Luna: 98% of Full from 59° 17.9′N @ 22:12
my photo & photos posted by: dan @ 16 Jul 2008 16:20 | Comments (0)
My temporary office (with a view)
When I wrote yesterday that we’d be in the Swedish archipelago all summer, I should have said home base will be Sweden all summer (at least). Today I set up my temporary office in the attic of the house we are borrowing. My office window, as you can see below, has views which surpasses the view from my bedroom.
The trees in the foreground are cherry, plum, and pear trees. The dock in the middle picture is where my borrowed boat is tied up. Here are more pictures I’ve taken in Bullandö.
Photos taken 15 July 2008 @ 13:45.
my photo & photos & travel & uncategorized posted by: dan @ 15 Jul 2008 7:51 | Comments (0)
Boston Skyline
The first photo is from the Great Blue Hill observatory in Milton, MA. It was around 6:30 AM as I walked the half mile trail up the hill and I crossed paths with a whitetail buck, doe and fawn on the way.
The next photo was taken from Wollaston Beach, Quincy.
Both photos taken June 13, 2008.
my photo & photos posted by: dan @ 14 Jun 2008 13:51 | Comments (0)
Las Vegas & Lake Mead
On March 3, my sister Kerry and her man Jim got married in Las Vegas. The next day, Johanna, Naomi, Jaxon and I drove out to the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. All around, it was a great trip. It was the first time I was in Las Vegas since I was 18 years old. I had been to the Hoover Dam last time I was there and came away impressed again, but the photos don’t quite capture the moment.
Here are some pictures. Click (more…) to see the entire gallery.
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my photo & photos & travel posted by: dan @ 03 Apr 2008 1:22 | Comments (0)
links
Mobile Phone Photo Contest - Boston.com had a mobile phone photo contest. The winner is pretty good, but I think i liked Boston at night best. Here is the best photo I’ve taken on a mobile phone.
Cagle Cartoons is an editorial cartoon syndicator. They represent cartoonists in the US and internationally, and they take the helpful step of labeling cartoons “Con” or “Lib” (making it easier to ignore the liberals because earnestness is not funny). Here is a decent Hillary Clinton cartoon. A British cartoonist sums up the dollar woes, and a Swede comments on the Russian elections.
None of the Above - Malcolm Gladwell, the bi-racial author and writer for The New Yorker magazine, wrote an interesting article about genetics and IQ. The topic is back in the news with the recent disparaging and ironic comments about Africans by James Watson, co-discover of DNA. The immutable nature of IQ lost credibility with a recent study suggesting human evolution is speeding up.
I took an IQ test in 6th grade, I was 13 years old, and I found the results a couple years ago. I think it was WISC III, but it might have been WISC II. I did well, but after reading Gladwell’s article, I realize I might have done well on an outdated test. I remember the test clearly, but my overwhelming memory of the event was walking out of the almost two hour long test mentally exhausted and thinking “They think they know something about me from that?”.
art & ideas & photos posted by: dan @ 14 Dec 2007 1:56 | Comments (0)
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Venice Art Biennial 2007 photos - Lots of nice photos. These are two of my favorite collections.
Name the 49 Countries in Europe - I’ll give you two that don’t show up on the map: Liechtenstein and Vatican City. Also, name the 50 US states.
Map of an Operating System - A representation of the layered approach of the OSI Model as implemented in the Linux kernel. This is a case of beauty in the details.
art & links & photos posted by: dan @ 01 Sep 2007 16:21 | Comments (0)