Canoeing in the reed beds

The last time we were in the reed beds there was two feet of ice beneath our feet.  This time we were in the canoe.  Son wanted to walk on them as he had in the winter.  No way!!

Just a note from our mini-vacation spot in Maine.  Written on a borrowed laptop.
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Pet Loss Sadness

I’ve been one of those who has made comments regarding blogs devoted to cats and the photography thereof.  However, when a cat that has made its home your home for almost a dozen years meets its end from coyote wounds,
I believe it worth a public statement.

 

 

Today, along with the ashes of another long lived pet, we are rearranging the front garden in their honor.

 

 

 

There have been a large number of changes in the geek world: beta Thunderbird, First Release Firefox, one AIR desktop program after another, mostly, it seems, Twitter related.

Twitter itself has burped once or twice over the past week, causing the AIR programs to require manual resets, like old alarm clocks and VCRs.  You do remember VCRs?

LiveJournal Tags: Mourning

Plaxo sold out.

The people in Twitter are baling out of Plaxo now that Comcast is buying it.

Leo Laporte provided this link to cancel your Plaxo account: http://tinyurl.com/6rw2ch 

It is a tinyurl.com redirect so that you can tell if it’s a spoof address.  Click on the link, delete all of your data first and then cancel the account, if you are so inclined.

All I know is, if Leo Laporte says something is uncool, drop the knitting and run for the exit.

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It’s good to see that I can post to a...

It’s good to see that I can post to a blog while I am exploring the new features in Google Document.  For the past few hours I have been wrapped up in reading the intelligent Kevin Kelly’s writing and photography on kk.org. Just the fact that he has kk.org is coup enough for a geek.

There are great possibilities using this method for creating websites on the fly when not attached to my own laptop and its blog creating programs.

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Publishing to Belltower News using Google Docs.

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All & Everything Week

There have been few, okay, no posts to any of the Grazing sites for the paste week.  A combination of personal cycle of life to those around and near to us combined with a general ennui that comes with every Spring.  We hope to get up to speed in the coming week but will not guarantee it.

LiveJournal Tags: ennui

Social Networking 1921 Style

At this page in the Shorpy Historical Photos website, is a photo of a few hundred people standing  on 111 Street in the July 2, 1921 heat in Washington, D.C. They are reported to be listening to a radio broadcast of the Dempsey- Carpentier Fight.

To fully appreciate the wonder of this occasion, the photograph itself and Shorpy’s amazing website,  read the comments where a commentator shares an image of an old post card that displays the Harvey‘s Restaurant shown on the far corner in the photograph.

Next you need to see it full image.  There are a dozen or so social interactions, as well as example of mass behavior common for the time and place.  The most obvious is the proliferation of straw “boater” hats.  These were worn on hot summer days.  They shielded the head and face from the beating sun and its harmful rays.  The men are all wearing suits, the woman can be wisely found under umbrellas.

For the car buffs amongst you, look at the Ford Model T’s The motor bus covered with a fringed cloth top. There is the Capitol Burlesque house next to Harvey’s, the barber shop in the lower left corner on the same block with the YMHA.

See what else you can find in the larger photo and then read the comments on the first page.  A stroll though history caught naked in the middle of a hot Summer day in D.C.

LiveJournal Tags: Shorpy

Second Try @ Animoto

The last vestiges of Winter remain on the Porch.

Yesterday was May Day.

I heard of no local Mayhem.

With all of the bombs going off all over the world, it may have taken some of the steam out of Labor’s ardor.

Happy May!!