I was very close to doing this as a podcast or video post, and eventually realized it was far easier to type it out and use illustrations than it was to try and juggle the recording and screen capture processes, so here we have it – I would apologize to those who hate facing a wall of text but unless you have an actual, physical handicap, go fuck yourself and deal with reading. If you do
Category: Random
Tip Jar: Hiatus
Nothing for the Tip Jar right at the moment – my time, motivation, and desire simply didn’t coincide this week to permit me to have something up here right now. While I have tried quite seriously to adhere to a schedule from the moment I started doing regular posts, this isn’t a job, isn’t producing income, and shows no evidence of people really counting on seeing the new
Just because, part 58
This is from the same night as this shot, and probably should have been posted then (or even as the month-end abstract,) but it wasn’t, so here it is because I’m not going to do much else with it. I like how confusing it is solely because the mist drops obscure the necessary details, but if you look closely, you may figure it out.
Or not. You’re looking at the tail and the hind
A good one for today
There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury. It’s a quick read, and you’ll know why I chose it for today, even if you think it should have been yesterday.
I first read this in middle school I believe, and I’m almost certain it was a truncated version, ending when the poem does – which I think actually makes it better. It was written in 1950 and distinctly reflects the views
Misty night
Just a brief interlude, and because c’mon. The other night we had a persistent drifting mist, and the sleeping young Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis) were recipients of this, as was about every flat surface. Naturally I couldn’t pass this up…
No, not already
Dipshit (I’m talking to myself – that’s what the italics mean. In this case, anyway.) This is not the last day of July, so you got the abstracts early, probably before they were ripe, and I apologize. I have no excuse, and should know by now to double-check my senile old brain, since this isn’t the first time it’s happened – it’s
Overwhelmed? Thank Hütenverschnippi
We almost forgot that today is the birthday of Wamleigh Hütenverschnippi, a name we should all know much better than we do, since this is the person responsible for cameras looking they way that they do today.
Hütenverschnippi was an early photographer, back when great big bellowy cameras and glass plate negatives were in use, and while he was pretty accomplished at this, he had a hard time being
Yeah, a little late, but hey…
June 19th was the second anniversary of when we first saw Walkabout Estates Plus, and I’d had a project aimed to be completed by that date, but missed it due to needing modifications – this was one of the reasons photography and posts have been reduced. The project was largely completed today though, so that’s not too bad.
That project was, putting in a kayak dock on the pond.
It’s all crumbling
I’ve known for quite a while that human memory is malleable and surprisingly easy to alter, and while there are certainly some things that I believe I recall correctly, I know I’m just as likely fooling myself. But I definitely don’t like it when it’s proven to me.
I was speaking to my cousin the other day, and remarked how, many years back, I’d been picking through
Watch your mouth, kid
I just ran across an offhand comment somewhere that slammed into me with a bit of perspective, a simple one with a lot of baggage: Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Star Wars.
Fifty years ago. Half a fucking century. Why did that little datum suddenly register so specifically? I mean, it’s always been there, waiting to be found, and I’ve been hearing things about our