Archive for October, 2008
Trains
Columbus Day Weekend Trains: Nine minutes of video shot with my phone from various trains we rode through the holiday weekend: the Amtrak Northeast Regional, an NJ Transit commuter between Elizabeth and Penn Station, and the subways of New York. Gets a bit loud in places.
Houses, Trees
Two suburban panoramas from around New Jersey: houses along a street in Union, trees starting to turn colors up in the Watchung Hills. Both photos shot and stitched with my Nokia 6120c. More shots from the weekend here.
New York Saturday
We spent Saturday in New York to check out art in Chelsea and meet up with a friend. (Sorry to all our other New York friends, there was really no time for all of you wonderful people!) Here’s some of the art we looked at in Chelsea: Thomas Connolly’s New York landscapes Dan Witz’s In [...]
Caturday!
While browsing through galleries in Chelsea we spotted this cat prowling the halls of 525 W 25th, eventually settling in the sun by a side door. A litterbox sat in a nearby supply niche, indicating that the cat was there with some superintendent’s blessing, possibly to catch rodents. (Monday note: I’m cheating a bit here [...]
Shoulder Update
I brought my shoulders and the X-rays to an orthopedic surgeon last Wednesday and he tells me it might be tendonitis. I still have more mobility and less pain than a rotator cuff tear would give me, and the gradual development of the pain points to a growing inflammation causing painful impingement. A very long-needled [...]
Clouds
It’s been an interesting week to photograph clouds, what with the clear skies and clashing cold and warm fronts of early Fall over DC. Still no new camera after the catastrophe so I just shot these with my cellphone: Altocumulus (possibly perlucidus?) ethereally lit from slightly below by the morning sun over Union Station, Altostratus [...]
End of the SD1000
So as I was saying in my last entry, suddenly, disaster struck! As I was maneuvering between tourists to get a photo of the giant squid, my camera slipped out of my hand and crashed to the hard marble floor, bouncing spectacularly as pieces of plastic flew off the camera lens ring and battery cover. [...]
Union Station Centennial and Natural History Ocean Hall
Amy and I checked out the Union Station Centennial last Saturday. There were historical exhibits, memorabilia, model train sets, and best of all, historic train cars and locomotives out on the tracks. We got to look inside a 1957 Rosa Parks-dedicated Metrobus, pester the guys at NARP to send our membership cards, and walk inside [...]
Caturday!
Here is Pandora, moments before and moments after engaging in a quick flop maneuver atop her little lounging rug patch in the living room.
Walk Through DCA
After dropping off my parents at National Airport, I went on the long walk from Terminal A (the original 1941 airport building) to Terminal B/C (the newer, larger airport) to catch the Metro to work, stopping in the historic lobby to check out the exhibit hall and watch a plane take off: There’s a somewhat [...]