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Pasting from Bostonist: More MITardis: Doctor Who vs. Harvard?:
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Earlier today, we posted photographs of the scifi cult object that recently appeared on the roof of MIT building 7. After a closer inspection of the images, we have deciphered the text on the left door:
HACKER TELEPHONE
FREE FOR USE OF
HACKERS
ADVICE & ASSISTANCE
NOT REALLY OBTAINABLE
JACK & JAMES
MAY RESPOND TO CALLS
DO NOT OPEN
We've also learned, from Eric Schmiedl's gorgeous nighttime photographs, that the TARDIS lights up at night.
The blue box, when it initially materialized at MIT, seems to have been accompanied by a banner declaring the score:
THE DOCTOR - 1
HAHVAHD - 0
We know (because we're nerds) that the Doctor has longstanding feuds with the Master, Sontarans, Cybermen, Daleks, the Rani, and the Ice Warriors, and he owes Casanova a chicken, but—what sort of conflict does he have with Harvard University?
• • • • •
UPDATE: After The Doctor's visit to MIT, a Dalek showed up, too.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
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The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
I had an unexpected spike in views right after posting my few photos from Thanksgiving this year. Based on these spikes in views, apparently my most popular photo subjects are, in order, Go Play NW (geeks playing games), Fremont Solstice Parade (nude cyclists), and Thanksgiving (wholesome family dinners). Go figure.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
I love this building.
Without quite realizing it or intending to, I apparently have taken a liking to the architects behind this & some other buildings, Machado and Silvetti Associates. They've designed:
• Honan-Allston Branch, Boston Public Library
• One Western Avenue (OWA), Harvard Business School
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum
• Dewey Square, near South Station in Boston
That means that, of the work they've done in Massachusetts, the only one I've never really noticed is South Boston Waterfront Park, and now that I think about it, I think I actually have noticed it before, but have never had a chance to walk around there, as it's kind of in a weird area -- not much around there, mostly only accessible by car at this point, yet nowhere to really park & walk around. It's a neighborhood that'll probably be really built up & nice in 10 or 20 years, but for now, it's kind of an island off by itself.
But the other four, though not all without controversy (a lot of people hate OWA), I generally like. Maybe I should start paying attention here...
As foreseen by prophesy, summer pretty much gave up trying this year, so by the time fall started at the end of September, we already had cooler weather and the leaves were starting to change color. They're still mostly green for now, but I'm thinking of getting weekly photos until the leaves are gone just to get a better sense of the flow of the colors this time of year, which of course seems to have more change than any othr time.
I tried something different with this one. For most of these, as for most of the photos I take in general, I just leave the settings on automatic and fire away. (Because, really, what's the point of having a big fancy camera if you're just going to booger up your pictures with oddball manual settings, right? *cough*)
In this case, instead of automatic exposure, I locked in a f/3.5 aperture (the widest my main lens can do), which in turn meant a 1/1600 sec exposure. I kind of like how this brought out the sparklies in the reflection at the lower right, and everything is far enough away that depth of field wasn't really a problem. On the other hand, the trees at the right are darker in this version than the automatic exposure ones I took today, but then on the other other hand the details look sharper. In the end, I can't quite decide if I like this version more or less than others in the series, but if it's a failed experiment then it's a small failure.
Same scene, through the year:
* May 2009
Tracking the progression of the autumn foliage, from when the colors started to turn at the start of October, through when the leaves were all gone some time in November.
* October 2 (mostly green, boat, lens flare) (11th month of monthly photos here)
* October 9 (overcast, two boats)
* October 13 (raining)
* October 14 (sunny & crisp)
* October 15 (night mosiac)
* October 16 (colors fading, a boat)
* October 19 (still waters, lens flare)
* October 20 (still water, lens flare, boats)
* October 21 (rippled waters, no polarizer)
* October 22 (morning mist, boaters, sun)
* October 22 (evening headlights, fogged waters)
* October 26 (few clouds, colors blooming now)
* October 26 (evening, blue light, auto traffic)
* October 27 (grey skies, still waters)
* October 27 (evening, motion blur on waves)
* October 28 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 29 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 30 (lone boater on still water)
* November 2 (lone boater on cloud reflecting water)
* November 2 (evening view of clouds & traffic)
* November 3 (cloud-free sky over dappled waters) (12th month of monthly photos here)
* November 4 (cloud-free sky, dappled waters, lone boat)
* November 6 (grey skies, two boats, very brown trees)
* November 10 (grey skies, tree branches becoming visible)
* November 11 (blue skies, thin clouds, still waters)
* November 17 (bare trees, clear blue skies, still waters)
* November 18 (bare trees, dappled clouds in blue sky, rippled waters)
* November 20 (calm & partly cloudy, just after major morning rain)
* November 24 (light rain, grey skies)
* November 25 (fog & mist, like first photo a year ago)
* November 30 (crisp, grey, monochrome day, with boat)
* December 2 (no clouds & very, very still waters)
* December 3 (warm day after overnight storms, no clouds, rippled water, geese) (1st year / 13th month of photos here)
Fenway Park has had various configurations for the section high above home plate.
When the section was built in 1988, it was the 600 Club, named for the 600 seats enclosed behind the glass. As of the 2002 season, it was renamed the .406 Club in honor of Ted Williams and his 1941 batting average. That's the name the section had when Kaite & I got to attend a game in May, 2005. Later, the section was remodeled, the glass wall was removed, and it was renamed after local companies EMC and State Street Bank.
Anyway, as for this game, it was the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles, who were in first place at the time, and won 8-1 that night. The Orioles ended up finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, while the Red Sox, who had won their first World Series in 86 years the year before, ended up (per Wikipedia):
The Boston Red Sox' 2005 season included the Boston Red Sox attempting to win the American League East in the American League. The Red Sox finished 95-67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but although the Yankees had won more previous games, they won the American League East and the Red Sox had to settle for the American League Wild Card.
This one was pretty cool, and doesn't come across well in the photo.
The image is on a curved plastic strip that continually changes as you move from side to side. Moving from left to right, the woman raises her hand, blows you a kiss, drops her hand, then winks at you.
According to Boston.com's MIT Museum gallery, it's a piece titled "Kiss", by Lloyd G. Cross (1973).
I got a sequence of photos of it that I may do something with & upload later.
Pasting from Wikipedia about the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion:
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The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. It was developed from the CH-53 Sea Stallion, mainly by adding a third engine. Sailors and Marines commonly refer to the Super Stallion as the "Hurricane Maker" because of the downwash the helicopter generates. It was built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Marine Corps. The less common MH-53E Sea Dragon fills the United States Navy's need for long range mine sweeping or Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) missions, and perform heavy-lift duties for the Navy. The CH-53E/MH-53E are designated "S-80" by Sikorsky.
Back seat inventory: one (1) robot toy, possibly late-model Transformers, didn't recognize it; one (1) "Cars" movie themed pull-up diaper, unused; zero (0) car seats.
In this way, it reminded me a lot of my own car, except that we don't currently have any Transformers toys, we keep more than one spare Cars diaper on hand, and we keep our diaper-wearing child in a car seat.
YMMV.
Fenway Park has had various configurations for the section high above home plate.
When the section was built in 1988, it was the 600 Club, named for the 600 seats enclosed behind the glass. As of the 2002 season, it was renamed the .406 Club in honor of Ted Williams and his 1941 batting average. That's the name the section had when Kaite & I got to attend a game in May, 2005. Later, the section was remodeled, the glass wall was removed, and it was renamed after local companies EMC and State Street Bank.
Anyway, as for this game, it was the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles, who were in first place at the time, and won 8-1 that night. The Orioles ended up finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, while the Red Sox, who had won their first World Series in 86 years the year before, ended up (per Wikipedia):
The Boston Red Sox' 2005 season included the Boston Red Sox attempting to win the American League East in the American League. The Red Sox finished 95-67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but although the Yankees had won more previous games, they won the American League East and the Red Sox had to settle for the American League Wild Card.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
Same truck:
I've seen this thing around once or twice before, but this is the first time I've managed to get photos of it.
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
Taken at Panna II Indian restaurant, in New York City's East Village back in 2000.
At the top of a shared set of stairs is a pair of nearly identical Indian restaurants -- see the Google Maps street view to get the idea. Employees from both restaurants desperately want your business, so they stand at the top of the stairs serenading you with sitar music, offering free wine, free appetizers, etc to get you to come up those stairs and walk through their doors, and not the doors of those jerks next door. Both of the times I've been there -- almost a decade ago, sadly, but it doesn't seem to have changed -- the door employees would take this to the point of trying to physically pulling us into their restaurants, then sniping at each other after you made your pick.
The place has roughly the size & dimensions of a subway car -- long & narrow like that -- but overfilled with tables & chairs, so the walkway is really too narrow to be practical, so customers & staff are constantly climbing over each other to move back & forth through the restaurant. That and, as Alan says, the ceiling is draped everywhere with these "chili pepper" Christmas lights, so any adult of average height has no choice but to stoop down to walk through without getting tangled in the wiring.
It's awesome. A fire hazard catastrophe waiting to happen? Sure, but who cares? This much concentrated awesomeness is not to be trifled with.
I repeat: every restaurant should be decorated this way.
ALL OF THEM.
Without quite realizing it or intending to, I apparently have taken a liking to the architects behind this & some other buildings, Machado and Silvetti Associates. They've designed:
• Honan-Allston Branch, Boston Public Library
• One Western Avenue (OWA), Harvard Business School
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum
• Dewey Square, near South Station in Boston
That means that, of the work they've done in Massachusetts, the only one I've never really noticed is South Boston Waterfront Park, and now that I think about it, I think I actually have noticed it before, but have never had a chance to walk around there, as it's kind of in a weird area -- not much around there, mostly only accessible by car at this point, yet nowhere to really park & walk around. It's a neighborhood that'll probably be really built up & nice in 10 or 20 years, but for now, it's kind of an island off by itself.
But the other four, though not all without controversy (a lot of people hate OWA), I generally like. Maybe I should start paying attention here...
Okay, technically this photo is presented sideways, but I figured that was less annoying than having to make you twist your neck to read the label. You're welcome.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
A group of four F-15 fighter jets flew over Fenway Park for the Independence Day game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays.
While waiting for their cue for the flyover, the looped over Reading MA for what seemed like half an hour or longer, just swirling around & around.
Pasting from Bostonist: More MITardis: Doctor Who vs. Harvard?:
• • • • •
Earlier today, we posted photographs of the scifi cult object that recently appeared on the roof of MIT building 7. After a closer inspection of the images, we have deciphered the text on the left door:
HACKER TELEPHONE
FREE FOR USE OF
HACKERS
ADVICE & ASSISTANCE
NOT REALLY OBTAINABLE
JACK & JAMES
MAY RESPOND TO CALLS
DO NOT OPEN
We've also learned, from Eric Schmiedl's gorgeous nighttime photographs, that the TARDIS lights up at night.
The blue box, when it initially materialized at MIT, seems to have been accompanied by a banner declaring the score:
THE DOCTOR - 1
HAHVAHD - 0
We know (because we're nerds) that the Doctor has longstanding feuds with the Master, Sontarans, Cybermen, Daleks, the Rani, and the Ice Warriors, and he owes Casanova a chicken, but—what sort of conflict does he have with Harvard University?
• • • • •
UPDATE: After The Doctor's visit to MIT, a Dalek showed up, too.
Seemed to have functional plumbing too, but I didn't want to test it. Also, in hindsight, I'm not sure I would have known how to, either.
Got last minute tickets to the Celtics / Heat playoff game, so took The Boy to his first basketball game -- and by the third quarter, he already understood the sport better than his Dad. Good for him.
The Celtics ended up winning, 106-77, putting them up 2-0 in their series against Miami. Good for them, too :-)
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
Pictures taken on my two old Polaroid instant cameras.
The nicer one is a SX-70 collapsible SLR (yes!) that I got for $10 at a flea market in Mobile, Alabama. The other is a generic plastic one-step 600 styled model that was probably $10 new when it was made in the 80s or so, and was about $5 when I got it from a Mobile thrift store.
I have no idea which pictures came from which camera at this point, nor really when they were taken, where they were taken, or in many cases what it was actually a picture of.
In this case, it's obviously a coffee shop. I like the limited depth of field on this one, which in turn implies that this was probably the SX-70 rather than the 600, which I think tended to have a much wider depth of field.
There used to be a school with one of these placards near where I grew up.
It scared the dickens out of me for a long time.
If a nuclear attack happened, how was I supposed to get there in time, how was this little brick school going to withstand something that could level whole cities and vaporize or irradiate millions (well, it was rural, so hundreds) of people.
Even if by some miracle we managed to survive the initial blast & fallout, then would there be enough food in there to live off, or would I have to figure out how to be an Atomic Farmer in the aftermath?
As it turns out, I never had to find out. Close one though, watch that Reagan character, he's crafty.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have just signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. Heh heh."
Heh heh indeed you scary jerk.
Me: Uhh, isn't that a copy of another statue?
Shopkeeper: No, it's an original work.
Me: Well, okay, but it looks an awful lot like a well-known statue of Hercules.
Shopkeeper: Nope.
Me: Okay then. It's, uhhh.... "striking".
Shopkeeper: Thanks!
The lesson: never argue with a shopkeeper with a dragon on her side.
Got last minute tickets to the Celtics / Heat playoff game, so took The Boy to his first basketball game -- and by the third quarter, he already understood the sport better than his Dad. Good for him.
The Celtics ended up winning, 106-77, putting them up 2-0 in their series against Miami. Good for them, too :-)
Nice touches with the Bavarian "Hofbrauhaus" & hippie ones.
Made in China though. Of course.
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Seen on the Public Radio Player iPhone app's blog.
Pasting from Wikipedia about the AH-1 SuperCobra helicopter:
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The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army's attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service's primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
[...]
The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army's AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps's attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viper upgrade in the next decade.
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See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
Since posting the photo where I described how I am now able to predict stormy weather based on patterns on the sea [1], a few people commented that they would like to see what those patterns look like. It does not look like that it will rain for a couple of days, so I looked into my unprocessed archive to find an example.
I did not post it previously because I did not really like how this looks at full resolution, but it does illustrate the patterns quite well so here it is.
# Observed patterns
+ The wave forms are disjointed. Compare this to a sunny day, where the lines are continuous and smooth
+ The waves have heights and they are very closed by to each other. And so on a photographic capture they look almost like a dessert.
+ Clear wind patterns. You can see the wind blowing the water into these valleys (white on photo) in very thin lines. These thin lines then break the thicker wave forms (going horizontally).
Because how fast the water is traveling, it seems that I need to up the shutter speed next time, so I will remember that. I might also try an ND with this as it might be interesting. On a normal day it makes close to no difference photographing this as a long exposure or not because the water remains relatively still.
# SML Thank You
I am surprised by how many people actually read my photo descriptions, as evidenced by the comments left behind in direct response to things which I wrote. Thank you for your gentle encouragement and support. You rock! Lots of SML Love to you. :)
# Notes
1. “暴雨停 帆起航” / 香港吐露港日落之寧 Hong Kong Tolo Harbour Sunset Serenity / SML.20130516.6D.06572.P1.L1.BW: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8743553289/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-30T14:44:19+0800
+ Dimensions: 5333 x 3555
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 250
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'8" N 114°13'24" E
+ Location: SML Universe (Hong Kong) Limited
+ Subject: 香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong
+ Serial: SML.20130430.6D.03726.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“暴風前水的形態 Water patterns before the storm” / 香港吐露港之寧 Hong Kong Tolo Harbour Serenity / SML.20130430.6D.03726.BW
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #seascape #水 #Water #暴風 #Storms #自然 #Nature
Back seat inventory: one (1) robot toy, possibly late-model Transformers, didn't recognize it; one (1) "Cars" movie themed pull-up diaper, unused; zero (0) car seats.
In this way, it reminded me a lot of my own car, except that we don't currently have any Transformers toys, we keep more than one spare Cars diaper on hand, and we keep our diaper-wearing child in a car seat.
YMMV.
My favourite mobile telephone of all time the Nokia 3310 from my museum of items I no longer use but am reluctant to part with compared to my latest phone, a Samsung Galaxy S10+ smartphone.
As you can see cellphone/mobile telephone design and functionality has come a long way in the last 20 years.
My Nokia 3310 mobile phone was in service from late 2000 through to mid 2007 and I only stopped using it after reluctantly yielding to a bluetooth hands free equipped device.
Alas the 3310 no longer switches on or charges although all it would take to recommission would be to pop off the rear cover and insert a new battery. Something I wouldn't be able to do with the Samsung.
The S10+ replaced a S8+ a while back and to be honest it's not that much different in terms of features and not really worth the upgrade if you don't need to.
Got last minute tickets to the Celtics / Heat playoff game, so took The Boy to his first basketball game -- and by the third quarter, he already understood the sport better than his Dad. Good for him.
The Celtics ended up winning, 106-77, putting them up 2-0 in their series against Miami. Good for them, too :-)
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Seen on the SportsFan4 blog.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
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The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
One of three panorama shots taken while driving through New York City in December, 2008:
* NYC Panoramas: Manhattan & Brooklyn Bridges
"Of COURSE that's Venice, see the Gondola, and that bridge, and that tower thing?" (See this version of the same poster for more detail & less parallax, though regrettably I accidentally cut off the "San Marco" (*ahem*) tower in that version.)
"Sure, but since when did the Venetians rearrange their major landmarks to all be right next to each other? And since when is there a giant modern Harrah's casino on the Grand Canale?"
Call me crazy, but that looks like Las Vegas to me. Funny that the caption on the photo doesn't tell you that, while the London one clearly said Piccadilly Circus. Convenient, eh?
Fenway Park has had various configurations for the section high above home plate.
When the section was built in 1988, it was the 600 Club, named for the 600 seats enclosed behind the glass. As of the 2002 season, it was renamed the .406 Club in honor of Ted Williams and his 1941 batting average. That's the name the section had when Kaite & I got to attend a game in May, 2005. Later, the section was remodeled, the glass wall was removed, and it was renamed after local companies EMC and State Street Bank.
Anyway, as for this game, it was the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles, who were in first place at the time, and won 8-1 that night. The Orioles ended up finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, while the Red Sox, who had won their first World Series in 86 years the year before, ended up (per Wikipedia):
The Boston Red Sox' 2005 season included the Boston Red Sox attempting to win the American League East in the American League. The Red Sox finished 95-67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but although the Yankees had won more previous games, they won the American League East and the Red Sox had to settle for the American League Wild Card.
The place portrayed itself as a PIZZA shop from the streetfront, which is why my brothers wanted to try it.
Inside though, it was obvious that the place was run by people from the Indian subcontinent, and they had two completely separate menus -- pizza for the uninitiated, and a curry menu for the adventurous.
I already loved Indian food by then, so I went for that menu. My family had never tried it before, so they got the pizza. The pizza was okay, but the curry was fantastic.
When we came back the next day, I think everyone had the curry :-)
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Fast-forward to 2008, and it looks like now it's just a proper Indian restaurant, assuming it's the same Shashi:
www.indianfoodsguide.com/indian-food-guide/indian-restaur...
* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
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The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).