Pic of the Day: Beautiful Sunset
Images, Stephen on July 7, 2011 @ 5:39 pm — 0 comments
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Pic of the day: Starting my work day in Hamburg
Images, Stephen on June 23, 2011 @ 12:52 am — 0 comments
Be careful in what order you upload pics to facebook
Images, juxtapositions, miscommunication — Stephen on May 16, 2011 @ 10:49 am — 1 comment
Meaning is often found in the juxtaposition of things. The following example is a case in point. Although I am sure my friend Fauzi didn’t intend to imply that he had fried up his cat in some exotic culinary creation, that was exactly the image I got from this part of my friend’s facebook feed:
Catskills mini trip
Images,Satori, ruins — Stephen on May 6, 2011 @ 7:58 am — 0 comments
I have friends in town from Europe, and a couple of days ago we took a short trip up towards Woodstock and the Catskills. I had never been to this part of New York State (or very much outside NYC to be honest), so it was nice to have the opportunity to explore a bit. I had heard amazing things about Woodstock the town (not to be confused with Woodstock the music festival which was many miles away), but I have to admit it didn’t seem like much other than a sad, overpriced tourist trap for aging hippies. The surrounding towns were much more interesting, especially Kingston, the first capital of New York. And even better, the surrounding landscape was breathtakingly beautiful. Just outside of Woodstock is a wonderful trail to a lookout point with ruins of a fancy hotel and a fantastic view of the surrounding area. I uploaded a bunch of photos of the trip, so if you want to see them click below to go to the full album.
Pic of the day: 4 years ago
Images, India, tea — Stephen on February 25, 2011 @ 8:39 pm — 0 comments
Was looking through some old photos and came across this spectacular one from the tea plantations of south India, where I was 4 years ago…
Pity poor Neville…
Images, books — Stephen on December 23, 2010 @ 6:28 pm — 0 comments
I was cleaning out a few things today, and came across the always delightful “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” by Edward Gorey. It is a little book of line drawings with the names of children, one for each letter of the alphabet, and a description of how they perished. My favorite was (and always will be) Neville:
Pic of the day: Eclipse
Images, Stephen on December 21, 2010 @ 9:51 am — 0 comments
Last night was a lunar eclipse, one that happened to fall on the solstice. The last time such an event occurred was 1638 and the next time will be 2094. That pretty much put it into the once in a lifetime category. And never having seen a lunar eclipse, I decided to stay up late to watch it. Although several friends expressed interest during the day in watching it with me, as the hour became late, they began dropping like flies. Only one of my friends was geeky and sweet enough to join me in this endeavor, my friend Ric. He came over at about 2am, and we watched and took photos through the deepest part and out to a sliver as the eclipse was ending near 4am. I am kinda beat today but it was definitely worth it. And though our pictures are no great shakes, such an event really does make you marvel a bit about the physics of our universe.
