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Update, 9 Nov 2016: The political ascendancy of Donald Trump would be a fascinating and mildly amusing study in American celebrity culture, were it not such a potential threat to my safety and quality of life. Really no surprise that after years of a party defining itself through ostentatious wealth, belligerent ignorance, racial hatred, conspiracy […]
I’ll have more to write about the Antares A-ONE NASASocial event later, but for now, here was my view of the rocket launch itself, recorded from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility press site, 2.1 miles from Pad 0A. I used my NEX3 on a tripod, zoomed out for a wide angle view, with an ECMSST1 […]
Peak bloom came early this year: March 18th, owing to the warm winter. That was Sunday, so right after church we went down to mingle with the tourist crowd for the standard afternoon of DC hanami. We don’t do a full circuit of the Tidal Basin anymore when we go to see the blossoms. Too […]
In early August 2011 I attended a NASA Tweetup at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for the launch of Juno, JPL’s new probe to Jupiter.
Full photoset here. NYC locals and tour guides have recommended walking the Brooklyn Bridge and ending in Brooklyn to have pizza at Grimaldi’s, though in our case we wanted to end up in Chinatown and have dim sum. So, going against the normal tourist flow on a warm morning last month, we headed for High […]
Backup of my very first mobile weblog, posted from a Nokia 3390 via AIM Bloggerbot. testing BloggerBot?4/10/2002 08:39:19 PM THIS ENTRY MARKS THE POINT WHERE “SHAME THERAPY” STOPS AND THE MOBILE WEBLOG BEGINS. THAT IS ALL.4/11/2002 07:47:07 PM Argh. Why can’t I sleep?!4/11/2002 10:58:21 PM On my way to a job interview. I just saw […]
Followup to Owning The Clouds and the update: I got an email from Sarah Bernard of 23/6, apologizing for the inadvertent pulling of my video due to Google/YouTube’s content identification. I forgive you, 23/6! Dear Paulo, I’m Sarah Bernard, President of 23/6. Please know that we certainly did not intend for our posting the video, […]
Upper left: Cameraphone video from Yellow Line train crossing the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River from VA to DC at sunset. Upper right: Cameraphone video of random guy juggling three colored balls on a Blue Line train between McPherson Square and Metro Center. Bottom: Zoetrope-style tunnel ad for Speed Racer, viewed from a […]
First Flickr video, shot with the 6120c: I got first wind of Flickr’s impending launch of video from TechCrunch’s Twitter stream and puppet show announcement (followed by more puppet buzz from Flickr themselves). Matt confirmed to me that he had indeed been in on the private beta, shortly before Flickr announced it officially. When I […]
Update: Encampment to Stop the War Various antiwar groups with a little protest camp of tents on the lawn between the Capitol Reflecting Pool and 3rd St NW. The large yellow banner says ‘Cut Off War Funds.’ (Protest.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)