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Month: September 2006

  • Saltair

    Saltair

    Saltair Before digital, circa 1990 Copyright J Kearns Intentionally left scratched and pock marked. Saltair, “the cursed resort”, at Salt Lake, Utah. It was freezing cold. We were the only ones there. The briney air was near suffocating in its potency. We didn’t even know Saltair existed but coming upon it we immediately recognized it…

  • Fun with "Walking with Cavemen"

    You’ve got to wonder about people who post a number of comments to a blog in a short space of time, making some argument for a politician you’ve said something negative about, and in those comments they use a different name and email address, but each comment is branded by the same IP address. Were…

  • The Signs Were All Facing the Other Direction

    The Signs Were All Facing the Other Direction

    The signs were all facing the other direction Before digital

  • Little bitty flower sort of animation

    Below is a little-bitty sort-of animation H.o.p. did at the beginning of the summer. He is still not producing enough frames for anything. Because he didn’t have enough frames I helped him with fading inbetween shots to sort of make up for it. This basically shows he knows from where plants come. From the ground.…

  • Phoenix Subdivision Gateway Palms

    Phoenix Subdivision Gateway Palms

    Phoenix subdivision gateway palms Digital photo View On White

  • First day of school year for us was today

    We are eclectic homeschoolers, incorporating the traditional as it serves. Acknowledging that H.o.p. is ever and always learning we still set the first weekday after Labor Day as when our “schooling year” starts, which gives me the impetus to make August a month for gathering materials. We’ve been prepping the past couple of weeks, getting…

  • Red Rocks of Sedona, Coyotes and asphalt

    Red Rocks of Sedona, Coyotes and asphalt

    Red Rocks of Sedona, Coyotes and asphalt Digital photo with post production View On White

  • Tree and Path, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Tree and Path, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Tree and Path, Grand Canyon, Arizona Digital photo with post processing View On White

  • The groundwater is already contaminated

    The groundwater is already contaminated

    The LA Times reports today on the situation at Hanford: There is also an urgency to the mission, given the risk that radioactive waste will someday reach the Columbia River, the largest river in the West. About 1 million gallons of the waste has already leaked into the ground at Hanford, though government experts are…

  • USPS, you…

    It’s gotten impossible to get packages here through USPS. And Federal Express isn’t much better. We’ve had a number of packages to our home that sat down at the Post Office for I don’t know how long with our not even being notified they were there and we were lucky we ever got them. A…

  • The child experiments with being a waste basket metal-fueled robot

    The child experiments with being a waste basket metal-fueled robot

    The child experiments with being a waste basket metal-fueled robot, 2006 The child experiments with being a waste basket metal-fueled robot

  • So far so good with "Vroot Vroom"

    When ordering some extra math books, I’d seen that Singapore Math had a 3rd-4th grade math games CD, Vroot vroom. I went ahead and got it though it was expensive as hell, $31.50. I figured anything anything anything that might make numbers a little more interesting to H.o.p. was worth a try. He likes it.…