Friday, July 17th, 2009
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11:27 pm - Becaue I Can.....,
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I'm doing my own "cooking for one" for a while.
Tonight it was a hamburger, slow cooked in an iron skillet, smother in onions, also slow cooked over butter in that same skillet.
There was no cold beer available, so it was washed down with a Coke.
But, I did make it healthy. I ate it between two slices of toasted twelve grain bread!
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2:08 am - My Computer Desk is a Mess.....,
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I've been working on a photo project.
There was a midnight deadline for submission.
The uploading process is complex, and took nearly an hour. If it could go wrong - IT DID!
But, everything did make it, the entry was accepted, and the confirmation on my application fee was time stamped with ninety seconds to spare.
Not quite the way that I intended, but I'll live with it.
[No one ever asks the Doctor if that diploma on the wall came with "A"s or "C"s - it's only the result that counts.]
I'll know the result on this one in roughly six months. It's a long shot - over 1,000 very good competitors - but I'll challenge anyone, just for the fun of it, and I know that mine is good. That means that if they want it, they'll have to be better, and really that is what the whole of life is all about.
Me? I'm off to bed.
The cleanup can wait till morning.
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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10:27 pm - A Difficult One.....,
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There are at least three common words in the English Language that contain all five vowels.
One is an object that you probably own.
One of the others is descriptive and has all five in order.
Without doing a lookup - name at least two.
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8:54 pm - One Eyed Jack.....,
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6:55 pm - Plastic Money.....,
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I was in the City today and found metered on-street parking. I was just going to drop something off quickly, and certainly didn't need a lot or garage. They have a new sort - one machine in the middle of the block - that prints a timestamped receipt that you place on your dash.
I reached into my pocket and had no quarters. [$.25/15 minutes] It would take plastic and I used my debit card. To be sure, I spent $.75. Later I realized that it was probably the least amount that I've ever spent that way.
What is the lowest amount that you have ever spent - and why?
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1:46 pm - Six Windows on Market St......,
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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12:40 pm - Window with Vent.....,
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Another in the series.
I wish they had not placed the wire fence as a guard over it, but I'm happy with the result anyway.
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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2:59 pm - She's Cute....,
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
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12:17 am - ....and the answer to last night's question is -----,
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I was staring at this hole in the side of a hill.
.....and I was waiting for this to show up.
N&S #9403 leading a string of seventy five empty gondolas into the western entrance of the Gallitzian Tunnel. Completed in 1853, it was built by 400 Irish immigrants from County Cork. In combination with Horseshoe Curve on the other side, it opened up the western side of the Alleghenies to rail traffic. Before this was built, the only way to move cargo across the mountain was a six hour trip up an inclined plane, pulled by a cable, and powered by a stationary steam engine.
This is such a historic spot that the fence has deliberate, designed in openings to serve as camera ports. I had company. Another railfan was standing at the next port over. His wife was there as well. She had the good sense to have brought a novel along to read while we waited.
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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11:03 pm - Cyan & Yellow.....,
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Let's see:
It's another factory window.....
It has bricks and glass and color and is even reasonably pretty though possibly not particularly interesting.
I still have a lot more variants to edit.
I'm running out of inspiration for names.
The next may just be "Window # xxx."
Maybe I should switch to pond scum instead?
b/t/w - Interesting on this one. I pay a lot of attention to JPEG compression. Sometimes it can enhance and at other times it detracts. On this one, it brought the yellow up, which pleased me. But it also turned the frosting from a tinted white to a full cyan. I sort of liked it as original and will keep it that way in the print version.
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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2:23 am - Gallitzin.....,
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More bricks,
Another window,
And a bit of a mystery.
Who can tell me why I might have happened to take this picture?
Who can tell me without going to Google first?
....and who can tell me why I'm still posting at 2:30 in the morning?
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12:21 am - Closed Doors, and 124 Lights.....,
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I did not originally intend to do a windows series. But the more that I do, the more that I like how they are coming out.
Windows transmit in two directions.
Even with an industrial subject, from the outside in, it's just slightly voyeuristic.
I find that interesting.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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11:05 pm - GG1-4913
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If I wasn't posting here, you knew that I had to be off and up to something - with a camera in my hands of course.
I don't consider this to be photographic art, but it is certainly an example of one of the most beautiful industrial designs ever created. This is one of eighteen that are known to survive and was photographed yesterday where she was built in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
B/T/W ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gracegiver, the turntable behind her is fully functional.
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8:17 pm - The Quote of the Day.....,
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From a personal e-mail.....
"If it's a made for TV movie, starring Judith Light, you know your brain is being fried by Lifetime."
...the sender was male of course.
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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3:06 am - The Secrets of the Third Floor Chamber.....,
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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1:34 am - The Guardians.....,
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12:57 am - Some things Are Self Evident.....,
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I found this one in my wanderings.
There's a sign that says, "Do not cross bridge when covered by water."
Of course that begs the question, "Why did they build this so low in the first place?"
It's not exactly as if they didn't know that it would be subject to flooding. This is the combined Shenandoah Rivers [north and south forks], in Virginia, shortly before it melds with the Potomac at Harper's Ferry. Water here has been traveling for as much as 300 miles. I'm told there are several other similar bridges in the area.
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
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6:54 pm - Observation on the Way to Work.....,
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I work in a corporate campus.
One edge is a major river.
At the far end of our parking lot there's a small park.
For several years we've been a corporate co-sponsor of a summer concert series.
The first one is this evening, and they were setting up for it as I passed.
There were roughly ten DPW workers with shovels and scoops, clearing the grass because we share the lawn with geese, and geese are - well geese.
I was not the only observer.
Off to the side were five pair of geese - with goslings. There were probably about twenty five birds in all. They were patiently waiting for the humans to leave their lawn so that they could return to grazing.
I'm not sure who prevailed - but I wouldn't give you long odds on the humans.
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2:46 am - It's 2:47 AM.....,
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I just re-awoke.
The refrigerator looms.
There's left over pizza.
Should I eat the piece with the black olives or the piece with the sliced meatballs?
Decisions, Decisions.
You opinion counts......
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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11:48 am - Magenta & Blue.....,
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Sometimes there are "Happy Accidents". This is not at all as I originally envisioned it, but I like the result.
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