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With five of us wedged into a wobbly, four-seater plane, this is a selection of shots from our sweaty one-hour flight from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to Novo Aripuana -even deeper in the Amazon- and back. Many thanks to Daniel, the pilot, for permitting the use of electronic devices. Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
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Amazon remembers every order you ever placed. My first order was on March 3, 2000. Here's what it contained:
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hedgehog and the Fox : An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, by Isaiah Berlin
Cocktail : The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century, by Paul Harrington, Laura Moorhead
I liked Red Mars, but never got around to reading the rest of the books in the series. The Hedgehog and the Fox was good too. I was reminded of this book recently in an excellent SALT podcast by Philip Tetlock called "Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs". The real winner in this batch is Cocktail, which I still reference regularly. This is no surprise though. I was already familiar with this same material from HotWired's Cocktail, which introduced me in 96-97 to what are still my three favorite drinks, the Gibson, the Rusty Nail, and the Sidecar.
Viewing the payment info and it said I used a gift certificate for that order. I searched my e-mail and found the original gift certificate. It was a gift from Diana, the same Diana I would start dating later that year.
Embarrassingly, the search also turned up the fact that this gift certificate originally expired before I cashed it in. Amazon was nice enough to send me this e-mail a month later:
We've discovered that you received a $INSERT_AMOUNT_HERE Amazon.com gift certificate, and that it expired without ever being redeemed.
That's no fun. So, as our gift to you, we're reactivating it.
In spite of the honkey-tonk mail merge that left in INSERT_AMOUNT_HERE, I was able to reactivate it and make my first purchase.
(via Matthew Oliphant)
With five of us wedged into a wobbly, four-seater plane, this is a selection of shots from our sweaty one-hour flight from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to Novo Aripuana -even deeper in the Amazon- and back. Many thanks to Daniel, the pilot, for permitting the use of electronic devices. Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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With five of us wedged into a wobbly, four-seater plane, this is a selection of shots from our sweaty one-hour flight from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to Novo Aripuana -even deeper in the Amazon- and back. Many thanks to Daniel, the pilot, for permitting the use of electronic devices. Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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"Oh the people you'll meet." I still remember when i met Kari in Seattle, must have been around 2009(?). She'd just taken an assignment to move to China and run the seller business there. I told her she'd also be in charge of FBA and she looked at me like I was speaking crazy talk. Was super fun to later move to China and hang with her and Steve. We came back and they stayed longer, but we've always kept in touch over the years.
With five of us wedged into a wobbly, four-seater plane, this is a selection of shots from our sweaty one-hour flight from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to Novo Aripuana -even deeper in the Amazon- and back. Many thanks to Daniel, the pilot, for permitting the use of electronic devices. Aerial view of Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
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Pictured at Sutton in Ashfield bus station on 19-04-21 is Stagecoach East Midland 18428 YN06 LLX on service to the Amazon Distribution Centre.
The Yagua are a people in northeastern Peru numbering approximately 3,000 to 4,000. Currently, they live near the Amazon, Napo, Putumayo and Yavari Rivers and their tributaries. Ethnographic descriptions of the Yagua are found in Fejos (1943) and P. Powlison (1985). The history and migrations of the Yagua are described in Chaumeil (1983). As of 2005, apparently some Yagua have migrated northward to Colombia, near the town of Leticia.
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2013 TAMU Applied Biodiversity Sciences Amazon Field School on the Tambopata River in the Peruvian Amazon
With five of us wedged into a wobbly, four-seater plane, this is a selection of shots from our sweaty one-hour flight from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to Novo Aripuana -even deeper in the Amazon- and back. Many thanks to Daniel, the pilot, for permitting the use of electronic devices. Aerial view of Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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I was unable to justify a Kindle Fire since its release because between my Kindle 3G and my iPad 2, the Kindle Fire at $200 seems to overlap and not really have a place for me. That, and I really don't care for Android OS. Well, I scored one of these refurb Kindle Fires from Amazon during their most recent Gold Box deal last week for an impossible-to-refuse $139, and I am absolutely enamoured with it (especially at that price point).
I am a technologist by trade and training and immediately fell head over heels for the Kindle 3G when I got one. The Kindle 3G for me is a chance and occasion to just read. No email, no apps or banner notifications to distract me - just a bunch of books for me to obsess over and lose myself in. It's an unhindered identity vacation with no distractions that threaten to disturb my fantasy and drag me back to reality. In our day and age where severe attention deficit disorder is encouraged in the workplace and euphemised as "the ability to multitask," this is a godsend.
My initial impressions of the Kindle Fire are as follows:
*The battery life is somewhat lacking so far - I will try turning off WiFi to see if this helps.
*I like the integration with Amazon's Prime streaming video service allowing for free movie/TV viewing, but really don't intend on using it much.
*The Kindle Fire parses PDF files very nicely - the added processing power of this device over my 3G is very obvious here - large PDFs work very well.
*Form factor is spectacular - there is a significant heft to the Fire and the size makes it very hold-able. I'm not saying the Fire wouldn't benefit from cutting some carbs and being put on a slight diet (especially as a travel device), but it's not bad enough for me to ding the device over.
*The screen is stunning (I have the brightness set pretty low, which I prefer)
*Power button configuration and location are awful. This has caught me by surprise a number of times already - I'll be reading and the Fire will prompt me with, "Shut down?" No, why would I want to do that - can't you see I'm reading here? Oh, right, I have the Fire resting on my lap and it the push-button switch got actuated. My 3G has a slider-type switch which is much harder to accidentally actuate. It's a bummer that the Fire doesn't have this.
*Android OS in general (not just on this device) is just sort of choppy and unpolished. General lagginess and frame-dropping detract from the overall experience. Luckily, this is mostly a non-issue when reading books, which is all I really want to use this device for.
*Why doesn't the Kindle app on this device have an alphabet legend on the side so I can quickly scroll from "About a Boy" to "The Sound and the Fury?" The Kindle app for iOS has this...which brings me to...
*There will be no other Kindle Fire vs iPad points here. To me, the two devices are completely different once you look past the fact that they are multitouch tablets, have apps, etc. The Kindle Fire (for me, at least) is first and foremost a reading device. It excels at this, just like the other Kindles. The iPad was designed to rule the post-PC world and to free people from their laptops. The Kindle app for iOS is very good. Hardware-wise, the iPad is also very good. I struggle with finding a place for the iPad in my life, though. Without the requisite productivity apps that most have come to depend on in their lives (namely, the Microsoft Office suite), I don't find it a suitable replacement to my laptop and when at home, I'd rather watch Netflix or movies on my TV or listen to tunes on my stereo (so it doesn't fill the multimedia niche for me, either). As someone who spends very little time on Facebook and Twitter, I really only use my iPad for FaceTime and email reading. Sad but true.
*Oh, one thing I forgot to mention - my "refurbished" unit is visually (and I would assume functionally) indistinguishable from factory new. Came in the factory box and came completely scratch and blemish free. If it even had the slightest hairline scratch anywhere, I would've noticed because I'm batshit crazy about things like that.
Riding on the Amazon River. This photo was published in a catalog for Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Advertising 'Biology of the Amazon.'
The old art deco Amazon.com building in Seattle, Washington.
I'm off on the second leg of my photo tour with my client Marty. Marty and I shot a sunrise at Vista House and the major waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge. Marty has never been to the gorge and was blown away by it. He is shooting stereo views and so has a rig set up with two cameras. Quite the deal.
We'll be shooting Mount Hood today, starting with a sunrise at Trillium.
Have a great day and I will hope to get back to checking out your my contacts photos soon.
Most of the nutrients in the Amazon are trapped in its biomass — so there's no need to invest in deep roots.
Entrepreneur, author and speaker Bryan Eisenberg discusses why Amazon dominates every business and how companies can leverage four pillars to thrive.
Learn more at www.worktruckshow.com.
23.12.2012: detail from Attic red-figure neck amphora an dlid depicting Theseus attacking an Amazon, Athens, c440, Museum of Israel.
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