This was one of those random things I find on the Internet. Steve Winter, a photographer for National Geographic, used lasers and motion sensors to capture this wonderful image of a snow leopard in a snow storm in northern India.
Category Archives: Journal
Snow Leopard
03-Dec-09A Little Bit From “Lost Harvest”
01-Dec-09NaNoWriMo 2009 is over. I finished a rough draft of a novel, 51,563 words, over the thirty days of November. Here’s a little bit where Mayumi shows Cooper how it’s done. Hope you like it.
There were apple trees growing in front of Number One. A frontal assault was out of the question, but May showed [...]
Too Big To Fail
05-Nov-09And so the inevitable happened. The Yankees, a perfect symbol for these modern times, won the World Series.
I suppose I should congratulate all of the Yankees fans out there whose lives are now slightly better than mine (even if that’s only in their heads).
No, really: Congratulations. Even I could tell that you were rooting for [...]
The American Way of Life
06-Oct-09This bit has been floating around the Internet. Dastinct found it, here it is.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned [...]
I’m Moving
27-Aug-09In the real world, location is everything. Is it easy to get to? Is the water clean and plentiful? How’s the sun exposure? And the soil? Neighbors? At least, those are the questions you should be asking yourself, if thinking about a move. Plus a host of other things, including price, schools, taxes. Weather. Number [...]
