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Friday, August 31, 2007
some kind of beautiful
Colorado National Monument
Posting by cameraphone from Grand Junction, CO
know what?
Shot somewhere in the San Juans.
Posting by cameraphone.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
all roads lead to chaco
Gorgeous good stuff.
Coming out of Chaco Canyon, NM. Central trading and ceremonial destination for the folks who lived in this area a long, long time ago.
Shot through the bug-splattered windshield of a moving car. Posting by cameraphone.
I think that I shall never see
Hello, I'm Leonardo DiCaprio, and I'm here with my boyish, non-threatening good looks to talk to you about trees.
From the Albuquerque Alibi's review of the documentary 11th Hour, which it describes as "the equivalent of a good talking to."
Thanks to killer tax incentives, film is becoming big business in Albq -- we saw three film shoots in the space of three hours our first night in town. Eight films are actively shooting here, and today's news is that comic book creator Frank Miller of Sin City and 300 will soon be directing The Spirit at a studio here in town.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
It was shortly after that that we spotted the mating rattlesnakes. And then left them to their own devices. Although I'm sure there's an omen in there somewhere.
Posting on the road home to Albuquerque from Bandelier National Monument.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
squab, take two
So we'll keep this one short.
This is where the pigeons roost before they become dinner.
The end.
Shot at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM. Posting by cameraphone from Albuquerque, NM.
Posting by phone from Santa Fe, NM
Monday, August 27, 2007
rovers on
Yep. Still mopping up. (Wait'll you still the Nikon stills...)
Shot on cameraphone at the long ago deserted Frontier Drive-in, RV Park and Diner in Center, CO
Posting by cameraphone down the road in Monte Vista, CO while waiting for some tamales smothered in green sauce.
Happy, happy, happy.
game on
I'm not a big sports fan, but I am a big sister, and I'm a huge fan of my little brother who gigs for the Broncos now that he's all grown up (the man has three almost four kids already -- guess that counts as all grown up).
Flew into Denver yesterday AM, hung out with the family, and then headed over to the stadium to see Game 1 of the Bronco pre-season -- ostensibly. But mostly really to see my brother do his thing as the producer of the video content that runs on the ThunderVision board for the duration of the game.
And then tour the control room and the press box and his offices afterwards, and hear silly stadium trivia like: they used to have to climb right up to the giant monitor to flip the switch that lowered the protective metal guard, but then they had stadium engineering rig a run-of-the-mill garage door opener to handle the task -- so now after the game they just pull out the garage door remote and lower the guard on the multi-million dollar video panel from inside the control room.
And there's also the mouth guard -- if you've been to the new Invesco Field in Denver you know that sculptures of football gear writ large litter the promenade up to the main entrance -- but maybe you didn't know that the gigantic mouth guard is the actual impression of Terrell Davis's teeth.
All fun. But the best part was heading back to the homestead, sleeping late this morning and waking up to a pancake breakfast prepared with careful attention by my young nieces, swapping stories and laughing with my family.
Home again.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
at Mile High, but watching the sunset
behind the Rockies is easing the pain.
Posting by cameraphone from Invesco Field
in Denver, CO, where my brother's pulling his
shift (more pics on that later).
Good to be at altitude again.
a summer Sunday in Prague
we were at
at high mass
on a summer Sunday
in Prague
sitting below
a large bishop
in a swingy skirt
bottomed off
with gold booties
his moves had
a sort of stripper
quality to them
Found in Justine Hardy's "Guilt in the Golden City" in the 25 August issue of The Financial Times.
Posting by cameraphone enroute to DIA.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Shot in Santa Cruz, CA
Posting by cameraphone sometime after that.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
say cheese.
I took this shot during an intensely lonely moment as I clambered around the tiny island of Agathonissi in the Dodecanese many years ago. (God that sounds rich and privileged, doesn't it? For what it's worth I was sailing on the cheap, in a trade for work.)
I was reminded of it recently while exchanging notes on goats and their cheese with a Flickr friend, but here's why I'm posting it: When I took it, with this grandmother's kind permission, the plastic bag bothered me; broke the pastoral perfection that I was hoping for. Now it's my favorite part of the image. Nearly a punctum. Not quite, but gives me hope that I'll get there some day.
And just down the hill on that tiny little island in the very moment this image was taken were two strangers who, within hours, I would share glances of recognition, and then over a week we would decide that yes, we'll know each other for a while, and now going on years I gratefully count them as friends I would never want to live with out.
Life's funny like that: Matters of great importance waiting for you just a little way down the hill.
the moon is not yet dead
The moon is not yet dead, nor has it revealed all its secrets.
Found, and then quickly lost again, in digg labs' big spy.
The zeitgeist of which I could watch, mesmerized, for hours at a stretch.
(Swarmin' and stackin' are fun too.)
speaking of the not so scientific
[Magic is] the theatrical linking of a cause with an effect that has no basis in physical reality, but that -- in our hearts -- ought to.
Teller, of Penn and Teller, defining magic, as reported in Sleights of Mind: Science meets magic, playing on what we think we know in this morning's New York Times.
And if you're into wondering about how situational context teases the mind in magical ways, Who's Minding the Mind? from a few weeks back (same paper) makes for a great contrapuntal read.
Monday, August 20, 2007
manual control is a must
I sent this to two other inquiring souls. It may talk down to your experience level since I was unsure of theirs. I shot more this morning on the way to golf just as the sun was coming up. Quite a trick while doing the driving too. At least you don't look through the viewfinder. It's a real point-and-shoot technique.
Take a body cap (you better have one), drill a small hole in the center of it. Use a needle to prick a very small hole in a 3/4 or so inch square piece of semi-heavy paper (construction paper?). Tape this with the pin prick in the center of the hole you drilled on to the cap. That'll do it. Now you have a hole with a much smaller hole over it. You can not drill a small enough hole and you can not pin prick through a plastic body cover.
Then just experiment with the shutter speeds and ISO settings to get what you want from the effect. You have no aperture with a pinhole. It is what it is and it's maybe f/200 or smaller?? Ever heard of an aperture like that? All you can do is semi-long exposures. Nothing much faster than 1/15. You use the ISO settings to control the blur. At ISO 100 you must shoot at say, 1 second whereas at an ISO 800 it's 1/8. Also at higher ISO settings the pictures are more grainy.
Sounds complicated but it's not. I'm assuming you're using a good camera with manual control. If you're using a fully automatic amateur camera you're probably out of luck as it will simply not respond to only a lens cap being on the camera. Manual control is a must.
please won't you be
When you're playing and you're just you, powerful things happen.
Phone Phreak Joybubbles, née Joe Engressia, on why Mr. Rogers matters, as reported this morning in his obituary in the New York Times.
Mr. Engressia, a blind man with perfect pitch, was one of the first to hack the tone-based phone system with his whistles.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
I'm thinking now of the plums
Italian prunes
As I do each time
I tongue one
Tease out the moment
Before my teeth break
The flesh
Do now, a bowl before me
How you climbed
On the broad back
Of the rusted bus
To reach
The top branches
Pulled them out of the sunshine
Into the shade of the house
Your whole body a wag
Like a mutt ready to play
How our teeth tore
Through the tart skin
Wet from a quick tap bath
Into the sweet flesh
We devoured each
Its own counterpart
And then they were gone
More about TD4 »
Saturday, August 18, 2007
to dew or not to dew
Ed.: The World's Best Mechanical Engineer comments on the Mountain Dew packaging redesign
To Whom it May Concern,
Suttonhoo has informed me that Pepsi has decided to change the Mountain Dew bottle design temporarily to an aluminum bottle. She was afraid that it might disrupt the entire Joe Henry Engineering Test Program (and lord knows that program is far enough behind already).
And indeed she was right to be concerned.
Fortunately the shape of the Mountain Dew container was critical only in those experiments using cans. But there is a deeper underlying danger. The Mountain Dew advertising remains unclear about the disposition of Diet Mountain Dew. If they redesign those containers as well, you could accidentally procure a Diet Mountain Dew instead of
Mountain Dew.
There are probably people who think I'm a paid agent of Pepsi, bribed to sway the powerful Engineering market sector into buying Mountain Dew. But no, I do this out of a sense of civic duty. And it is this same sense of duty that drives me to say this: Diet Mountain Dew is a both vile and noxious substance. And it is potentially dangerous. I'm a guy who tries to suppress his conspiracy theories because there have been a few too many conspiracy theories in my family. But I'm going to run with this one for a second.
Aspartame was approved by the FDA after a very shaky bunch of tests involving contaminated control groups. The test mice showed the same number of brain tumors as the control group mice. But the number of brain tumors were above average for both groups. It turns out the control group food was contaminated..... with Aspartame.
Two years after Aspartame was released to market, the brain tumor rates in the US started climbing. This is correlation to be sure, not causation. Guess who was in charge of the company that made aspartame at that point? Donald Rumsfeld, Chief Machiavellian of our generation.
So we can't have our young potential engineers sucking down Aspartame for ten years before they even get to college.
The message here is to carefully check your label on that lustrous Mountain Dew bottle. Make sure your Mountain Dew is full of sugar (brain food) NOT Aspartame (brain killer).
As an added side note about Mountain Dew and the brain, some recent studies suggest that caffeine improves memory, especially in women.
Good catch Suttonhoo. Only your keen marketing mind [1] could detect this brand of subtle danger.
[1] Ed. You know I love you friend, otherwise I'd give you grief for calling mine a "marketing mind". Blech. ;)
love, dad.
(I love it that my dad's first language is music.)
Video: John Butler plays Searching for Heritage »
Friday, August 17, 2007
self-portrait as alien
When they start thin slicing the head with those MRIs, things start to get really weird, really fast.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
what miller learned from monroe
[She] taught him to spot an orphan
in a crowded room
to recognize
in [the] eyes
the bottomless loneliness
no parented person can know
Found in Arthur Miller's Missing Act in the September 2007 Vanity Fair. A heartbreaking account of how the playwright Arthur Miller institutionalized his son Daniel, who had Down syndrome, from birth. "She" is Miller's ex-wife, Marilyn Monroe, who was herself raised in foster care.
self-portrait as embryo
From an MRI I had taken a loooooooooooong time ago when they were looking for something that, fortunately, I didn't have. Everything turned up fine on the scans, so I called the lab and asked if I could have the film of my brain.
The guy on the other end of the line paused. No one's ever asked for that before. And then: Yeah. Sure. I guess.
'Cause why wouldn't you want an xray of your own brain if you knew that one existed?
Just now starting to mess around with it. More images might come of this. Or not.
something in the water
It's amazing how consistent people are in their politeness and empathy.
Netflix exec Michael Osier, speaking of folks from Portland, Oregon. Netflix just ramped up their call center operation just outside the city. They chose Portland over a long list of candidate cities because the people are well, just so nice. As reported in this morning's New York Times.
This one's for you, Ms. Anniemcq.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
pending consultation
A modification has been made to a component crucial to the experiments specified here by the World's Best Mechanical Engineer:
Mountain Dew has changed their packaging.
The World's Best Mechanical Engineer has been contacted, and his comment on this matter is pending.
buddha girl
My little niece K has always been a buddha girl. So self-possessed, calm, the oldest of three (soon to be four) kids, she looks out for the little ones -- lifting them down from ledges, sharing her meatball, making sure their drinks don't spill.
Always thinking about something, still and silent, searching the outward and internal horizons, then suddenly she'll launch into a story, and beam golden like the sun.
One of my dearest memories is when she was so small she was walking but not talking and I visited her and her folks (her daddy's my brother) bringing with me The Maestro Plays, a wonderful book by Bill Martin Jr. and Vladimir Radunsky.
She picked it up and brought it over to me, sitting next to me. We started to read. A few pages in she crawled into my lap, folding her legs and nestling in, turning the pages as we moved through the story. Two thirds of the way in, when the book got really good, she turned her whole face up at me, craning her neck straight back, watching me read and intonate the wonderful language that Martin and Radunsky use to tell Maestro's story.
I looked down in her eyes and kept on going. She stayed that way for what seemed like a really long time. Still, silent, joyful, curious.
Much later her mother told me an imaginary friend had appeared on the scene, and K named him Maestro.
So wonderful to watch her grow big and beautiful and searching. So glad to count her as family.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
mad skills
At the Trinity test site, as soon as he saw the blast, Fermi started ripping up little pieces of paper. At the very moment the shockwave from the blast arrived, it blew Fermi's paper scraps away. Fermi then took out a slide rule and said, "Ah, 12,000 tons of TNT." From the papers and position, he could calculate the explosive power of this new weapon.
Physicist Gino Segre, relating a story he heard from his Nobel Prize winning uncle Emilio Segre, about working with Fermi on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, in an interview in today's New York Times.
Monday, August 13, 2007
walking the bridge
Q. How do you shoot something that's been shot as relentlessly as the Golden Gate Bridge?
A. You just do it.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
valley of the moon, part two
When I tell folks I did some of my growing up in Sonoma -- a handful of years just before and after I turned five and a steady scattering of summers through junior high and high school -- they say "oooohhhh – Sonoma!" and it's that instant recognition that makes me suspect strongly that they're thinking wine country and tony tasting rooms and gourmet cheeses.
PR machine Sonoma.
Not my Sonoma.
My Sonoma is a hard working rural dusty pick up truck kind of place. Not that anyone in our family owned a pick up -- we were (and still largely are) VW people with a few leftover limos from the funeral home. But the neighbors did, including Shari's daddy who lived next door and delivered Shasta soda all over the Valley in his.
My Sonoma is my very first library -- the old Carnegie that's been converted to the visitor's center since -- on the central plaza just a block from our old home. My Sonoma is sleepy enough (or my hippie mother was just that unaware enough) that I walked the block alone when I was somewhere between 4 and 5 years old and tried to check out a stack of books of my own -- only to be told I needed to get myself a library card to get that done. Or bring a grownup with me next time.
My Sonoma is the sundial in the little rosette of a rose garden next to the library with the strange roman numerals that amazed me every time the sun was shining and I happened by because someone told me you could tell time with that thing. Of course, I couldn't. Didn't mean I was any less amazed.
It's the Sebastiani movie theatre with its classic marquee across the street, which thank god is still open and running; and it's the thick crusty loaves of sourdough that they made in the bakery next door (which, regrettably, is no longer there) that we ate with cheese and salami until it grew stale and my mom sliced it up for French toast on Sundays.
My Sonoma is the little house on East Napa with the porch flush to the foundation and the white picket fence with the gate ripe for standing on and swinging in endless repetitions whenever grown ups weren't around.
It was during one of those steady silent swinging meditations that I sorted out in my four year old mind that there were three kinds of humans: men, women, and babies. I racked and racked my brain expecting to find more, expecting people to be as varied as bird species. Looking back I can't figure out whether I was cloistered in a white world and wasn't exposed to other plumage, or if this was me at that age figuring out the sexual creature -- men and women being the mature and sexual, babies being the immature and asexual.
My money's on the sexual creature, because the house we lived in was ripe with sex, even though I wouldn't know it if I saw it, but you could feel it everywhere. Two other hippie couples lived there with my mother and the three of us kids. We were downstairs; they were in the upstairs rooms and the attached mother-in-law apartment out back. The memory of that house is what I insert whenever I come across a reference to "free love": soft and languid and a little bit lonely.
During that time my mother was exercising her 1970s post-divorce freedom with some, but maybe not enough, discretion. My memory of her pink birth control pill compact (with the bas-relief cameo) is crystalline, as is the conversation we had about it. My kindergarten self: What are these for? Her dewy soft still so beautiful self: Women take them so they won't have babies, which made me think too, for too long, that babies appeared like blisters unbidden, or aliens erupting, and had to be staved off like a fever is with baby aspirin.
My Sonoma is Shari's house, the old quasi-Victorian next door, with the garden out back where a nameless grown up (her mother, maybe?) coaxed me (I didn't want to do it) into eating a dusty cherry tomato warmed by the sun right off the vine and it exploded hot in my cheeks, sweet and unexpected, leaving me smiling and surprised. The same garden where we took turns behind her daddy on his motorbike racing the length of the lawn, and I scorched my naked calf against the hot pipe so that it turned red and blistered. Where her daddy dressed the injury and his strong tender hands made me ache for my daddy, who was far enough away to be a fiction to my friends.
Shari's house is a boutique now called être -- "to be." And our little clapboard house is a dance and art academy. The white picket fence is gone. I know because I walked past it this morning, a pit stop on my way to SFO, after burying my grandfather in Napa, after receiving hugs so tight and long and good from my nieces and nephews (ages almost 5 through 10) they left me with a weepy spot square between my breasts.
I wanted to walk through my Sonoma with a camera, giant woman that I am so many years since and so many more feet tall than I was then, and try to take pictures of what I remember it being; of what I remember I was.
And so I shot the sundial and the library and snatches of the mission and the barracks. I shot St. Francis Solano where my mother went to school before she married my father there, and I shot the little clapboard house where we lived after their divorce. I shot the lawn behind the courthouse in the central plaza where I tried to turn a cartwheel at my 5th birthday party.
And I shot the Creamery, which isn't the Creamery anymore, but was for a long time before it wasn't. It was an ice cream parlor -- more like a cavern -- owned by the Italian parents of a man my mother dated who would later marry her sister (such is a small town), where I stepped into the cool room from the heat of the summer and crossed the cold tile floor (in my memory I'm barefoot, which as a hippie kid was not an impossibility, and I can feel the cold tiles under my toes), and where J scooped me my first coffee ice cream cone, marking the moment from which I would forever forsake chocolate as my favorite.
This morning I shot it all quickly, feeling hurried and unsatisfied because I knew snapshots wouldn't capture the rush of emotions I feel in that town; the feeling of being small and alive and curious and full of excitement in a world full of warmth and light and deliciousness.
I swung on my first big kid's swing in this park, my aunt pushing me high and dive bombing beneath me, thrilling me with my first taste of danger. Hungry for more I tried a big kid move on the merry-go-round (the contraption is gone now), running to push it with the other kids and slipping as I jumped on board. I can still remember the chaos of light and shadow as I was pulled beneath it, the hot metal spinning overhead. The fear.
My first artichoke happened here; my first avocado; the slices of salami with the peppercorns that burned my mouth until I learned to pop them out before I rolled the fatty slippery slice and chewed it down.
I stopped short of shooting the golden hills lined with grapevines that roll around the valley because my wide angle lens isn't wide enough to capture their embrace, and it's the one that I want to really get right. Want to capture the way they warm you and hold you during the day. Want so much to capture the way they seem small while at the same time expansive when the night comes and the fragrance of the eucalyptus reminds you that the sun was just here a short time before.
Want to, but know I won't nearly ever be able to recapture the night I was five and felt wholly alive, hustled into a VW bug with crazy happy high school kids (my aunts and an uncle, all of them high on acid, I'd learn a lot of years later) and we chased down the harvest moon that hung heavy and ripe in the sky, so big and close you could touch it.
Chased it through the hills down the old highway, bouncing over railroad tracks where we held our hands to the roof to keep it up (a crazy tradition that I maintain today), laughing, speeding, never quite reaching, the moon warm to bursting, that moon that gives this valley its name.
video: Me at 5 in the backyard of the clapboard house »
[1] valley of the moon, part one
god is alive and well and available to answer your prayers
I know because Flickr finally upgraded their clunky old uploading interface -- and it's sweet.
Update 13 Sept: The New York Times is talking about it, too.
upside down you're turning me
Cameraphone shot of the rickety wooden Roar at Six Flags in
Vallejo, CA.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
headlands with cables
night by cameraphone through the cables of
the Golden Gate while walking the bridge.
Posting from Napa, CA.
Friday, August 10, 2007
ya basta
Yesterday, as I was spinning once again on my crossroad of options as I near the middle-distance of my life (this is mostly what I do these days), one of the fables startled awake in a far corner of my brain.
It involved a little boy with his hand in a jar of filberts. I had no idea what a filbert was when I was a kid and I never bothered to look it up like my dad encouraged me to, and in all honesty I don't think I could tell you today what a filbert is. (A nut maybe?)
The story played out something like this: the little boy wanted some filberts. He REALLY liked filberts, so he grabbed just as many as his hand could hold.
One problem: the neck of the jar was too tight, and he couldn't get his hand free, so he couldn't get those goddamn filberts out.
He fussed and fumed for awhile, generally feeling sorry for himself, until some wiser person who was a bit more in control of her passions happened by, witnessed the scene, and offered him some advice: "Take fewer filberts, you knucklehead."
He let about half of his filberts go, his hand came free, and he was at last able to enjoy his filberts. Whatever the hell a filbert is.
I hated that story when I was a kid -- I mourned for those lost filberts.
It took me just this long to finally figure out what was going on.
[1] Thank god for Bulfinch, which gave me a richer sense of how the sun-baked thyme on the hillsides carries through the air in Greece and made me want to go there. Or maybe it was Henry Miller. Different sun-baked scent.
(Queuing this up somewhere over the Rockies on Flight 451 inbound to SFO, so you'll have to forgive me for not looking up filberts -- wireless is off.)
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
oh dear.
Kids don't just ask for food from McDonald's. They actually believe that the chicken nugget they think is from McDonald's tastes better than an identical, unbranded nugget.(...)
We found that kids with more TVs in their homes and those who eat at McDonald's more frequently were even more likely to prefer the food in the McDonald's wrapper.
Thomas Robinson, director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, commenting in today's AdAge (McNuggets Are Good, but Branded McNuggets Are Even Better) on a study conducted in concert with Stanford University School of Medicine involving 63 Northern California children that showed that:
Kids aged 3 to 5, when presented with identical foods -- one in a McDonald's wrapper and the other without -- overwhelmingly rated the branded one as tasting better.
Spotted on the roof of my car on the way to work this morning. Posting by cameraphone.
Such lovely, lovely fishheads (and yes, some squid)[slideshow] »
The story of the artist, Annie Sessler, her fish prints, and the husband who hooks her subjects for her ran in this morning's New York Times.
leaving petrograd that september
a found poem
Anyone looking for a portent
might have noticed a ship
leaving Petrograd
that September
Carrying into exile
whose ideas
the regime found
The names involved are unfamiliar
The idealist philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev
The literary critic Yuli Aikhenvald
The religious thinker Semyon Frank
The sociologist Pitirim Sorokin
The medieval historian Lev Karsavin
The secret police officers
monitoring the launch
raised their hats in salute
as it left the harbor
We are all Russians.
Why is this happening?
In an interview
Trotsky carefully explained
the expulsions
were an act of mercy
Found in William Grimes' NYTimes review of Lesley Chamberlain's new book Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
fly girl, part 2
This funky vinyl bag (available at Unica) makes me giddy happy. Not enough to buy: I don't do vinyl. But I did once.
I was four and we lived in New York. My dad worked on the Avenue of the Americas at Elektra Records and I can still remember going to meet him for something or other -- I remember the sidewalks -- they were so big and full of cracks and I had the awesome responsibility of not breaking my mother's back -- but I don't remember the blind man selling pencils who I toddled up to, my Dad tells me, and who smiled when I did.
My first NY con man.
What I do remember is this bag: it was my very first handbag. Mine was PanAm blue and it came with a pair of pilot's wings. I don't know if my dad brought it home from a business trip, or my Grama brought it with her when she flew cross-country from Seattle to see my little brother G when he was born (and who was a source of great disappointment to me when my parents refused to name him Cindy as I requested).
But I knew it was an airlines bag, and I knew that airlines had something to do with far away and brand new everything, and I knew I wanted a piece of that. Even then.
Packing tonight, for the day after tomorrow. Pleasure this time (mostly). Nice change.
like Mark Spitz
Clearly Dr. Bronner was crazy in that wonderful way that only America makes possible. An endearing elder uncle, shilling product and philosophy with the best billboard available to him -- the label of his soap bottle -- squeezing every little ounce out of that sacred marketing real estate with statements like these:
1st: If I'm not for me, who am I? Nobody! 2nd: yes, if I'm only for me, what am I? Nothing! 3rd: If not now, when? Once more: Unless constructive-selfish I work hard, like Mark Spitz, perfecting first me, absolute nothing can help perfect me!! 4th...
Yes, there's more. Getcher self a bottle to read it all. Or just check out the label blow up here »
You may notice a not altogether faint resemblance to the cover of John Hodgman's book, Areas of My Expertise »
We used Dr. Bronner's soap when I was growing up as a hippie kid, and I got turned on to it again when we stayed at the uber-hip Hotel San Jose in Austin this last spring, and the bath was stocked with it. I've been back on the bottle ever since and, truthfully, it does the job right.
But if you take up the cause you'll want to be sure not to tote it with you when you're driving your girlfriend to an AA meeting in Orange County wearing a furry Russian hat -- as Dan Bolles of the Germs found out the hard way »
Video: Trailer for the recently released documentary, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox »
Monday, August 06, 2007
Just as the brain can upset the gut, the gut can also upset the brain. If you were chained to the toilet with cramps, you'd be upset, too.
Dr. Michael Gershon, professor of anatomy and cell biology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, as quoted in Complex and Hidden Brain in Gut Makes Stomachaches and Butterflies way back on 23 January 1996 in the New York Times.
Laid up with a killer belly ache today (I suspect it was the pasta fagioli) and even though I'm loading up my brain with all kinds of goodies (newpapers, magazines, books, blogs) it's gone on strike.
Sandra Blakesless's piece from way back when is my only excuse -- apparently, people really do think with their gut »
Saturday, August 04, 2007
climate change
beautiful women learn
not to speak of it
the way the climate changes
when they enter the room
the way men
square their shoulders
like mountains
favored by the sun
and rivals glower grey
like lower slopes
threatened by rain
beautiful women
learn not to speak of it
the breeze they stir
as doors open
eyes lift
women learn
not to speak of it
not of this
and then
not of the moment
(time's motion incorruptible)
when she enters
and leaves the room
Written on the occasion of my beautiful Grama's 88th birthday. The image is a (very poor) cameraphone shot of a pastel portrait that my grandfather made of my grandmother when they were dating.
Heading home this afternoon from Evanston, after a wonderful conversation with a friend, my mind strayed randomly to something I read once about Chagall's Self-portrait with Seven Fingers. It was this:
The mysterious extra fingers on his left hand can be explained by a Yiddish saying, whereby to do things with seven fingers means doing something really well and with all one's heart. [1]
Not so random, I guess, because the conversation of the morning was about exactly that: deciding to do a thing and then pouring your whole heart into it. Owning it. Giving it your full talent.
Because to do less it to set yourself up for later regret.
And then tonight, a Flickrite commented randomly on a photo that I posted a couple years back (July of 2005 -- it's rare that photos that deep in the stream receive attention) with a question about provenance. I pulled up the image to answer his question, and realized that here, in the impression of hands left by a Mayan artist around about 1000 B.C.E. -- were seven fingers.
Who knows if the artist intended the seven fingered impression, or if his hand just slipped. But for me, this night -- with Jung as my witness -- I took it to heart as a telling punctuation mark.
[1] From Phaidon's biography: Chagall
Above: Self-portrait with Seven Fingers by Chagall; Mayan artist unknown.
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo.
a found poem
My earliest exposure
to gardens and grounds
came [at] my grandparents' home
Among prodigious beds
of black-eyed susans
and hydrangeas
While planting tomatoes there
when I was eight
I uncovered a Moxie pop bottle
tilled under
40 years earlier
It was my first brush
with landscape archaeology
the field of remembrance
and conservation
I could scarcely ignore
the residue of history
Found in Charles A. Birnbaum's piece Cultivating Appreciation in the Summer 2007 issue of Dwell


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Upstairs Bathroom: Part 1
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Oh the upstairs bathroom. The eyesore of our home. The journey of remodeling it started with a leak. A pesky leak that resulted in us having to stop using the tub. I ripped out the affected tiled area four years so the moisture from the leak would dry out and so that no mold would grow. And there it sat while we decided what to do. During this waiting period I also decided to rip off the wainscoting that previous owners added. Maybe it is because we lived with it everyday, but it started to seem normal that our bath tub was out of order and the walls were ugly and patched. Do you ever grow bling to the unfinished projects in your house? I finally had had enough this winter and sat down … {READ MORE}
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It is officially SPRING! Spring means getting out of that hibernation state of mind and getting busy. Spring cleaning, yard work, and most importantly....projects!!! Today, since I am in the thick of ripping out old tile, I thought I would share with you a project from my book. It is one of my favorite ones and is pretty easy to do. And while we are chatting about my book, why don't we give away some copies? I am going to give away 10 copies of my book, Natural Accents, to five different people! Each winner gets a copy for themselves and a copy to share with someone. All you need to do is share this post with a friend that you think would like this book. You can … {READ MORE}
A Little Update…
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Oh man you guys! There are times when things are busy and I go crazy and there are times when things are busy and I love it. I think the warm weather and the sunshine have helped my attitude. We have been having record high temperatures (as in high 70s...in MARCH....in UTAH!) and it has been so nice! I have been working in my garden! Normally when I plant peas and other cold weather veggies it is a muddy mess and really cold. I don't really enjoy it. It is just something that has to be done. This time was glorious. I also transplanted my strawberries to a new spot in my garden. They haven't produced as well the last couple of years due to my lack of rotating them. We are also going to be … {READ MORE}
Home Office & Craft Room Tour
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Good morning! I get the pleasure of not only sharing my work space with you today but also the work spaces of 24 other bloggers! Crafts rooms and home offices galore for tons of inspiration! I finished my office space last year but only recently did the closet space. That felt like a room makeover all in its self! I'm kind of obsessed with old wood, black & white, and greenery. It's a little bit rustic and a little bit modern. And now I have a Donny and Marie song stuck in my head.... This desk was actually my dad's and I refinished it right after we moved into our house about 10 years ago. He passed away when I was 15 so I love having it in my own … {READ MORE}
St. Patrick's Day Decor { + FREE Printable}
By Stacy 3 Comments
My boys have been obsessed with St. Patrick's Day since they were tiny. I couldn't even tell you exactly why. Maybe it is the thought of catching a leprechaun or all the gold, but they have gotten really into a holiday that to be honest, I would probably have glossed over otherwise. Some years, I make rainbow bread! Maybe my boys love it so much because I am Irish on my mother's side and it is their heritage seeping out. Who knows. Because of their love of the holiday, I try to make an effort to celebrate it at least a little bit. I normally throw something together at the last second but this year I actually planned something ahead of … {READ MORE}
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You guys! It is almost SPRING! We are going to be in the 60's all the way up to 70 degrees this week and I am loving it. There is this period of time where it is not time to garden yet, but I am feeling energized and motivated to get something done. I usually put that energy towards a really good spring cleaning for the whole house. Along with scrubbing, I also set aside things to donate and things to sell at a yard sale. It is probably a good thing that I do this because once I start gardening, the inside of my house gets ignored! I wrote an article over on the HomeRight blog about deep cleaning. I gave a detailed list for each room of your house and I even have a cute FREE printable for … {READ MORE}
Glass Light Shade Vase: Three Ways!
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When I finished the bathroom in the basement, we couldn't do recessed lights because of all the pipes and such in the ceiling. I had to find light that didn't hang down very far from the ceiling since the ceiling is lower in the basement than upstairs and I have a tall husband. I have a love affair with seeded glass (glass with bubbles) and so I ordered some seeded glass light shades online. I ended up with an extra one and it has been sitting on the window ledge for almost two years collecting dust. Every time I get in the shower I see it sitting there and think that I should do something with it. I decided to make a vase out of it but never got around to it since I could not decide on … {READ MORE}
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Patrick Sharp went upstairs on the backhand in what would be the decider of a 2-1 shootout win for Dallas over the Winnipeg Jets. The loss ends a 5 game road trip for the Jets, who picked up 2 wins on that trek.
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Andrew Ladd was the lone Jet to score in the shootout, while Seguin and Sharp scored for Dallas.
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Reduce The Background Noise Of The Other Party When the area around the other party is noisy and it is difficult to hear, you can reduce the surrounding noise to make the speaker's voice easier to hear just by pressing the dedicated button.
You Can Even Use The Phone During A Power Failure During an electric power failure, you can supply the power stored in your handset to the base unit, so you can make calls for a certain period of time even when the power is out.
Easy Access To Necessary Functions The Smart Function Key flashes according to the situation. By pressing this key while it is flashing, you can play an answering machine message, or respond to a call. With the NR key you can easily: • Listen to New Messages • View the Caller List when there are Missed Calls • Answer the Call on Speakerphone • Answer the Incoming Call • Stop the Alarm Sound (Then Switch to Snooze Mode) • Stop Paging • Enable Noise Reduction During a Call
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Catch Answering Machine Calls Whether You Are At Home Or Away At Home: When a new message is recorded on the answering machine, the base unit can alert you with a sound. Furthermore, individual messages can be fast-forwarded or rewound. Away: When you are away, it can send an alert by a call to a pre-registered mobile phone or office phone. When you are alerted by a call, after you answer you can hear your new message.
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Note: See the buildpacks documentation for complete deployment guides specific to your app language or framework, such as the Getting Started Deploying Ruby on Rails Apps guide.
Overview of Deployment Process
You deploy an app to Cloud Foundry by running a cf push
command from the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI).
Refer to the Installing the cf CLI topic for more information.
Between the time that you run cf push
and the time that the app is available, Cloud Foundry performs the following tasks:
- Uploads and stores app files
- Examines and stores app metadata
- Creates a "droplet" (the Cloud Foundry unit of execution) for the app
- Selects an appropriate Diego cell to run the droplet
- Starts the app
For more information about the lifecycle of an app, see the Application Container Lifecycle topic.
An app that uses services, such as a database, messaging, or email server, is not fully functional until you provision the service and, if required, bind the service to the app. For more information about services, see the Services Overview topic.
Step 1: Prepare to Deploy
Before you deploy your app to Cloud Foundry, make sure that:
Your app is cloud-ready. Cloud Foundry behaviors related to file storage, HTTP sessions, and port usage may require modifications to your app.
All required app resources are uploaded. For example, you may need to include a database driver.
Extraneous files and artifacts are excluded from upload. You should explicitly exclude extraneous files that reside within your app directory structure, particularly if your app is large.
An instance of every service that your app needs has been created.
Your Cloud Foundry instance supports the type of app you are going to deploy, or you have the URL of an externally available buildpack that can stage the app.
For help preparing to deploy your app, see:
Step 2: Know Your Credentials and Target
Before you can push your app to Cloud Foundry you need to know:
- The API endpoint for your Cloud Foundry instance. Also known as the target URL, this is the URL of the Cloud Controller in your Elastic Runtime instance.
- Your username and password for your Cloud Foundry instance.
- The organization and space where you want to deploy your app. A Cloud Foundry workspace is organized into organizations, and within them, spaces. As a Cloud Foundry user, you have access to one or more organizations and spaces.
Step 3: (Optional) Configure Domains
Cloud Foundry directs requests to an app using a route, which is a URL made up of a host and a domain.
The name of an app is the default host for that app, unless you specify the host name with the
flag.Every app is deployed to an app space that belongs to a domain. Every Cloud Foundry instance has a default domain defined. You can specify a non-default, or custom, domain when deploying, provided that the domain is registered and is mapped to the organization which contains the target app space.
Note: CF allows app names, but not app URLs, to include underscores. CF converts underscores to hyphens when setting a default app URL from an app name.
The URL for your app must be unique from other apps hosted by Elastic Runtime. Use the following options with the cf CLI to help create a unique URL:
to assign a different HOST name for the app--random-route
to create a URL that includes the app name and random words
Note: Use cf help push
to view other options for this command.
For more information about domains, see Routes and Domains.
Step 4: Determine Deployment Options
Before you deploy, you need to decide on the following:
- Name: You can use any series of alpha-numeric characters, without spaces, as the name of your app.
- Instances: Generally speaking, the more instances you run, the less downtime your app will experience. If your app is still in development, running a single instance can simplify troubleshooting. For any production app, we recommend a minimum of two instances.
- Memory Limit: The maximum amount of memory that each instance of your
app can consume.
If an instance exceeds this limit, Cloud Foundry restarts the instance.
Note: Initially, Cloud Foundry immediately restarts any instances that exceed the memory limit. If an instance repeatedly exceeds the memory limit in a short period of time, Cloud Foundry delays restarting the instance.
- Start Command: This is the command that Cloud Foundry uses to start each instance of your app. This start command varies by app framework.
- Subdomain (host) and Domain: The route, which is the combination of subdomain and domain, must be globally unique. This is true whether you specify a portion of the route or allow Cloud Foundry to use defaults.
- Services: Apps can bind to services such as databases, messaging, and key-value stores. Apps are deployed into app spaces. An app can only bind to a service that has an existing instance in the target app space.
Define Deployment Options
You can define deployment options on the command line, in a manifest file, or
both together.
See Deploying with Application Manifests to learn how
app settings change from push to push, and how command-line options,
manifests, and commands like cf scale
When you deploy an app while it is running, Cloud Foundry stops all instances of that app and then deploys.
Users who try to run the app get a "404 not found" message while cf push
Stopping all instances is necessary to prevent two versions of your code from running at the same time.
A worst-case example would be deploying an update that involved a database
schema migration, because instances running the old code would not work and
users could lose data.
Cloud Foundry uploads all app files except version control files with
file extensions .svn
, .git
, and .darcs
To exclude other files from upload, specify them in a .cfignore
file in the
directory where you run the push command.
This technique is similar to using a .gitignore
For more information, see the Ignore Unnecessary Files When Pushing section of the Considerations for Designing and Running an Application in the Cloud topic.
For more information about the manifest file, see the Deploying with Application Manifests topic.
Configure Pre-Runtime Hooks
Note: The Java buildpack does not support pre-runtime hooks.
To configure pre-runtime hooks, create a file named .profile
and place it in the root of your app directory.
If the directory includes a .profile
script, then Cloud Foundry executes it immediately before each instance of your app starts.
Because the .profile
script executes after the buildpack, the script has access to the language runtime environment created by the buildpack.
Note: Your app root directory may also include a .profile.d
directory that contains bash scripts that perform initialization tasks for the buildpack.
Developers should not edit these scripts unless they are using a custom buildpack.
You can use the .profile
script to perform app-specific initialization tasks, such as setting custom environment variables.
Environment variables are key-value pairs defined at the operating system level.
These key-value pairs provide a way to configure the apps running on a system.
For example, any app can access the LANG environment variable to determine which language to use for error messages and instructions, collating sequences, and date formats.
To set an environment variable, add the appropriate bash commands to your .profile
file. See the example below.
# Set the default LANG for your apps
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Note: If you are using a PHP buildpack version prior to v4.3.18, the buildpack does not execute your PHP app's .profile
script. Your PHP app will host the .profile
script's contents.
This means that any PHP app staged using the affected PHP Buildpack versions can leak credentials placed in the .profile
Step 5: Push the App
Run the following command to deploy an app without a manifest:
cf push APP-NAME
If you provide the app name in a manifest, you can reduce the command to
cf push
See Deploying with Application Manifests.
Because all you have provided is the name of your app, cf push
sets the
number of instances, amount of memory, and other attributes of your app
to the default values.
You can also use command-line options to specify these and additional
The following transcript illustrates how Cloud Foundry assigns default values
to app when given a cf push
Note: When deploying your own apps, avoid generic names like my-app
. Cloud Foundry uses the app name to compose the route to the app, and deployment fails unless the app has a globally unique route.
$ cf push my-app Creating app my-app in org example-org / space development as email@example.com... OK Creating route my-app.shared-domain.example.com... OK Binding my-app.shared-domain.example.com to my-app... OK Uploading my-app... Uploading app: 560.1K, 9 files OK Starting app my-app in org example-org / space development as firstname.lastname@example.com... -----> Downloaded app package (552K) OK -----> Using Ruby version: ruby-1.9.3 -----> Installing dependencies using Bundler version 1.3.2 Running: bundle install --without development:test --path vendor/bundle --binstubs vendor/bundle/bin --deployment Installing rack (1.5.1) Installing rack-protection (1.3.2) Installing tilt (1.3.3) Installing sinatra (1.3.4) Using bundler (1.3.2) Updating files in vendor/cache Your bundle is complete! It was installed into ./vendor/bundle Cleaning up the bundler cache. -----> Uploading droplet (23M) 1 of 1 instances running App started Showing health and status for app my-app in org example-org / space development as firstname.lastname@example.com... OK requested state: started instances: 1/1 usage: 1G x 1 instances urls: my-app.shared-domain.example.com state since cpu memory disk #0 running 2014-01-24 05:07:18 PM 0.0% 18.5M of 1G 52.5M of 1G
Step 6: (Optional) Configure Service Connections
If you bound a service to the app that you deployed, you might need to configure your app with the service URL and credentials. For more information, see the specific documentation for your app framework:
Step 7: Troubleshoot Deployment Problems
If your app does not start on Cloud Foundry, first ensure that your app can run locally.
You can troubleshoot your app in the cloud using the cf CLI. See Troubleshoot Application Deployment and Health.


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PHYS16 – Lecture 25 Ch. 12 Static Equilibrium
Static Equilibrium pre-question In an iron cross the gymnast is able to lift his weight with perfectly horizontal arms by: A)Tensile forces – he pushes outward B)Compressive forces – the rings pushes inward C)Nonconservative forces – the gymnast uses his muscles D)None of the above. The iron cross does not require perfectly horizontal arms.
Simple Machines – levers Static Equilibrium – Center of Gravity – Newton's Second law for torques and forces Ch. 12 Static Equilibrium
Simple Machine: Lever Lever is a machine that improves mechanical advantage by using rotation In a lever the applied force can be reduced by increasing the distance between force and fulcrum Increasing r allows for decreasing F
Example Question: Lifting students If the fulcrum is placed in the middle it takes me 1 kN of force to lift two students. Now, if I place the fulcrum such that it is ¾ of the way from my end, how much force do I need? A third of the force!
Three kinds of levers: Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW7ztbwJ KBk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW7ztbwJ KBk This movie reminds me of a high school film strip, but is useful…
Three Kinds of Levers Manahoran Lectures, Harvard
Gain a Mechanical Advantage? Same Force! No!
Gain a Mechanical Advantage? Yes! No!
Gain a Mechanical Advantage? Yes!
Example Question: Biceps Mindy and Meredith each hold 35 kg at a distance of 35 cm from elbow. But Mindy's bicep muscle is attached 5 cm from the elbow joint whereas Meredith's is attached 8 cm from the joint. Whose biceps exerts more force? A)Mindy's biceps B)Meredith's biceps C)They exert the same force
Static Equilibrium
Forces should not cause linear acceleration Torques should not cause rotational acceleration Object has no rotational or linear motion
Strategy for solving problems Free Body Diagram – Identify all forces – Draw exactly where forces act – Draw which way forces point Define Axes Apply Force balance Apply Torque balance – Make sure to determine pivot correctly
Example: Iron Cross Photo © King (The Reluctant Curmudgeon) - www.kingdouglas.com/Kingwww.kingdouglas.com/ Draw the free body diagram…
Example: Identify the Pivot point A BC D A BC D resting on surface in space A B C D on platform A B C D on hinge
Example: Wheelbarrow I want to use a wheelbarrow to move 30 kg of yard waste with a center of mass 0.2 m from the wheel axle. If the handle is located at 1 m from the wheel axle what is the max force I would have to apply to keep the wheelbarrow lifted? What is my mechanical advantage? F=(30kg)(9.8 m/s^2)(0.2 m)/(1 m) = 60 N MA=(30kg)(9.8 m/s^2)/(60 N) = 5
Conclusions Levers use torque to lift a load, as the length of the lever arm increases the force needed decreases Static Equilibrium – both forces and torques on an object have to sum to zero
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Stan Garnett-John Suthers race (and others) get brutal thanks to serial killers and smears
"Who would you rather have protecting you? The man who unleashed a serial killer on Colorado, or Stan Garnett -- the man who put the killer away?"
That tag line from a new attack ad in the Colorado Attorney General's race puts aside any doubt that we're entering the campaign's critical smear-and-be-smeared phase. It's time to get all Willie Horton on your opponent. Last one into the mudwallow is a stone cold loser.
Boulder District Attorney Garnett's broadside is directed at incumbent John Suthers, who's not in the habit of introducing himself at cocktail parties as "the man who unleashed a serial killer on Colorado."
There are legitimate questions to be asked about the deal then-US Attorney Suthers approved back in 2002 that released Scott Kimball from prison to work as an FBI informant, particularly since recently unsealed documents suggest a greater involvement of Suthers's office in the Kimball case than was previously acknowledged.
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Kimball went on to be linked to at least four murders -- and, depending on who you believe, is still under investigation in several other disappearances of young women. Suthers has insisted he had a minimal role in the fiasco, and it seems clear the FBI has a lot to explain about its lax handling of their sketchy snitch. Yet several top prosecutors from Suthers' office also were involved in meetings or court hearings on Kimball's behalf, contradicting the AG's assertion that the matter "did not go to the higher levels of the U.S. Attorney's office."
Prosecutors promised a federal judge to keep Kimball on a "very tight leash." Instead, they unwittingly "unleashed" him to con his handlers and kill women. But do those circumstances justify the Hortonesque tone of Garnett's ad? (See the video in its entirety below).
Other low blows are being slung in various local races that, in other years, would hardly seem to merit such nastiness. I've written before about the oddly contentious coroner races in Colorado this year -- especially the slugfest in Arapahoe County that pits incumbent Michael Dobersen, a veteran forensic pathologist, against attorney Jay Ledbetter.
It's Rambo versus Quincy. Dobersen has a national reputation in his field; Ledbetter has raised some fair-game questions about outside work Dobersen performs and the degree to which the county is compensated for his efforts. But he also has proven to be a practitioner of what James Ellroy would call "insinnuendo" -- stuff that isn't necessarily false but can be terribly misleading, like some statements on his website about his military career that imply he's an Air Force Academy graduate (he's not) and saw front-line duty in Vietnam and Desert Storm (he didn't).
Ledbetter has also been compelled to retract a claim that Dobersen's staff "manipulates evidence in ongoing criminal trials," altering autopsy results "to convict an innocent person of crime rather than admit an error." That's a pretty serious allegation -- one that the former prosecutor made in campaign broadsides (and in e-mails to Westword) a month ago and then withdrew two weeks later, saying that he'd received bad information regarding a particular case.
Dobersen has filed a complaintwith AG Suthers ("the man who" -- ah, never mind) over the smear and has indicated he might also take the matter up with the state's Office of Attorney Regulation. If nothing else, the incident doesn't exactly attest to the challenger's talents as a crack death investigator.
Still four weeks of insinnuendo-slinging to go until election day. Time to keep your head down and an ample supply of wet-naps for quick cleanups.
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I suspect GM's stock price would shoot back up upon such an announcement, and there would be unprecedented anticipation for how Apple's co-founder, the visionary Steve Jobs, might bring the same type of innovation to the American automobile industry that he brought to the computer and communications and music industry.
Would it be enough and in time to save them? That I couldn't tell ya, but it'd be just about the best chance they'd have, I'd venture.
While I'm focused on this point, allow me to link back to my recent article asking why Congress hasn't asked GM about their popular, fully-electric car, the EV1, before trying to give them billions of dollars.
The company introduced the EV1 in California in 1996, before killing it inexplicably three years later and, literally, shredding every last one of the much-sought-after vehicles. Several excellent comments left by readers on that article, also look into the related mystery of Texaco having purchased the patent for the second generation battery for the car. The purchase occurred at nearly the same time as the EV1 was taken off the market. The new battery technology is said to have had a superbly long life on a single charge. The purchase effectively took the battery off the market --- has it been heard from since?
Texaco itself was purchased by Chevron just days after they'd bought the rights to the battery in 2000. At the time of the purchase, as coincidence would have it, Condoleeza Rice was on Chevron's board, and Andy Card was GM's VP of Government Relations, according to Wikipedia, where he served until he was selected as George W. Bush's Chief of Staff. Prior to that, from '93 to '98, Card had been President and CEO of the American Automobile Manufacturers Assoc. (AAMA), representing GM, Ford and Chrysler. All just coincidences, of course.
But back to the main point of this item...If Steve Jobs is disinclined to leave Apple, the company he co-founded, in order to take the reins as CEO of the floundering GM, then I suppose I could revise the headline of this piece to read instead:
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Just sayin'.
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Delicious semi homemade chocolate cake with raspberry and buttercream filling and icing, topped with fresh raspberries and shaved Velrona chocolate . I added 1/2 cup of quinoa flower to a recipe of dark chocolate cake mix , used 1 cup of milk, 1 stick of non salted butter, 1/4 cup of sour cream full fat, 3 eggs, 2 tsp of real vanilla extract.
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I have an old board that's not shaped really well and rides like $hit... I have never shaped a board before but I would like to acquire another hobby and try and shape my own board. Let's be real here, this might/probably is going to end in disaster but you don't know until you try.
Could I take a board and cut it down, pretty much reshape the whole thing? I would be using this old board as a blank/base and cut/sand/re-glass it into the creation I have in my head. I've done some glassing in the past but I would really like to create some sort of, as Dane Reynolds callls them, dumster diver. Anyone have any insight on this for me?
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Yeah dude you can pull it off. I did that to an old byrne. In my situation I removed all the glass. The board was delamed all over so it wasn't a big deal. I re-shaped a 6' squash into a 5'10 swallow with a decent amount of taper. The board wasn't perfect but it rode decent.
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It can be done. Just be careful around the nose and tail since thats where the glass is overlapped and the strongest. If not careful it can tear some of the foam off with it.
thanks guys! Looks like I'm going to have to start this little project... I'll prob post up my progress as time goes on.
How do you de-glass a board? All sanding?
You can take a utility knife and score a large checkerboard pattern. Then carefully remove each square one at a time. Getting the knife under the glass and slightly score till it comes up...should be able to peel it off by then. Like said previously be careful not to pull up some unwanted foam.
The board I did was severely delamed so it was real easy for me to get the glass off no problem.
If all goes well...you will have a decent shape to start from.Last edited by Aguaholic; Jan 29, 2010 at 07:35 PM.
my longboard snapped in half. so i'm taking the front half, about 42 inches long, and shaping it into a mini pod that i can surf and bodyboard on. i already took all the glass off but my problem is that i don't know how to glass a board. if there is anybody in the VB area that is good at doing this job? or is there anybody who can give me aqdvice on what to buy and how to do it?
I've reshaped boards and it works fine. Getting old glass off of the deck is easy, so is the bottom. The rails on the other hand can end in disaster so be careful at that point. Also I would start at the thickest part of the board with the most foam for the first place to start lifting the glass. You might need to slide something flat under there to get it started, after that it comes up pretty easily, be carefull though that's when you tend to gouge the foam. Once all the glass is off I usually sand down the blank a hair to get it all smooth and nice to work on. It is really cool to do this type of project because it looks so nice when your done and you saved about $80 on foam.
This is awsome. I have an 8' boat that is basically trashed because it was my 1st board. Think I am gonna try this.
not really any sanding at all in stripping glass of an old board. I use a grinder or dremel tool with a lilttle cutting wheel attachment and just cut a few lines lengthwise along the entire board just barely through the glass and into the foam. Then just peel the glass off in long strips. THEN sand out the small divots. The rails are harder because the foam really clings to the glass and tends to pull divots. You have to reshape the rails anyway. Figure on losing at least 1/2" minmum in board width, and 1/4 inch in thickness from the old board to the new one.
I think ive stripped and reshaped three.


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A momentous day- Nugget 2 walked Nugget 1 today! She insisted on holding his leash and walking him around the neighborhood, completely proud of herself, smiling from ear to ear and giggling whenever he played with the leash and tried to grab it in his mouth. Aaaaaaaaand there it is, I've never seen anything cuter in my life ;)
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Or rather, the bumps WERE back. I started writing this post in early December, when Captain broke out in a ton of those little skin bumps, but then I never got around to finishing or posting this. I had big plans to do a detailed search, track downs and provide tons of information on skin bumps and allergies in dogs in general and in Vizslas in particular.... and then suddenly, after only a few days, the bumps just went away on their own. And also, let's be honest- I just didn't have the time to do the research and write-up. But, I'm finally getting around to posting something, and figured I'd do a quick update, even if it's not the comprehensive resource I was planning to post. (FYI, you can see my previous posts on Vizsla allergies here: types of bumps and our first experience with allergies - in both posts, readers have left comments that may be useful to others experiencing these issues).
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Captain's First Year as a Big Brother
2014 was a big year for Captain's family. It marked the first full year that Captain was a big brother, that we had two nuggets in the household, that we shared in the amazingness of our littlest addition. It is also the least amount of blogging I've done, but.... you'll forgive me, I've been busy ;)
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