Gary Sharp for recommending that I get a fast 50mm lens. It’s a pleasure to shoot with. One [...]
Posted in Photography, Places on Dec 24th, 2004 No Comments »
My friend Scott James took this out his moving car window in St. Louis, testing out his new 50mm f1.8 lens on his Canon 300D. Yeah man, holiday spirit in motion.
Posted in Social Software on Dec 23rd, 2004 1 Comment »
2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist, Search patterns, trends, and surprises. Wow. First George Bush, then Janet Jackson. One loose boob follows another.
Posted in Art and Design on Dec 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
While in LA my 89 year old mother dragged me to a gallery to see an installation by the famous glass artist Dale Chihuly. Being a potter (in days of old) I particularly liked his “vessels” and pods.
Posted in Photography, Places on Dec 23rd, 2004 6 Comments »
I was out in LA a few weeks ago and took a lot of pictures at the Getty Museum, which, if you’ve not been there I highly recommend visiting; it’s one of the most interesting museums I’ve ever been to (I’ve been to many). This sunset shot was looking northwest toward Malibu. I decided to [...]
Posted in Our Place, Photography on Dec 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
Not sure how these goblets formed. Must have been the water running under an ice drip. Great shapes though, not made on a lathe (Steve).
Posted in Our Place, Photography on Dec 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
It was cold yesterday so I went out with the camera to shoot ice formations on the stream. I was playing with shutter preferred (Tv on my 300D dial) to stop the water or show it’s motion and forgot to just look at ice and bubbles. Luckily I got a few nice pictures in all [...]
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Dec 23rd, 2004 1 Comment »
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Posted in Ideas, Politics on Dec 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
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