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Heart-throb Night Gallery
Sun, Oct 2 2005 06:32AM |  |
|  | | Heart-throbs 1.0 and 2.0 - the perfect images to hang in the gallery! | | 1 comment |
| Jim is the New Symbol of Liberty
Wed, Jul 6 2005 05:56AM | |
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| My truck
Wed, Jul 6 2005 05:55AM | |
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My Summer Reading
Thu, Aug 11 2005 03:44PM | |
| Yes, I too have summer reading on which to comment and recommend. I read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Novels (except the prequels - George Lucas has scarred me for life...more on him later). I was amazed how the work of one individual could be so fundamental as to encompass the greatest themes of science fiction, rendering most successive works derivative at best and ganked at worst. Star Wars, by the way, has a lot taken from these books - names, technologies, political entities, planets...yeah, that was surprising.
My only beef is the concluding chapter of Foundation and Earth, the final (chronologically) novel of the series. It doesn't really tie anything up very well, and it in fact opens up about a million more questions in the last couple of pages, which leaves me eminently unsatisfied. Evidently, however, Asimov found the conclusion as difficult as I did...when he was requested by his publisher to write another novel, he couldn't write himself out of his corner, hence the prequels.
I highly recommend them, especially the original Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation). If you seriously need closure, don't go on to the subsequent novels (Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth), though if you think you can tolerate the ending, they're well written and offer a lot of fascinating story. (As you might be able to tell, they deal with finding the location of Earth, which has been lost in antiquity, which to me is a very fascinating concept - so fascinating, in fact, that I was going to write a story about it until I read these and realized that that too would be borrowed from Asimov - which impresses me all the more.) |
| Rebec's Truck
Wed, Jul 6 2005 05:54AM | |
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| Culpeper Parade
Wed, Jul 6 2005 05:52AM | |
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Firefox Wierdness
Tue, Aug 2 2005 04:03AM | |
| | Last night at midnight, Firefox reset. By reset, I mean it lost all my bookmarks and settings and demanded I create a profile to store such things in the future. As I am a relatively new user (~2 months), I was and am perplexed - does it do this from time to time? Did I unknowingly do it myself? | | 19 comments |
| Long-exposure sparkler
Tue, Jul 5 2005 06:56PM | |
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First Tomato of the Season
Wed, Jul 6 2005 12:27PM | |
|  | | Should I keep it until its siblings ripen, and make sauce, or eat this one in a salad? Or perhaps simply sliced with a little salt? ...decisions, decisions! | | 2 comments |
| Kat celebrates the Founding of our Nation
Tue, Jul 5 2005 06:54PM | |
|  | | ...in the American fashion, which is with pyrotechnics. |
| Mischief
Wed, Jun 29 2005 12:09PM | |
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Snow Frolf
Sat, Jul 2 2005 01:23PM | |
|  | I just ran across this on my hard drive and thought it was a really good pic. I didn't take it, but it was taken on my camera!
I also thought it was appropriate, as it was swelteringly hot in Maryland yesterday and it's only slightly better today. |
| Mayhem
Wed, Jun 29 2005 11:34AM | |
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| Scramble
Wed, Jun 29 2005 11:04AM | |
|  | | I was bored. | | 4 comments |
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Hardware Nightmare
Wed, Jun 15 2005 07:17AM | |
|  | So, I moved my computer components into a new case - and voila, it doesn't work. Specifically, no video signal is being generated. Figuring I could at least narrow it down to the video card, I switched it out to another machine, but it worked perfectly.
So what, motherboard problem? When I turn it on, the leds and fans go on, the CD-ROM drive and hard drive spin up to speed, but then nothing happens; no little *beep* from the system speaker. Any bright ideas before I take it to someone with actual diagnostic tools? | | 9 comments |
| Wish me luck...
Wed, Jun 1 2005 01:49AM | |
| | ...as I travel into the Great West (Colorado and perhaps New Mexico). I plan on drastically increasing my igophoto space usage when I get back. :-) | | 2 comments |
| Sunset in the Shenandoah Valley
Sun, May 29 2005 06:50PM | |
|  | | Taken a long time ago, just run across again. |
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My Second Attempt at Painting!
Tue, May 31 2005 10:35AM | |
|  | | Acrylic on gessoed wooden board. Painted in the Byzantine style with inscriptions in Latin and Greek. | | 1 comment |
| Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Thu, May 5 2005 01:43PM | |
|  | | Detail from the panoramic. |
| Down the street...
Thu, May 5 2005 01:40PM | |
|  | | ...from my new home (1 July), is this view. | | 1 comment |
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Nest Defunct
Sun, May 29 2005 11:34AM | |
|  | | Sadly, some kind of animal attacked the nest, leaving it in shreds and the eggs on the ground. It was a dumb place to put the nest, to be honest... |
| Sunflare
Mon, May 2 2005 07:19PM | |
|  | | Through the tree above the Special Collections building |
| Lawn Panoramic
Mon, May 2 2005 06:21PM | |
|  | | As if there aren't enough of these out there already, I thought I'd try my hand at it. | | 2 comments |
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New Robins' Nest!
Fri, May 27 2005 04:09PM | |
|  | | A pair of robins have set up their nest in one of the shrubberies out front. Mama was not pleased with me taking her picture through the window. If I get an opportunity to take a picture of the eggs in the nest, I'll post it, but don't hold your breath - I don't feel like getting dive-bombed by angry avians. |
| Yes it's just a filter
Wed, Apr 27 2005 08:37PM | |
|  | | But I thought it came out pretty cool. |
| O gladsome light...
Wed, Apr 27 2005 08:35PM | |
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My next creative endeavor
Thu, May 12 2005 10:00AM | |
|  | Having completed the Core Trilogy with the printing and binding of "The Core III: Too Good for a Subtitle," I have begun the early stages of sketching out a plot for a new novel. It's going to be scifi, and I have discovered, as Tolkien clearly did, that to have a convincing setting, you need to do a significant amount of background research and work.
Already I've devised a complete system of units of measure based on universal physical principles and have the makings of a constructed language, but most important of all is stellar cartography. The above are all the stars worth mentioning within 27 light years.
What have I learned? Red dwarves suck. They're boring. They can't sport habitable planets. And there are entirely too many of them. Give me a good old G or K class star any day. | | 1 comment |
| Meteor Crater, New and Improved
Tue, Apr 26 2005 09:19AM | |
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| Also Kitt Peak
Thu, Apr 21 2005 05:22PM | |
|  | | I took these on "The Road Trip (TM)" and with the advent of AutoStitch, they're no longer apalling. | | 1 comment |
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Kitt Peak
Thu, Apr 21 2005 05:19PM | |
|  | | At the foot of the McMath Solar Telescope in Arizona. |
| McMath Solar Telescope
Fri, Apr 15 2005 08:54AM | |
|  | | This is the telescope we're inside of in the picture on Vicky's Road Trip album. | | 1 comment |
| Said totem...
Thu, Mar 17 2005 09:07AM | |
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Better Bluebird
Wed, Apr 6 2005 02:24PM | |
|  | | I took down the former fuzzy image and replaced it with this one, which is far better in my opinion. As soon as other birds decide to frequent the backyard, I'll take pictures of them too... |
| Before the swing...
Thu, Mar 17 2005 09:06AM | |
|  | | I won't show the picture of me decpaitating the lobster...we might have sensitive viewers. |
| Flambe!
Thu, Mar 17 2005 09:04AM | |
|  | | 101-proof bourbon burns rather well once you heat it up a bit... | | 2 comments |
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It's a mystery!
Tue, Apr 5 2005 09:09AM | |
|  | | I spent the morning trying to fix the clock-drive on my telescope, pictured above. By some miracle of God, I managed to get it working again. I don't know how - I took the infernal thing apart, put it back together, and it worked. I'm not complaining. |
| got water?
Tue, Mar 15 2005 01:51PM | |
|  | | Maybe it's time to take a trip to the recylcing bin... | | 2 comments |
| Me and Toast
Tue, Mar 15 2005 01:04PM | |
|  | | And this the Charlotte, NC newspapers called a "heart-throb." The guy on the left, not the toast. | | 4 comments |
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I spent the weekend in New York...
Mon, Apr 4 2005 09:02AM | |
|  | ...and all I have to show for it is a picture of this pigeon. Mainly because it poured rain like there was no tomorrow most of said weekend, and my camera is expensive and not water-proof.
Places seen include Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill, the MoMA (in its new cool and dizzyingly-designed building), Lombardi's (the first pizzeria in America) in Little Italy, Sin City, which is not a place, but in fact a film, and the East Village.
And I'm spent. Seriously. Week of recouperation, indeed. |
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The first birds of Spring!
Thu, Mar 31 2005 07:46PM | |
|  | Well, at least the first I imaged - they've been singing noisily outside my bedroom window for the past several days now...
Aha! They're Eastern Bluebirds - Sialia sialis, apparently distantly related to erectile dysfunction... |
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My first attempt at painting...
Mon, Mar 21 2005 12:06PM | |
|  | Besides, you know, fingerpainting.
Astr 311
Acrylic on Canvas. The subject is McCormick Observatory on LSD. My goal with the piece changed back and forth from naive realism to pseudo-impressionism and back again. Tip o' the hat to Mr. Vincent. | | 6 comments |
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Will and Lobby
Thu, Mar 17 2005 08:59AM | |
|  | | Seeing the lobster photo on Will's page reminded me of when I served up Lobby a flambe - with bourbon! His severed head then served as a totem to keep evil spirits away from our keg. | | 2 comments |
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Hurray! A place to post pictures!
Tue, Mar 15 2005 01:00PM | |
|  | Free, and no access restrictions? Sign me up! Oh, wait, I already signed up.
Why the moon? Why not? |
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