sun 04 feb 01
antique airplane photos. my fave - squirrelly as hell to get off the ground, but fast. then again, they're all faves ...
sun has made solaris 8 available for download. 836 megs; hope you've got a t3 ...
thanks, john, for the suggestion of the grain scoop. finally found one, and cut a wide swath in the leftover snow. holds just enough, without bending all over the place. i can get the motorcycle out of the garage now.
the hike wasn't really much of a hike. but we found out we have access to 4,000 private acres of land and trails. look for photos to come, as soon as the snow melts and the mud subsides. we hitched
with another couple of people who had a four-wheel drive. there's a fence to jump over, to get access to even more space that is state land, leased for ranching. i can't *wait* to get into trouble over there ...
people who've been there were talking about abandoned railroad bridges and corrals ... ruins of convents and wagon trails (possibly original spanish?) ...
nytimes looks at wicca ... then again, not really.
nytimes: friends in europe will enjoy this: in lieu of manners. looking at america's seeming love of litigation.
speakout: bush pays back the faithful. last couple of paragraphs point to interesting material, worthy of a little digging. it is appropriate to see how bush implemented these ideas in texas ...
motherjones: looking at 'star wars 2', the anti-ballistic missile system. with major portion of the nuclear arsenal in albuquerque, and los alamos just up the way, i really
wonder about the efficacy. if just *one* missile slips through, we're toast. gone. erased from the planet. dangerousmeta would change to deadmeta (reshuffle the letters).
i guess if i keep on this way, i'd best get the image downloads off the front page, and into galleries. don't want to annoy folks. these are photos from a trove of b&w negatives i just found in my closet. i apparently took these in high school. for those who don't know why i'm posting these things ...
"when from a long distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and
scattered; still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful,
the smell and taste of things, remain posed a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for the moment,
amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence,
the vast structure of recollection."
- marcel proust, remembrance of things past.
on our 'dutch door' in the back of our house, in princeton n.j.:
corel photo-paint on linux.
seven items on meerkat today; must *really* be a slow news day.
computeruser.com: tax status of nonprofits online.
for palm, a subway map of new york city.
responding to email: in that pic yesterday, you're right. one's on sominex, the other's taking nodoz ...
i've pretty much made up my mind. if i can scratch up the dough, or sell enough of my old equipment, i'll go for a canon powershot g1. from all the reviews, and from the various sample shots i've seen, it seems to give consistent quality. the rechargeable video battery just plain makes sense ... and it can be upgraded to a microdrive later.
scanned 49 negatives in two hours last night. images that i perceived as being great on the negative, tended to be so-so when turned positive. and obviously, i wasn't careful back then about wash water temp; there's some reticulation present. though, looking from a positive perspective, it gives an interesting patterning on some of the pix (oof).
going for a hike this morning at nine a.m. - the local community is displaying the various trailheads available in the area, as well as distributing some maps. this way, we'll be able to get into mischief on our own ...