Chinese fireworks, sold on Indian reservations, and lit off with disregard of local ordinances.
American history in cardboard and paper.
I've got a Schefflera in my office. It's thriving really well in the low light and humidity.
The thing is that it leaks tiny drops of a sticky residue everywhere. It's gotten all over my windows, a bit on my desk, and on the back of my bike (which I park underneath the plant on days I ride to work).
I don't suspect I can get rid of this without harming the plant. That's a bummer, since the sap is a little obnoxious.
Wow. Just, wow.
Courtesy copyranter via Consumerist.
I got a physical today. My blood pressure was 96/66.
Apparently I'm pretty relaxed.
I got this today as a replacement for my smashed Canon SD870 IS. It's a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 (also DMC-FT1 outside the US) ruggedized point-and-shoot camera. It's got a wide lens (28mm equivalent if shooting on 35mm film), the usual mess of features, and an entirely internal lens mechanism. Oh, and it's green.
So far so good—it's a little bulkier than the Canon but a little lighter. The shooting options are properly arranged, the configuration menu makes sense, and it certainly appears to take decent photos.
Time will tell if it can sustain the abuse I'm sure to throw at it.
As you may have, uhh, noticed, we've got a load of lawn in our front yard. Typical American suburban all-I-like-to-do-is-mow lawn.
Time to change that. Details forthcoming.
We went to the local Strawberry Festival yesterday. It's a big annual event and has practically nothing to do with strawberries at this point. As far as I can tell, the only part strawberries play is being served up at a single booth in either raw form or as part of a shortcake concoction.
They had a small number of old cars at the auto show, including three pre-1971 red Mustangs, three (gorgeous) C2 Corvettes, a 427 Cobra of uncertain breeding, and a Hillman Minx. There were a few others too but the ones I mentioned were most notable.
I'd have pictures if I didn't abuse my cameras so much.
We went to the Bellevue Arts Museum today (...for the first time).
One of the exhibits was a show of Michael Petersen's work called Evolution | Revolution, which is all amazing stuff. After achieving mastery of lathe-turned woodwork (evolution), he decided to start over by carving holes into wood using chainsaws (revolution). This is pretty remarkable stuff, and is shown at right.
We also saw Bruce Metcalf's miniatures, which are all incredibly detailed and expressive. My favorite piece was Pewter Peanut, which was indeed a whimsically wheeled big pewter peanut next to a cardboard box proclaiming it to be a "one-of-a-kind art toy." Awesome.
Hot damn, the Cessna 195 is a good-looking aircraft.
How did I not find out about this until now?
This is a Daihatsu Charade body mounted on a full-size 4x4 frame.
Washington. It's like New Mexico but with irony.
Amen for all the amateur (and in this case, definitely not-so-amateur) reviews of consumer electronics spotting YouTube. It helps make up for the paucity of quality written reviews, and fills the gaps that even good text reviews can't cover, such as the all-important timed power-on test1.
1 Alas, it seems the one area where the Panasonic DMC-TS1 doesn't excel is in the power-on time. Also, thank god it's available in colors other than orange.
Every once in a while I spot a pickup truck which has had its cab chopped and replaced with a folding soft top.
Weird.
I'm, uhh, looking for a new camera and have to write off all Olympus and Sony models up front since those manufacturers are still attached to their goofy one-off flash card formats.
It's too bad, since those seem to be the two largest makers of point-and-shoot cameras with internal lens mechanisms.
I enjoy blooper answers from The Newlywed Game because unlike many modern game shows—whereby contestants self-select based on their (sometimes misguided) hope they're cerebral enough to be successful—the Newlywed Game cut across an entire different selection factor (being recently married) which, in my opinion, gave them a much more amusing cross-section of people.
Answers like these are just awesome.
The record string of rain-free days I mentioned earlier this week ended as a non-event Thursday night as rain came down at 11:49pm, 11 minutes short of the end of the day.
It's a little bogus anyway though since the end of the period is measured with down-to-the-minute timing but the beginning isn't—but I'm not sure that it even matters since this record was for May-June dry spells, which is questionably notable in the first place.
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