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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Juxtaposition of Rich and Poor

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Working from this BBC story on Philippine poverty, Deebeedee posts a bunch of his own photos showing the stark contrast between rich and poor on his recent visit to the Philippines. It’s a sad and shocking juxtaposition: shanty towns beside mansions, squatters beside business centers.
We Filipinos, unfortunately, have grown rather jaded to it all. Poor, [...]

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Closeups of Tethys

Monday, September 26, 2005

Cassini flies by Tethys and Hyperion, and the photos so far have been awesome and weird! I especially want to point out this fascinating view, which, if you look at it closely, reveals what appears to be a string of small impact craters, in a straight line over older terrain. What kind of meteor [...]

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Accordion Guy and the Redhead Get Hitched

Monday, September 26, 2005

Congratulations to Joey “Accordion Guy” de Villa and his lovely bride, Wendy “The Redhead” Koslow, who were married last Saturday in a mixed Filipino-Judaic ceremony which I would have loved to see. Joey wore his Barong Tagalog, as he said he would, and I think it a good sign for my own future plans to [...]

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Solanum quitoense

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Those of you who were wondering what the thorny green-and-purple plant here was, I asked about it on Metafilter. It’s called the Bed of Nails plant, or Naranjilla in Central America, scientific name Solanum quitoense. I don’t think I’ll be growing any of those soon, as they would probably be a literal pain to repot.

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Amykow v2

Saturday, September 24, 2005

I’m happy to announce that Amykow.com is back in action. Amy wanted to start with a clean slate so she could focus more on her art, so the older Blogger entries are now lost to the ages.
The site now runs on Wordpress, with a template I specifically designed to act as gallery rather than weblog. [...]

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Hurricane Rita Approaches

Friday, September 23, 2005

Scarcely a month after Hurricane Katrina, now we have a new Monster from the Gulf: Hurricane Rita. (Well, from the Atlantic, actually, via the Gulf, but it’s the warm water in the Gulf of Mexico this time of year that feeds these beasts so they grow monstrous.) Texas and Louisiana are at risk, but having [...]

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A Brief History of Yahoo Acquisitions

Thursday, September 22, 2005

You know what really bothers me about the whole Yahoo-Flickr deal? Take a look at each of these sites:

RocketMail
eGroups
Geocities
OddPost
Overture
Inktomi
Launch
ViaWeb (note that they didn’t even bother renewing the domain)
Broadcast.com
GamesDomain
DotMusic
Simplenet.net

All of them were bought by Yahoo sometime between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Do you sense a common thread? What happened to each one after being [...]

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Belated “Blogiversary”

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

I forgot to post about this last week, but last Tuesday, September 13th, marked this weblog’s fifth year. HNBP is now a super-senior.
It all began with “Think,” a spare directory in my old Hypermart space (gone now) where I could tool around with various things — in this case, Blogger — as I reacquainted myself [...]

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Trees on the Mall

Monday, September 19, 2005

(Trees.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
It was nice enough out that I could amble home from work today, so I opted for the “scenic route” along the National Mall. I had to stop at one point and just admire how twilight shone through the trees as a warm northwest breeze rustled the canopy. A heavy sense of [...]

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Calamondins and Capitol

Monday, September 19, 2005

(IMG_3598 uploaded by brownpau.)
Amy came over for the weekend. We sniffed botanical aromas, learned about First Ladies, viewed 15th Century woodcuts and Claesz still lifes, dipped our toes in the fountain at the Sculpture Garden, walked around Watergate, and watched a couple of bad movies.
My camera was most active at the Botanic Garden, for some [...]

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