Photos are up from the San Francisco Lindy Exchange on my Flickr account.. And, thanks to my friend Larry, there’s actually a few photos of me!
This photo: Darren, with standard stunned bunny expression, dances with cute girl.
So where have I travelled?
Create your own visited map of The World
I like to think I’ve travelled a lot, but this really shows me how little of the world I’ve seen…
On the way back from Yosemite, I took a detour to the Castle Air Museum, in Atwater, California. I rate this place as “very cool for airplane geeks who have read too many Dale Brown novels.” :)
I found out about the museum late one night, when I was playing “1980’s Soviet Spy,” which is a game I invented where you use Google Maps satellite photos to try and find U.S. warplanes on military bases. I wondered if there were still any SR-71’s operational anywhere I could look for, and some googling told me no, but there was one on display at this museum about 4 hours from my apartment.
They also had a B-52 there (hence the Dale Brown reference.) I knew from books that it was big, but I didn’t know it was thaaat big! The little white blob under the nose is some random tourist posing.
However, the aircraft I found myself most in awe of was one I’d never even heard of before: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker. It’s the largest piston-engine aircraft ever made, and its six propellers face backwards.
There are plenty of other pictures up on my Flickr Page.
I went on vacation to Yosemite for a few days last week.
On my first day there, I walked around a lake and saw a bird standing on some rocks, fishing. I thought “Wow, this is cool” and I went back to my car and got my camera, telephoto lens, and tripod.
When I got back, the bird was still there. So I set up and waited to try and get some good pictures.
After 20 minutes it flapped its wings…
After 55 minutes, it caught a fish, but my hand was away from the camera and I missed it. It was at this point that I thought “I think I’ll just put the camera away and enjoy my vacation.”
I didn’t pull the camera back out until I drove out of the park a few days later and visited Mono Lake. I’d heard it was an interesting place to take photos.
It seems that back in the olden days, before Los Angeles started draining every body of water within a ten-zillion mile radius, there were underwater springs in Mono Lake. As they percolated water up, the calcium in the spring water formed underwater rock structures. And, as LA sucked all the water out of the lake, these tufta became visible.
Good for photographers, bad for the environment. Oh well.
There’s a few more photos on my flickr page, but not too many. It was too dang hot every day for me to want to haul around a camera and tripod.
Still to come: Photos from my side-trip to Castle Air Museum; there’s lots of those ;)
So I see in the news that SUV sales are down 55%.
Given that people were buying SUV’s as a status symbol, wouldn’t they be an even greater status symbol now, as they say “I’m affluent enough that high gas prices don’t bother me?”
My car is one year and ten days old today, and I just rolled over to 10,000 km. That’s 6000 miles for the metric-impaired.
I think I’ll buy her a drink. She looks thirsty.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any photos, mostly because (a) I really wanted to re-do the photo software behind my web site, but (b) I’m too lazy to do that.
Ergo, I’ve decided to just start using Flickr.
Post: Photos from Saturday’s Rhythm Lounge at the Imperial Ballroom in Redwood City.
All you hear about in the news is “the housing crisis” and “the housing crisis is going to cause a recession.”
Can we please have a little of that here in Silicon Valley? Average house prices are only $150,000 more than they were a year ago. Crisis! Crisis!
Quick Summary: If you’re ever designing a web-based tool and you decide to use anything other than an email address as your customers’ login ID, then you deserve to be hunted down and ground up into something that will fertilize plants.
I made the switch - I bought myself a Mac. Does this mean I have to grow a goatee now?
Gosh, I hope not - Once per lifetime is enough for that mistake.