Okay, this is so not me, but it made me laugh when I saw it. Today it’s very warm and very muggy, but it was also very much about to rain like hell. So the thought of this imaginary me prancing around in a bikini is just ludicrous. Or maybe it’s lewdicrous; could be. However, it’s cute and of course the kitty is in it. Hi, kitty! And by the way, by the time I got home, the heavens burst open and I had to run around outside trying to cover up the one flower bed and protect it from…
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We spent the day at Arches National Park; after our exertions hiking out on the slickrock to see the Upheaval Dome area the day before, we were moving slower and somewhat painfully, so we took an “easy” day driving around part of the park and taking short spur hikes to see arches and interesting rocks. At one point we got into an area just off the road called “Sand Dune Arch” and luckily we had it to ourselves. It’s in an area of long, thin vertical fins of red sandstone, and there’s extremely fine red sand (or rock dust) underfoot.…
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Hey, it’s Last Thursday, let’s go to the Gallery Opening! When I lived in Seattle, First Thursdays of the month were the night people went downtown and went to the art galleries, which were open late and full of crowds looking at the latest works of art, photographs, and blown glass. The artists would be standing there, ready to chat with anyone who wandered up, with a plastic glass of wine in hand. The gallery openings were almost always free and often very crowded, and they were great ways to get out and about for very little money. It was…
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Oh, crap, here we go. I’ve tinkered with my own gallery, and have yet to upload many pictures, but I can at least do it easily enough. Now I’d like to have the ability to do a little moblogging from the road, if possible. Ideally, send images to the sidewall area that’s currently occupied by several static images. It’d be nice to have them change in random order, with new images added via email. gme.jp: How to make a moblog sidebar in MovableType Mfop2 etc. Alternatively, there’s a way to moblog to Gallery, or integrate Gallery within MT rather than…
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The day we walked up the road in Lamb’s Canyon, the sun was warm and bright, and everything looked as if it had been done over by Mother Nature’s spring cleaning — all the branches were bare on the aspen and scrub oak. The snow was slowly drawing back the covers it had thrown over the rocks and the ridgelines from their winter sleep. It’s not spring up there just yet, but it’s just around the next turn in the road. And in the meantime, the snow is melting into pure, cold water. From here, it flows into Parley’s Canyon,…
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With the help of the latest entry at Learning Movable Type: Text Wrap, I’ve improved the way the images for the Scotland entry in the travel journal work with text wrapped around them (or under them, in the case of a short amount of text). It’s noticeable when you scroll down from the Scotland entry – pretty neat and wrapping correctly – and then get to entries like York and London. All of this is leading up to a boatload of images to be messed with. I ended up cancelling the Art Institute excursion with David’s parents and staying home…
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We did make it out, late in the day, to the Botanic Garden. It wasn’t cold, and there weren’t many people there because there was nothing “pretty” in bloom yet. Still, it has a spare beauty in the winter and is always worth a visit in reasonable weather. So we took a lot of photos. I don’t know how David’s came out with the new camera, but mine aren’t so bad…
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All kidding aside, this story from October, 2003 makes my blood boil: RESOURCE DAMAGE AT YELLOWSTONE’S LONE STAR GEYSER 2 geniuses in a pickup truck went off-roading in Yellowstone and did a fair amount of damage near a geyser, then obligingly told the rangers everything they needed in order to bust them. The Salt Lake Trib had more information after the incident on these two geniuses and their adventure in the wilderness – with excellent snark provided by the reporter, who implied the pair were in need of an IQ test, rather than a sobriety test. I love the part…
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Hmm – bitter cold, dark, and icy. Seems like a good night to blow off choir practice. Why do I keep pissing and moaning about this? Oh, I don’t know… something about it just makes us all happy and contented (not to mention covered with a significant fraction of the beach). imgbrk Gosh, that was fun. If only Steve had stayed buried. We’d still be there. 😉 UPDATE 12/02/04: some slight upgrades. It’s only taken me a year to learn how do deal with images ‘n shit.
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Isn’t this beautiful? Hunkabutta: Tokyo photos, a stranger’s life in pictures I ran across it when browsing mediatinker’s helpful and attractive site. And also in the same search came across it again via the great Tokyo Shoes blog tutorial. I’m impressed by the design aesthetics of the pages and blown away by the gorgeous images. I spent two weeks in Japan, and no picture of mine comes close to these in quality. Man, I wish I could take pictures like these. And I hope I remembered right that “Utsukushii” means “beautiful.”