I was screwing around with my Pentax Optio W20 (a waterproof point-and-shoot that is, apparently, worth more now than what I payed for it a few years ago), and I rediscovered its time-lapse functionality.
The above movie was shot from pre-dawn to post-dusk from the balcony of the condo we’re staying in near Dillon, Colorado Continue reading
Including many like this one taken on approach to BFS, the Belfast International Airport.
I’ll be in Armagh for the next two weeks, so expect me to be curt on the phone ($1.25 per minute, fer cryin’ out loud). I’m taking a spare phone that I’ll try and get a SIM card for; I’ll … Continue reading
And my Flickr page is pretty much all Guam by now. Click the pic if you don’t believe me.
Sunrise/Sunset changes for January: Guam: Jan 1, 2008 6:44 AM 6:05 PM 11h 20m 45s + 0m 09s Jan 31, 2008 6:49 AM 6:21 PM 11h 32m 21s + 0m 33s Sunniness increases by 12 minutes Detroit: Jan 1, 2008 … Continue reading
I arrived late last night (early this morning, really) after 24 hours in airplanes and airports. First there was a 13 hour flight to Tokyo, then a layover (about 4 hours), and then over three hours to Guam. I showed … Continue reading
I am, apparently, the only passenger gold or better. Never seen this before. Mom and Mike are probably getting upgraded again.
On Saturday I set out for home (from Youngstown, OH) with the plan of using a stretch of, if memory serves, I-76 on my way back to Ann Arbor. I can usually hack 60 or so for as long as … Continue reading
I’m here at the Holiday Inn in ‘Boardman’ Ohio. Yup, them are scare-quotes. It turns out that ‘Boardman’ is a polite fiction used to separate the relatively polite part of Youngstown from the actual, blighted, Youngstown of downtown Youngstown reality. … Continue reading
One million miles.