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The wading bird stands alone in a sheet of glass water so calm it feels more like sky than surface. Its long legs pierce the reflection, anchoring it between worlds, while the slender neck and sharp beak carve a quiet line of intent. This isn’t a casual stroll; this is a hunter at rest, a momentary pause in the endless calculus of survival. The muted blue‑gray plumage blends into the cool tones of the water, turning the bird into both subject and shadow, presence and echo.
The reflection doubles the story: one bird above, one below, perfectly aligned yet separated by that thin boundary between air and water. The negative space around it amplifies the solitude no reeds, no clutter, just pure, open calm. It’s a portrait of patience, of quiet focus, of a life lived in the margins where land and water meet. This image doesn’t shout; it hums, and the longer you look, the louder that calm becomes.
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On May 26, 1986, NS was just implementing some new operating procedures on the former Interstate Railroad. Coal did indeed move upgrade from Andover to Norton, even the steam days, but not to this extent. At least a portion of bituminous was routed to Miller Yard, Va., where it was interchanged with the Clinchfield for delivery to consignees in the Carolinas primarily. The creation of Norfolk Southern (and, CSX) changed the calculus on what the best routes might be to get maximum tonnage from A to B with (1) fewer crews, (2) less mileage, (3) faster velocity, and (4) lower operational costs.
One example is shown here as a unit coal train for Walnut Cove, N.C. (on the N&W's Roanoke-Winston Salem line) requires the services of six EMD six-motor hoods of both Southern and N&W prior ownership blasts through Blackwood, Va. I had climbed to the top of a single hopper spotted on the spur for a better photo angle (nothing I would recommend, but I was exactly half my current age at the time.
The going is actually easy here, but from Josephine to the top of the hill at Norton the grade will briefly reach nearly 3 percent at the top. The trotting speed at this point will be down to a literal crawl on the last quarter mile to the top. The use of pushers on the former Interstate was a new thing--a favorite train handling technique of the N&W that influenced operations on the new system.
A juvenile Little Blue Heron makes solving differential equations on the fly look like child's play on Horsepen Bayou.
Adder or Viper - Vipera berus
Crinan Canal - Scotland
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Man I love this series. Except for the really questionable entries that we don't talk about. Sealnoon just informed me that lego now makes the Birthday Boy hair in that earth-orange color and goddamn do I know what I'm gonna scour the earth for now.
Anyways, here's some figs.
Thompson: With a P, as in Pterodactyl.
Thomson: To be precise, "P", as in Psychology.
Tintin: Great Snakes!
Snowy: Arf!
Captain Haddock: Blistering Blue Barnacles!
Professor Calculus: A GOAT? ME!
lemme know what you think!
Do you prefer hands-on experience and discovery or do you rely on your manual?
I knew how to use the camera before I purchased it .. the manual is cool and I definitely refer to it when needed but in my opinion there is nothing like hands on experience and discovering what you can do on your own at times ...
P.S. I HATED math in high school!! Except Algebra because we had a really cool teacher!!
Sometimes. ..sad. ..Sometimes ...proud ..Sometimes. ...frantic. ...Sometimes so bleak...Sometimes. .calculus...Sometimes the thing we see when we close our eyes.
Another year is over for my Calculus students, and FINALLY, I will get a new textbook, one that is easy for students to read.
I know, I know, you are thinking that the sighting of an easy-to-read mathematics textbook, let alone calculus, is rarer than sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. I had some of my students look it over and some wanted to fail the class just so they could use the new textbook next year.
Happy FUTABday, everybody!
"Well, a crazy landscape already, Professor, and now what do you make of that??"
"It looks like 10:10, Tintin."
"Is there a meaning there?"
"Indeed! It is ten minutes past ten o'clock."
"Hm. Okay. I guess I was looking for something a bit more profound. I mean, the clock numbers are weird."
"They tend to ten ten to Tintin."
"You're... just making this up."
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
The Adventures of Tintin
Tintin Standing (Hands on hips)
PVC Figurine 6cm
Moulsinart
The Adventures of Tintin
Professor Calculus The Gardener
PVC Figurine 8cm
Moulsinart
The Adventures of Tintin
Snowy & His Bone
PVC Figurine 6cm
Moulsinart
In habitat near Bitterfontein. Still one of the most attractive species in my opinion. Large plants like these are quite scarce. Most plants observed had 3 to 6 heads.
Made with Art House Whimsy's Faces of Steampunk 2 and lots of bits and bobs from her other steampunk kits/ my stash. Finished with textures and colour grading.
I have a Christmas Party on Saturday Evening. Nothing "over the top" so I picked out something festive. You can never go wrong with a Prada bag. Versace is always nice for the holidays too. There is only one issue staring me in the face at the moment, as I look down. It looks to be an advanced calculus problem. How to get the items on the left hand side photo into the corset on the right hand side picture? So I asked my husband for assistance. He took a look and then looked again. Finally he said "Its a problem for NASA or the Russians to solve baby. Modern man hasn't come that far yet." End of discussion, back up went his newspaper.
Where's Howard Hughes when you need him? Can someone answer that for me?
… with a little help from a 35 year-old TI-37 Galaxy Solar calculator. I'd like to see how useful an iPhone or that laptop will be in 2054...
Algebra is very simple compared to its highly abstract mathematical cousin shown here. Alas, this conjures up bad memories of all but hitting a wall taking calculus in college.
Inktober 2020 - I'm definitely not inspired by this list. Or maybe I just don't have/take the time this challenge deserve.
That's what happens when one is acting the goat...
A very international collection of stones (Japan, China, Malaysia, Thailand, USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy) picked up from my travels (and with a little help from my friends).
Savate?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Calculus#/media/File:Calc...
We're Here: ICM - I like to move it! (intentional camera movement)
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
Photographed on the Knersvlakte near Gemsbokrivier (Vanrhynsdorp district, South Africa)
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