Archive for February, 2006
NT Wright at Washington National Cathedral
Got a heads-up from Wyclif: Bishop N.T. Wright is speaking at the National Cathedral on May 16th. I plan to be there, and so does Wyclif. Any other Wright fans going to be in town? Drop me a line. I myself can’t really call myself a Wright “fan,” as I’ve only given his work a [...]
Old Baltimore Snowstorm Video
Another snowy video uploaded: this one from three years ago, while I was in Baltimore during the President’s Day snowstorm that dumped over two feet of snow on the city in February of 2003. I was living in a little townhouse in Little Italy at the time, and while snowed in, amused myself by building [...]
Powder Pattern
(Powder Pattern, uploaded by brownpau.) Falling bottle of shoe odor powder leaves a mark on my boots. I’m not sure why I felt compelled to take a photo of the bottle dispenser pattern.
links for 2006-02-15
Uncle Albert’s Relatively Cold Hat (Flickr) 23 inches of snow on a bust of Einstein. (tags: weather snow nyc einstein) The Top Ten Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed. A what-if of modern cinematic science fiction. (tags: scifi film) Yahoo! UI Library. The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in [...]
Sunday Snowstorm 3: Timelapse
All of you searchers asking how long it takes snow to melt, the answer in this case is “As long as it takes Google Video to verify and approve user submissions.” (Update: moved to Flickr.) Yes, most of Sunday’s snow has melted off the roads and sidewalks here in DC, but here’s the snowstorm timelapse [...]
links for 2006-02-14
Business Planning Essentials for Designers (tags: business design) Law and Order SVU Valentines Cards. (tags: tv valentines) Star Wars Valentines from SomethingAwful. (tags: valentines starwars)
Let The Pictures Tell You Their Own Moral
I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral or didactic approach?’ I think the answer is Yes. Not because I don’t like stories to have a moral: certainly not because I think children dislike a moral. [...]
Sunday Snowstorm 2: The Photos
As promised, photos from today’s Snowy DC photo safari: (Full album here) I’m especially proud of this one: a full 360° (and then some) panorama of the view from by the Washington Monument, which I have dubbed “The Grand 360+° Washington Monument Hilltop Panorama of Snowy Freedom.” Click on the thumbnail below to get the [...]
Sunday Snowstorm
Snow! Looks to be about 6-8 inches here in downtown DC as of 8am, so I’m going out to the Mall to get some photos before church. I’ve had the webcam pointing out the window all night; I’ll upload a timelapse of the gathering snow when the storm’s over. (You know what’s funny? I was [...]
Leopard Gecko
I’m taking care of my neighbor’s leopard gecko this weekend. She (the gecko, not the neighbor) lives in a large glass tank lit by a red heat lamp, and eats live crickets which are kept in a separate container. This means I have to pick a cricket by hand out of the swarm, shake it [...]