The bees were working over the yellow bells (aka esperanza) in my father-in-law’s backyard, and so I hauled out the camera on Saturday to try to capture some of the action. I was so focused (pun intended) on the bee leaving the bloom in the following photo that I didn’t notice the one that’s on… Continue reading Heavy Backyard Air Traffic
Month: August 2009
Mantid on Board
We brought a nice lantana back with us from Fort Stockton, a birthday gift for my wife from my brother and sister-in-law. After it was situated on the back porch, Debbie called me to take a photo of what might have been a stowaway on the trip home. He’s wet because she sprayed him with… Continue reading Mantid on Board
Link Love
Ran across a few interesting links I think you might enjoy as you contemplate the wonder that is Friday. Now, about that cover… is a post from the author of the book by the same name, and it deals with how the quite striking cover of his book came to be. The photo shown on… Continue reading Link Love
So you think you can bicycle?
I didn’t know there was such a thing as an Indoor Cycling competition, but it’s an amazing thing to behold. What’s even more impressive is that the guys in this video are doing these stunts on full-sized bikes instead of the little BMX-style bikes you normally see used for such cycling “gymnastics.” (If they want… Continue reading So you think you can bicycle?
DJs of the Future
Via Geeks are Sexy:
Woofer is for Wimps
The Twitterverse is abuzz about Woofer, the tongue-in-cheek “macroblogging” service that so closely resembles Twitter as to make IP lawyers walk funny, and which requires a minimum of 1,400 characters (vs. Twitter’s 140 character maximum). Most of the woofs thus far seem to be either randomly typed characters, or passages from famous books, like Moby… Continue reading Woofer is for Wimps
Jurassic Flowerbed
I stepped out the front door around noon to change some light bulbs and heard a rustling in the flowerbed. Given the number of rattlesnake sightings in our neighborhood this year, I was in no mood to assume the noise came from a beneficent source, so I tip-toed over…and spotted the fellow in the following… Continue reading Jurassic Flowerbed
The Original Hummer
Back porch hummingbird views:
Take a Chill Pill and get your groove on
We’ve been enjoying our neighborhood’s new clubhouse and pool, but one thing that’s missing from the summertime-at-the-pool experience is music. Even decades later, the smell of sunscreen* evokes memories of Groovin’ or Crystal Blue Persuasion or anything by the Beach Boys, all of which were on the continuous P.A. playlist at the big pool at… Continue reading Take a Chill Pill and get your groove on
Zombie Attack? Canadians have our back, statistically.
For those who claim that math has no practical application in everyday life, our response has always been “oh yeah…well, what about an uprising of the undead?” Of course, that response was, unfortunately, a blustery theoretical, unsupported by actual computations and graphs and PowerPoint presentations, and therefore lacked credibility. But all that has changed, thanks… Continue reading Zombie Attack? Canadians have our back, statistically.