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Obessed with cookies

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

No, it’s not me - shock! It’s Mishka. Every now and then, I buy cookies from the grocery store bakery. They come in this plastic container. At first, I thought he just loved the sound the plastic made when he gnawed on it. But no, it’s the cookies. Five minutes …

Good morning!

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Mishka

Mishka in the window by my bed. This is the site that greated me when I woke up this morning.

More airport photos

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Building and hangar

I found out there were more old airport buildings out there just waiting to be photographed and so I went today. The sky was horrid and we had just had our first good soaking …

Cold water

Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Cold water

Cold water

My friend Jess and I had lunch at The Omelettry today. I bored her with my recent photography obsession. Hey, I liked the colors in the table top.

Model World

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Here’s short article about some fascinating photos.

It’s often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs are real. They look uncannily like hyperdetailed models, absent the imperfections of reality.

Today’s experiments in photography

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Taken at a little league ball park just after sunset.

Out of season

Street lamp & tree

Bldg 3

Out of season

Weird news of the day

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Fairies stop developers’ bulldozers in their tracks

Villagers who protested that a new housing estate would “harm the fairies” living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again.

 

Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Big Brains or Big Balls?

A recent scientific paper reveals that

Squirrel

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Originally uploaded by seizethedave.

I found this image on flickr - it’s adorable, well done, a bit creepy and just plain cool. Great job, seizethedave.

Americans is stupid

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Study: College students lack literacy for complex tasks

More than half of students at four-year colleges — and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges — lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found.

Exit

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Exit

I had so much fun today at the old Austin airport. Even though the last flight left the airport in 1999, it officially closed in 1993. It’s usually barricaded and marked with “no trespassing” signs, but …