Nikon D100, 105mm macro - repost
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Wild Azalea
It's azalea time again in NC.
Nikon D100, 50mm - Repost
These things grow wild in damp shady places, on scrawny little trees. More, here.
Tripod Charity Gear
Leaf
Nikon N80, 28-80mm
This one is really old, and I hadn't seen it on a nice sharp LCD monitor before. Ouch! The high contrast and that high frequency grain in the background (a sidewalk) gives me a headache. It's not a great picture, I just wanted to share the pain.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China criticised for 'tiger wine'
American Idol
Had a dream we bought an old Victorian house - tall, ornate, worn-down, like an Addams Family house without the S&M installations. The floors were covered in beetle-green velvet rugs that had almost completely worn down to the backing. I thought about replacing them with new versions of the same - would that look bad? I couldn't decide. Water dripped on my head from somewhere. There was a leak in a 3rd-floor toilet. I looked up through a hole in the 2nd-floor ceiling to talk with the plumber, Simon Cowell. He tightened the big plastic nut on the bottom of the flapper valve, and declared the job finished.
No more Sanjaya.
Sing Us a Song
Bobby's good at this. Go listen.
Don't Bogart That Logic
*gurglegurglegurgle...exhale*
"Dude, dude. So check this out. So, if there's nothing but molecules in the universe, then there can't be any such thing as "evil". "
"Whaaa?"
"No, listen, this is good. So you can't, like touch "evil", right? "
"OK, yeah.... keep going."
"Right. So that means it's all in your mind. It's not real. And then there can't be any such thing as "good", either. I mean, you can't touch a chunk of "good"."
"Dude, your sister is good. And I touched her. Ohhh yeah..."
"No fucker, listen. You can't touch "good" - it's not real. And you can't make a pile of "evil", or "red" or "fast". None of that exists! It's all abstract. It's all in your mind!"
*gurglegurglegurgle...exhale*
"Cooool, dude!"
"Right! Nothing but reality exists. It's just us and the void."
"Duuuude... That's awesome! Gimme that back! ...
*gurglegurglegurgle...exhale*
"So does that mean there's no such thing as "dumb", or "conservative", or "demagoguery" ?"
"Dude, no. Unfortunately, no. Those are real, and evil, too."
Anti-Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions
There's an interesting story on SlashDot about a guy who keeps suing spammers but finds himself up against lazy, ignorant judges who won't even read his documents before dismissing his case.
Please, Stop Trying To Kill My Cat
We thought we were safe, but the pet food problems have appeared in the brand that Tricksey eats - and I just ordered three cases last week! (not of the types they're recalling right now... but two days ago they weren't recalling any of them... so who knows)
Reportedly, rice gluten protein concentrate from a US company is the problem this time, not wheat gluten from China; so I can't blame the Chinese. Oh well.
Maybe Mrs. Cleek was right when she joked that we'd have to feed Tricksey only tortilla chips and deli ham (both of which she loves).