Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. The above is a timelapse video of some of the wildfires in the LA area. Frankly, it looks spookier than most of the other things coming out of Hollywood these days. Hat tip to Gawker. ..bruce w..
Your Saturday morning entertainment, with a hat tip to The American Spectator. ..bruce w..
As Rasmussen reports this morning: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval […]
I’ve got a new camera (a Nikon D-5000) and have been trying it out. This (above) is Howling Wingnut, known simply as Winnie. And here’s her sister, Barking Moonbat, aka Marti (short for Martian — which Sandra thought she looked like as a puppy): Here’s Winnie again, showing off her fierceness: Meanwhile, here’s Marti with […]
For the last three or four days, Winnie has spent much of her waking time standing out by this portion of the fence, staring along the side of the garage. She was trying to actually dig her way under the face — moving the rocks with her paws — which led me to put the […]
[Hat tip to Ace of Spades for the photo; no, that’s not me, but I wish it were.] Sandra and I are flying from Denver to Washington DC next month to march on the Capitol on 9/12. As someone who was a registered Democrat for 37 years until last fall, I am appalled at the […]
Three years ago, I participated in Project 2,996, an effort to remember all those killed in the 9/11 attacks. I was randomly assigned Rob Peraza; in the process of writing my tribute to him, I ended up having contact with his family and was able to express my heartfelt condolences to them. Project 2,996 is […]
The Obama/Joker image (above) was just the start. Combined with the “fishy e-mail” snitching request on the White House blog — a request of dubious legality and unquestionable bad taste — there are more images and videos coming out of the woodwork. The Obama/Joker poster above may have been inspired by this one from last […]
After four years of living in Colorado, Sandra and I decided it was time to do some local sightseeing. So we packed up some soda left over from our large BBQ, stopped by Safeway to pick up some picnic foods (cold fried chicken, potato salad, baked beans, and a few other things), and headed out […]
