Feeling kinda rushed? Trying to get a lot of things done and realizing that you’re way behind? Calculating your remaining time to the holidays and cursing math in general? Well, it’s not at all your fault, because today is You’re Supposed To Be Behind Day, another one of our eminently useful (and timely!) national holidays! Yes, this is an intended and perfectly
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Living in the past XXII
My timing was both good and bad for this one. I’d seen a jumping spider wandering around on one of the potted plants on our back deck earlier, without thinking too much of it, but I was familiar enough with their appearance that when I came out a few hours later and found one of the leaves rolled up tightly, I knew it had just happened peeking down the still-open
Living in the past XXI
For years while living at the old place, I’d struggled with attempting to get lightning photos. The immediate surroundings were too cloaked by trees, poles, and wires, and I rarely got any kind of decent warning so I could travel to a more open and photogenic location. The electrically active parts of storms are notably fickle, usually only producing lightning for a short
Tripod holes 50
N 42°55’32.19″ W 76°44’22.79″ Google Earth location
This is, mercifully, one of only a handful of photos of this goon, for obvious reasons. This was in the summer of 1990, not long before the residents of this region chased him from the state. Despite the decrepit condition of the negative this was scanned from, I can vouch that the apparent markings on the t-shirt were
More trouble than it was worth
This is just a handful of pics and video clips from the summer that I stalled on, and finally got back to when I needed to keep the post count up. Nothing exciting here, but reasonably successful macro videography anyway.
I recall it being during the sweltering season, so even at night I was sweating just standing there, but the air was reasonably still, which was good because all the action (I use
Living in the past XX
To me, this one just all came together nicely. The complementary colors of course, but the V-shape of the line of blossoms and the fernlike leaves working the corners, the short range of sharpness, and the position and lighting on the sweat bee just worked. A certain amount of this was serendipity, since I had only a moment to frame things while the bee was present, and was mostly
*Grumble mutter blaspheme snarl*
I’ve mentioned before (probably too many times) that I switched over to Linux Mint several years ago and have been largely happy with it. Far more stable and problem-free than any version of Windows that I’ve used, completely free of forced upgrades and intrusive or proprietary horseshit. There was a learning curve, certainly, especially with getting the MIDI keyboard working on it,
Get ready for bugs
Hoo boy. The period that I’ve reached while going through the folders for the ‘Living in the past’ posts was dominated by arthropod photos, and while I actually produced new content yesterday, it was by visiting the butterfly house of the Museum of Life and Science, not to mention that I’ve got some
Living in the past XIX
I like this one for how vague it is, but dislike it for not getting the detail that I wanted while still having too much. Do I sound neurotic, or just spastic?
But okay, the explanation. First off, this is winter 2015, and shows something that I heard about and always wanted to try, but we rarely get the necessary conditions at this latitude. You’re seeing a soap bubble in the process of freezing
Dittyday 10: Faded Flowers
This is another taste of how much the internet has changed things. We go back to 1986 and a movie called Band of the Hand, which I saw in theaters and happened to like (reviews are quite mixed but, you know, listen to reviews only when you can’t form your own opinion.) I’m not here to go into the film, but a particular song therein, which had a very brooding sound, enhanced