Where have I been? Austin!
Best “club” show: Classical guitar stars Duo Melis at the Northwest Hills United Methodist Church.
Best food this time: migas outside at Juanita’s (formerly a red caboose) at 1120 W. Fifth.
Best exercise: Urban Dare Austin (we came in 51st of 150-some). Close second: Frisbee challenge in Wii Sports Resort.
Best stroll: Along [...]
We in the Washington, DC, area have broken our total winter snowfall record, and it’s only Feb. 11. Right now we stand at 55.9 inches, far beyond our season average of 10.4 inches. (And at the moment, Baltimore’s 79.9 is beating Syracuse at 75.9 and Rochester at 63.9, according to Golden Snow Globe.)
Yesterday, just to [...]
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Posted 11 February 2010
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Snow is lovely, and shoveling can be fun. But I draw the line at storms that dump more snow after one has already cleared it away three times in 24 hours. Just saying. The flakes should stop, at least, while one is actively clearing them away. And DC, for sure, should never need to use [...]
Gifts from the spouse:
buds beneath
heavy snow on bough
spring will come
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Posted 03 February 2010
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We are in final edits on a cute little video showing some of the fun stuff people do to celebrate Brain Awareness Week, which this year will be March 15–21. It’s my first foray into video-making since the early 1980s, and I am quite a bit rusty, so this will be an “unauthorized” version, but [...]
This is down our street 12 hours after the 24+ hours of snow stopped (4 pm, Sunday, 12.20.2009). No driving today! The car at the corner turned back and didn’t come down the street.
Taking advantage of the camera’s POV.
Cleo is tired from a day of running from window to window.
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Posted 20 December 2009
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OK, so it’s an ad, but it’s only 1 min long. I like the “amazing pen-tip interface.”
Here’s an animation that offers another perspective on Picasso’s wrenching painting Guernica.
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Posted 27 November 2009
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I’m all about the video, for one more week. (24,000 words to go! 5 more days! Ack!) This is fun-zooming animation; next will be a very different zooming animation.
Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.
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Posted 25 November 2009
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I am still very busy, trying to get to 85,000 words by Nov. 30. It will be a squeaker, but I’m really hoping to get to the end of the story (and hoping that it’s around 85k). Last year, I wrote 60,000 words in November, but that got me only 7/8 through the story. I [...]