Thursday, 2 July 2009
Really: these buildings stand perfectly upright. The camera keystoned* all by itself.
PS Isn’t this the reddest barn you’ve ever seen?
* Perhaps this isn’t really a verb. But, neener, I used it that way anyway (she typed feistily).
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Today: wind farm* in northwestern Indiana. Surprise! Tower after tower….
Followed by intermittent drizzle and grey skies over Chicago….
* There must have been at least forty towers….
Sunday, 28 June 2009
So, I’m browsing the latest offerings of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, published weekly, and I spot an article “The Water Footprint of Bioenergy.” Huh?
There’s more about bioelectricity, and an assortment of stuff that’s kinda interesting, but right now is not registering in my brain.
Instead, I’ll head out front and harvest basil for some fresh pesto for dinner….
Friday, 26 June 2009
Last weekend I bowed to a spousal request and we saw “Up” in 3D (at the theater, of course—too loud, as always). Very interesting, this: by half-way through I wasn’t even paying attention to the 3D-ness or the goofy ill-fitting specs. I found it a rather sad tale, although I think it was supposed to be positive and uplifting. Unexpected how many 3D trailers there were. Bonus: they played an animated short, too! (Pixar’s Partly Cloudy.)
Also, around noon, the USPS female-mailperson delivered our new Holux M-241 Wireless GPS logger. It’s a cute little thing, no map, just a simple display, which I wanted (me!, not The Guru—at least initially) as a high-tech digital-not-mechanical pedometer.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
There’s a lively interest in certain circles in car stuff down here in the Deep South, although it’s not as pervasive as I’ve encountered in the Midwest. Remember, after all, that stock car racing is an outgrowth of prohibition-era moonshine deliveries to, among other places, Atlanta’s thirsty, from stills in the southern Appalachians….
This aging, bug-like British body has just had the paint removed by a process that sounded like sand-blasting, although with baking soda, not sand. It’s more delicate than sand, I hear.
This car’s driver is now known as “Matte Silver”—at least by those who know him well….
UPDATE: followup footnote with tomorrow’s post….
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Sorry, light was flat; sky (not shown), on the other hand, was rather dramatic….
The claim is that this 700+ space six-story parking deck, which opened in May and provides spaces for visitors to Piedmont Park and (this is the headliner) the Botanical Garden, will be screened by vegetation etc. planted on a berm in front and on boxes attached to each level. We shall see. Certainly, when you’re on the upper deck, it looks pretty much like a hot place to be mid-day in mid-summer, just like most any other parking facility.
Upside: the ABG claims they will get 40% of the water for the plants (not flushing, etc. by visitors) from runoff from the deck (held in a cistern until needed).
CONCL: need more cisterns.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
At dim sum today, which we decided is something like tapas in Chinese cuisine, we bought a new favorite iPhone app, the Ocarina (99¢). Somehow all the excitement of dining (thanks, J&R) and new-app buying did not distract me from the magic golden—and I’m sure lucky—pig in the display by the cash register.
Friday, 12 June 2009
Celebratory festivities tonight, and we got a chance to see the new Kindle 2, sold only by Amazon. Nice, tidy, little, easy-to-hold package.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
New-cam again. I’m getting used to using this aspect ratio. The big problem seems to be extraneous visual crap creeping in on the sides (as above). Still, these were gorgeous roses, on a section of street I think of as Rose Row, because three houses have front gardens with nice, well-maintained roses. We had a nice park-walk with the new-cam (its first!), despite overcast skies….
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
’Maters are bloomin’ now (and have been for a couple of weeks).
Hey, it’s really a cool camera…. Here’s a better still….