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Monthly Archives: July 2007

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Sun disappearing behind growing cumulonimbus anvil to the west. Don’t know if that system will affect DC. Update: It didn’t.
(Cloud.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Fallen tree branch on sidewalk, 24th and L St NW.
(Branch.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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Caturday!

Saturday, July 28, 2007

No new cat photos today, but I was rooting around my Flickr archives and found this one of Pandora from about two years ago.

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Couch Assembly Timelapse

Friday, July 27, 2007

Here’s a time lapse video of me and my lovely wife assembling an IKEA LILLBERG loveseat generously gifted to us by her parents for our wedding.

Video is roughly 12 seconds long, 12 fps, covering about 1 hour and 30 minutes of time. Regrettably, as with previous time lapses, I have forgotten once again to lay [...]

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Bad Space News

Friday, July 27, 2007

It’s been a bad couple of days for private and public spaceflight. In bullet points:

NASA: Drunk astronauts. On some occasions, NASA astronauts consumed heady quantities of alcoholic inebriants during the required 12 hour preflight sober period. This SMH story tries to be witty and say the astronauts were blasted into space on alcohol for fuel, [...]

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Just spotted a blue heron wading in Rock Creek under the M St NW bridge between 26th and 27th, but this mobile photo is so blurry it’s probably not visible.
(RoCrHrn.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Sign marking Lock 2 of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown.
(Lock2.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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More Parakeet Pics

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I pet-sat my neighbor’s parakeet again over the weekend, and got a few photos:

More here. He tried to eat the camera.

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Twitter Spam

Monday, July 23, 2007

Okay, Twitter, this is just getting ridiculous:

Not content with single friend/follow notifications, Twitter spammers are removing and re-adding and following and un-following people so as to be able to send more notifications. Yes, yes, I know about the block feature, but that’s like the whack-a-mole routine of maintaining an IP deny blacklist on one’s own [...]

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Monday, July 23, 2007

A new ‘Chevy Volt’ on display at Union Station. I gather from the name that it’s an electric car of some sort.
Update: Volt. It’s just a concept model for a plug-in hybrid with limited electric range, and is only partly “gas-free.” Bah.
(Volt.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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