I’m tired of working at a computer, tired of blogging, and tired of the Internet. I’m taking time off from all of it. I won’t be posting here, I won’t be answering e-mail, I won’t being doing any of it. I’ve turned off comments on all my posts but this one, and I likely won’t check this one any time soon.
I’m going to spend time with my family, takes some photos, see some country I haven’t seen before. I may be back, but don’t hold your breathe.
“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.” – Louis L’Amour
See you down the trail.
A very kind reader of mine just sent me a copy of Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s book, WordPress for Dummies
from my Amazon Wish List. This may sound like an odd book to put for a designer to want, but I believe in learning everything possible about my profession, and learning from a recognized expert is the way to go. Even thought I’ve used and designed for WordPress for several years, there’s always something more for me to learn. I’ve just started reading it, but it looks even better than I thought it would be. I’m looking forward to finishing it.
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I’m not sure why, but these two quotes struck me as particularly funny today.
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. – George Burns
Here’s something to think about. The Gun Free Zone Bill.
A. Any person, organization or entity, or any agency of government that creates a gun-free zone shall be liable for damages resulting from criminal conduct that occurs against an individual in such gun-free zone, if a reasonable person would believe that possession of a firearm could have helped the individual defend against such conduct…
I’ll be giving this some thought. At first glance I’d have to agree with the concept. I’ve always thought that posted gun-free zones were a bad idea. I have no problem with a lack of guns, but by defining an area or business as gun-free, you’re defining a safe target for someone who is interested in committing crime. Who in their right mind would put a sign on their house that said “This home safe to burglarize, even if we’re home!” That’s essentially what a gun-free zone does.
A hat-tip to Instapundit.com.
Adam Jahiel is In Search of The Last Cowboy. Now personally, I don’t think they’re quite rare enough to warrant that sort of search, but he’s taking some stunning photos along the way.
“Remuda, Spanish Ranch”, the opening photo of the The Last Cowboy gallery is one of my favorites, though Rancho Grande is quite stunning as well. I learned to work horses in a round pen that looked just like that. That brings back a lot of good memories, and a few painful ones. Go take a look through his galleries.
Thanks to Jan of CascadeExposures for sending me the link.
One of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid is being made into a movie. It’s nice to see that the live action version seems to keep the cartoon-like feel of the original. I’m looking forward to Speed Racer.
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Typical of this week, everything has to be more difficult that it needs to be. I’ll be making my deadlines, but very little else is getting done. Good for business, bad for blogging. If I don’t get back here, have a nice weekend.
This was supposed to be the Thursday edition of Open House, but of course it’s Friday morning. So without further ado, this is the Friday edition of Open House, and comments and trackbacks are now open. If your site doesn’t support trackbacks, use the Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger.
Stumbled onto a fascinating story today.
“You mean to tell me that you went all the way to the Crimea because of one sentence written by Susan Sontag?” My friend Ron Rosenbaum seemed incredulous. I told him, “No, it was actually two sentences.”
That quote starts off the three part series of Errol Morris’ quest to find out the story behind the two different versions of Roger Fenton’s famous Crimean War photos of “The Valley of the Shadow of Death”. Which came first? Was one staged? A long story, but well worth it.
“While I was wrestling with these questions, it occurred to me that there was an even deeper question. How did Sontag know the sequence of the photographs? How did she know which photograph came first…”
The words that will likely stick with me the longest are a from Mr. Morris quoting Dennis Purcell.
“Certainly the more information we get, the higher the level of ignorance seems to be.” – DENNIS PURCELL
Update: For my own clarification, I used PhotoShop to highlight the differences between the two photos, using copies of the photos restored by Dennis Purcell that were made available by Errol Morris. While these aren’t the resolution necessary for minute evaluation, it does highlight the moved rocks and cannon balls in question. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Obviously some of the differences visible are changes in lighting caused by time and cloud cover, but the brightest points of this image are the items which seemed to move between the two photos.
Just because you’re jotting a short note to someone, doesn’t mean it can be incomprehensible gibberish. I’ve received a number of e-mails recently that look like they were typed by a child. These are supposed to be serious comments on a serious subject, and the author couldn’t take the time to write clearly. How am I supposed to take something seriously when upwards of half the words are misspelled?
Sure it may be just e-mail, but spelling does matter. Really, it does.
I love Multnomah Falls. Apparently other people do to.
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