Here are some pictures of various flowers in my yard that I took today at lunchtime. No particular reason, other than I like them and since we’re moving soon, I figure I’d better get pictures while I can. They’re not the best quality pictures out there; it was awfully bright when I was taking them,… Continue reading Flowers
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May Day
It was a stunningly beautiful day here in Bend, this first day of May. The first part of the morning was spent taking pictures down from the walls, part of our gradual effort to get ready for the move coming up in June, and not long after we’d finished boxing up a bunch of paintings… Continue reading May Day
Piri Reis Map
Here’s a link to a good image of the Piri Reis map. For all you mystery-history buffs out there.
Chickens and Books
A couple of links I found interesting. First is to All Consuming, “a website that watches weblogs for books that they’re talking about, and displays the most popular ones on an hourly basis.” Kinda cool. The other is to an article on Kuro5hin titled “Raising the Humble Chicken,” which is kind of random but good.… Continue reading Chickens and Books
Bend blogger meetup?
Over on Jake’s site on a roundup of all the known Bend bloggers, the topic has come up in the comments on having a local blogger meetup. Time and place to be decided. I’d vote for one of the breweries. Any interest?
Blog & Order
Notable: Tonight’s episode of Law & Order: SVU marks the first time I’ve heard the term “blog” used on a TV show. Not just used, it was central to the plot.
Historic house
My drive home from work everyday takes me by an old brick house on Hawthorne Avenue, just out of downtown Bend on the entrance to the parkway. What’s notable about this house is that it’s obviously old—one of those old, pre-War homes that has ivy growing on it and just oozes atmosphere and looks like… Continue reading Historic house
Net Meme Threads
Inspired by Tim Bray: From We Interrupt This Broadcast by Joe Garner: The Potsdam communique arrived in Japan on July 27. Instructions: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions, and point back to where you got the idea so that we… Continue reading Net Meme Threads
Some blog links
Some things I found interesting this morning. Via Technorati I found a link to my site from eugene.com‘s blog of the day archive; apparently my site was their blog of the day on November 16 last year. Neat! And from ORblogs I found a new blog from Portland: the Kenilworth-Abernathy neighborhood blog. Not only does… Continue reading Some blog links
Hellboy
Forgot to mention, I saw the movie Hellboy last Saturday, and had a few words about it. Really good. For a long time I’d heard about plans for a Hellboy movie and was really skeptical that anyone could make a good one, but when I started seeing the actual previews, I got excited about it.… Continue reading Hellboy