Cool storm last night.
Friday, May 11, 2012
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New experience today – 129+F Wikipedia says the highest temperature recorded in Basra was 52C. Now the car was driving over a sunlit road, so it was recording a higher temperature than you would see over shaded ground, but it is only May.
Summer is going to be fun.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Fantomatik Orchestra performing at Halloween at Borgo a Mozzano
That’s our local butcher dancing with the cow’s head and eyeball.
(on youtube the video is available in 1080)
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Arriving in Italy we found our apartment had been squatted in by a swarm of hornets, probably through the chimney. It appeared they’d recently had a massive party and most, but not all had died.
We started a fire to clear the chimney and dispose of the corpses, which given how gigantic they were, was a lot of burning. By a lot, I mean dustpans full of hornets, some still crawling, at a time.
They could have been European Hornets, but the largest were closer to 5cm or so, fairly large even for European Hornets.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
I wish to thank everyone for their support in this brief moment of crisis.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Earthquake damage
Thursday, October 20, 2011
I went to see Scrapper, the documentary by Stephen Wassmann, that was showing as part of the SF Documentary Film Festival. It is the story of the people who live between the Salton Sea and the Chocolate Mountain Bombing Range and make a living gathering scrap metal off the range between bombing runs.
It’s quite a frank and intimate portrayal of some extremely eccentric characters. They spend their time divided between driving around the range gently prying the aluminum tail fins off unexploded ordinance, heating the booty over open fires to loosen the scrap-value-reducing steel rivets, and doing crystal meth and drinking, though the last activity isn’t so much divided from the former two.
The most entertaining character is an old guy who set up camp on the isolated East side of the range, far from humanity, and cruises around the range in a highly modified VW bug living a life pretty much straight out of the Road Warrior.
It is definitely a movie where every moment seems to balance precariously on the edge of a ravine or on a delicate trip wire on a 2,000# bomb that failed to release when it buried itself fins-deep in the desert sand.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Yes, the fire truck is on fire.
I smelled burning plastic from across the street and looked up to see a smoke plume coming out of the passenger cabin of the ladder truck across the street. They seem to have put it out before the truck burned. They are firemen after all.
Even better, it is parked in front of FDNY gifts.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The urban blackberries and raspberries are starting to fruit.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Or effective comarketing.
The ice cream is $5/gallon and the Diabetes is FREE!
