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An Evening at Blind Willie’s
Where surprisingly few photos turned out that well. Here is one.
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A backyard fourth
Random shots from the Ettel’s backyard.
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More Photos
I went to the A-Sides show last night, and afterwards went out to my favorite skyline place, at Freedom Parkway and 75 at 3:00 in the morning for the optimal mix of ambiance and safety…
Ghost Adam
Atlanta at Night
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Feeling the Burn
Today Mark, Emily and I rode at little over 30 miles in the 90 plus heat. While it was a good and needed ride it was very taxing on the system and produced a very dramatic sunburn (happily only on my arms).
The Wrist
The Elbow
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First Photos
The new digicam is quite something I do have to say. Something complicated anyway. Here are the first decent photos I’ve taken with it.
and here is the second
Happily Olympus has some free online lessons. I’m going taking some cityscape shot tomorrow, we’ll see how that goes.
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Flagrant gadgetry
- Navicore Personal GPS – it wirelessly turns your bluetooth phone in to a GPS device. Very cool, but it seems to only be available in Europe, though I imagine that will change soon. HT: Gizmodo.
- 10 Million Candlepower flashlight – with built in recharging! And only $49 bucks too. There’s a 15 million candlepower for sale too.
- The Pain Ray – Not really a gadget, but cool in a creepy way. It uses microwaves to heat nerve endings. Supposedly for security and crowd control.
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Random thoughts
- A pretty significant alliance between the US and India. You would think that this would be much bigger news, especially given the rivalry between India and Pakistan and India and China.
- Convictions in the East St Louis voter fraud trial – no surprise there really (it was all on tape). That also should have been much bigger news.
- In South Korea (the most web connected country in the world), a woman doesn’t clean up after her dog and achieves blog infamy within one day. Start the link chain here.
- The Rhode Island Legislature has voted to legalize medical marijuana, without even the pressure of a voter initiative. One wonder when principal-agent theory becomes something the media talks about.
- Free Individualist Stickers – I’m pleasantly surprised by the move to brevity in bumper stickers as seen in the gold and blue “=” stickers one can see on cars in my neighborhood. The guy linked is giving out free “i” stickers (for individualism). Judging from his blog he’s a Randian of some sort and a fellow IHS seminar attendee.
- Exposure Manager (run by a Winds of Change blogger apparently) is offering a deal to Instapundit readers.
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More sights on the ride
I rode by the place I talked about in this post, and found that the wheelchair had been moved and that the Terminator 2 object in the back wasn’t a poster at all, but one of several abandoned video game machines. Pictures below.
And I’m going to experiment with allowing anonymous commenting. Is anyone actually reading this?
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GMaps at last
As promised yesterday, here is my first experiment with GMaps.On the whole, I like the technology. It does a lot of the work for you in terms of plotting and it works off on an external xml file. The only real downside is that it does not use actual address information, only latitude and longitude coordinates. There are a number of free lookup services online, I used GeoCoder.us which worked very well, still it’s an extra, probably unnecessary step.
I’ll look around and see if there is some automated process out there which does automatic conversions and reports back.
On the whole though, a very good and easy proof of concept.
With no further ado, here My Week So Far
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North Atlanta Goodness
I went up to Eric’s last night to pick a little, we wind up going to Eckerd’s to get some cold Medicine for his wife, and of course, I see this
It’s for dry, cracked hands evidently.