Posted in Ideas on Oct 30th, 2005 2 Comments »
Scientists Tie Two Additional Genes to Dyslexia: “The findings strongly support the idea that many people with severe reading problems may have a genetic disorder that affected their brains before birth.” The article goes on to say that scientists think that they will have a cheeck-swab generic test for dyslexia within two years. This is [...]
Posted in Our Place, Tools on Oct 29th, 2005 40 Comments »
This is a relatively old, but still serviceable John Deere farm tractor at the Warren, CT fall fair. Some young guys were demonstrating using it to power a hydraulic wood splitter. Here’s the tractor connected to the wood splitter. Notice the two hydraulic lines running to the pump mounted on the tractor’s PTO. This is [...]
Posted in Our Place, People on Oct 28th, 2005 5 Comments »
Our friends David and Rosa came to visit with their two daughters, Bente (6) and Femi (3). The girls were so cute and animated I had to get my camera out to try to capture some of their fun. Here’s the flickr tagged set I made of the images.
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Tech Stuff on Oct 27th, 2005 4 Comments »
360 Electrical is a great solution to a common problem. (Via SIGNAL VS. NOISE.)
Posted in Flowers, Our Place on Oct 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Between yesterday’s rain and today’s wind our swamp maples are being denuded of leaves right before our very eyes. It would be nice if I didn’t have to clean it all up. Looking through a small swamp maple at another a bit behind it in seasonal metamorphosis.
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh on Oct 26th, 2005 6 Comments »
The front page of Apple’s web site today has the famous picture of Rosa Parks on the bus not moving while a white man sits behind her with the “Think different” caption/headline on it. Click through and you have a well-written article on her life done in a tasteful way. Apple had included her long [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Gear on Oct 26th, 2005 1 Comment »
Canon has announced a new version of their “Elph” line of digital cameras: Canon PowerShot SD430 Wireless. Phil Askey seems to think wireless cameras are a fad that will pass but I’m not so sure. This camera may not make it and wifi may lose to bluetooth but I’m pretty sure wireless devices like iPods [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on Oct 26th, 2005 No Comments »
My friend Wendy called and said she’d lost power due to a tree having fallen on the lines on her road. Ambulance chaser that I am, I thought “photo op” and she came over and picked me up in the rain to go “document” the big event. A perfectly good and healthy maple had toppled [...]
Posted in Photographers on Oct 26th, 2005 No Comments »
gakout, one of my favorite flickr landscape photographers has a wonderful series called Aerial/Dunes taken from small planes flying over African desert areas. The patterns and textures in these photographs is incredible and I hope he compiles a book to collect and share them widely.
Posted in Drumming on Oct 25th, 2005 No Comments »
coverpop: every hand drum on amazon is an amazing resource for finding percussion items on amazon by simply pointing at their picture in a huge matrix. I want that, and that, and that… oh boy. Oh, and try the world music coverpop on the right column. Gad. Source: Ed Beaty
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Oct 25th, 2005 No Comments »
joka2000 has captured one of the better butterfly images I’ve seen on flickr in a long while, maybe ever.
Posted in Yoga on Oct 25th, 2005 6 Comments »
My wife Anne and Emily Darling doing an intense session of yoga in our dining room (which we cleared of furniture lest you think it’s big enough for yoga and eating). Anne’s hands and foot. Emily’s foot and hand. Anne’s hand. Emily’s foot. Call me a foot fetishist but there’s something about these yoga toes [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Oct 23rd, 2005 4 Comments »
It was cloudy enough flying back from Minneapolis so that the only thing to shoot was the clouds. Wish I had a polarizing filter for this stuff. Gonna have to get one now. The flood lights (halogen?) gave an interesing glow and color to the entire area around United’s Terminal B at O’Hare. I’m pretty [...]
Posted in Our Place, People, Yoga on Oct 21st, 2005 5 Comments »
My wife Anne (right) and Emily Darling had an amazing yoga session in our dining room and I got to be the hot-shot fashion photographer and walk around taking pictures. It was a blast to work with two beautiful women (even better to know I’m married to one of them). Emily was taking Anne through [...]
Posted in Flowers on Oct 21st, 2005 2 Comments »
This was an experiment with backlighting as the sun went down. Not great focus but decent backlighting and black behind. Oh well, gotta put the bad up with the good.
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Flock is a new open source browser (I think) that may be a “fork” of Mozilla/Firefox (I’m not sure). It’s not quite done yet but they’ve released a developer version with binaries for download so that they can spread the testing and development to the larger open source community. What’s interesting about Flock is that [...]
Posted in Music, People on Oct 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Bill is a folk musician and songwriter who I’ve been listening to for close to 20 years. He’s also my neighbor and a good friend. This was shot at his annual fall concert, this year given with Horace Williams, another excellent folk singer and songwriter in Sherman, Connecticut. Bill and Horace were recording a new [...]
Posted in People, Yoga on Oct 18th, 2005 2 Comments »
A few more shots of Emily Darling doing yoga. I learned a lot photographing her and a few days after this was taken a did another shoot of her and my wife Anne. Those pictures turned out extremely well and I’ll post them soon.Call me a foot fetishist but I dig how strong Emily’s feet [...]
Posted in Places on Oct 17th, 2005 4 Comments »
We just had two weeks of solid rain and between Lake Waramaug catching a lot of rain water and the feeding streams flooding into it, the lake is up 4 feet. 4 feet is a significant rise in a lake and our town beach, including lawn and playground is completely underwater. The bench you see [...]
Posted in Photography, Places on Oct 16th, 2005 No Comments »
We went to a great folk concert the other night and it was held in a Congregational church near here. While the musicians were tuning up I got fidgety and shot a few of the Bibles, the foot rests, and this one of the end of the pew ahead of us. Something about this one [...]
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