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…it’s apparently because of network issues on the East Coast. If you have geek curiosity, the incident report for my web host is here: http://status.mediatemple.net/incidents/2258-east-coast-latency/
UPDATE: apparently it’s the server itself and not the network. “We’re working on it,” they say.
I’ve been remiss in posting photos of flowers this year; actually I’ve been somewhat remiss in even taking photos of flowers this year. Our burgundy day lillies came into their own this season but it seems that they went entirely unphotographed. Oh well; they’ll be back next year. The star this year may be the hibiscus, which apparently benefitted from–or was at least undaunted by–its first pruning, which I did last fall. The younger pale-purple clematis also put on quite a show.
Here’s a blog of photos of a young Japanese woman levitating: http://yowayowacamera.com/
I ran across this by accident on YouTube this morning. I first saw it several years ago but it’s still mind-blowing:
UPDATE: Sold!
Anybody need a 303 clone? As described here, here, and here, I built a x0xb0x about a year ago. It turns out that it hasn’t been getting much use so I think it’s time for it to go to a more appreciative home. It was built from a x0xsh0p.de kit with no modifications except that I used green LEDs for some indicators, and substituted longer standoffs so that the LEDs protrude from the panel. (IMHO it looks stupid to mount the LEDs so that they don’t come through the panel, which is how most kits seem to be built.) It’s in basically unused condition and works fine.
Asking price is $400; that includes an AC adapter and UPS Ground shipping within the lower 48 states. If you want a faster shipping method, or if you live in one of the two far-flung states, you cover the difference.
I vastly prefer PayPal. Sorry, no non-USA orders; shipping stuff out of this country has become too much of a hassle to be worth it.
We drove up to Ranchester, Wyoming last weekend to visit Tracie’s parents. While there I took some photos in the Tongue River Canyon, which is a few minutes’ drive from their house, which I’ve placed on my flickr page here.
There’s also a panoramic composite image stitched together from seven overlapping photos.
In case you’ve ever wondered what the flight deck of a real space ship (as opposed to, say, the Enterprise in its various incarnations) looks like, in detail, there’s a high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic photo of Discovery’s flight deck here.
Despite my recent ruminations about space exploration, the 21st century does sometimes produce some futuristic stuff. Flying cars, for example.
Apple released Lion today, and demonstrated once again that they really don’t care about the subset of their customers who use Apple computers to make music. Reports are rolling in of all sorts of things not working under Lion, including both hosts and plug-ins. Chris is testing our stuff and the major hosts today and posting his findings here. There’s also a report here at a site I’ve never heard of before today.
Long story short is that if you’re a musician, you may want to wait a bit before moving to OS 10.7.
I’m sitting here feeling a little bummed because I missed watching live coverage of the last-ever Space Shuttle launch (by about seven minutes). I’ve watched a number of launches and landings and I meant to pay attention during the last one, but I forgot.
I grew up during some of the best years of the US space program. I saw 2001 at a tender age and, as a kid, pretty much expected that I’d eventually travel in space–at least to a space station, if not to the moon. I watched Apollo launches and moon walks. I had a plastic model of the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission. My dad had a contest to predict the *cough cough* unplanned re-entry date of Skylab. I probably still have a photo somewhere of the first Space Shuttle, perched on top of a 747, clipped from the local newspaper. In recent years I’ve watched webcasts of Shuttle launches and space walks during the assembly of the ISS.