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My co-worker is really hilarious. He makes the funniest signs. I will miss sharing an office with him next year. His bathroom sign was the best though.
You fucking disappoint me.
“Dead as dead can be,” my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, ever the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become…my perfect enemy…
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I’ll walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
You’re better of this…you’re better off this…
Maybe you’re better off!
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I’ll walk away and say, “You fucking disappoint me!”
Maybe you’re better off this way
Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me!
Foveography combines active and passive methods:
- **Active phase:** Clients take pictures, for example, as part of the project “Tree as a Mirror of the Soul”, where shooting the remaining objects (birches, rivers) becomes a metaphor for their internal state.
An acoustic mirror is a passive device used to reflect and focus (concentrate) sound waves. Parabolic acoustic mirrors are widely used in parabolic microphones to pick up sound from great distances, employed in surveillance and reporting of outdoor sporting events. Pairs of large parabolic acoustic mirrors which function as "whisper galleries" are displayed in science museums to demonstrate sound focusing.
Between the World Wars, before the invention of radar, parabolic sound mirrors were used experimentally as early-warning devices by military air defence forces to detect incoming enemy aircraft by listening for the sound of their engines.
During World War II on the coast of southern England, a network of large concrete acoustic mirrors was in the process of being built when the project was cancelled owing to the development of the Chain Home radar system. Some of these mirrors are still standing today.
There are three acoustic mirrors in the complex, each consisting of a single concrete hemispherical reflector.
The 200 foot mirror is a near vertical, curved wall, 200 feet (60m) long. It is one of only two similar acoustic mirrors in the world, the other being in Magħtab, Malta.
200 ft Acoustic mirror at Denge
The 30 foot mirror is a circular dish, similar to a deeply curved satellite dish, 9 m (30 ft) across, supported on concrete buttresses. This mirror still retains the metal microphone pole at its centre.
The 20 foot mirror is similar to the 30 foot mirror, with a smaller, shallower dish 6 m (20 ft) across. The design is close to that of an acoustic mirror in Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Acoustic mirrors did work and could effectively be used to detect slow moving enemy aircraft before they came into sight. They worked by concentrating sound waves towards a central point, where a microphone would have been located. However, their use was limited as aircraft became faster. Operators also found it difficult to distinguish between aircraft and seagoing vessels. In any case, they quickly became obsolete due to the invention of radar in 1932. The experiment was abandoned, and the mirrors left to decay. The gravel extraction works caused some undermining of at least one of the structures.
The mirrors with the swing bridge visible in the foreground
The striking forms of the sound mirrors have attracted artists and photographers. British artist Tacita Dean created a film inspired by the complex. The band Turin Brakes featured the mirrors on some of their album covers. The object appeared in the music video for Blank & Jones' "A Forest".The mirrors have also been featured in the music videos for Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy & Young Kato - Something Real.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino
This picture has gotten a lot of play on my Getty Images account recently. It was used in a Christian women's magazine as an example of "sexy" (much to my surprise and amusement), as a book cover published in Croatia and will apparently be used in France as a web advertisement for a beverage of some sort.
Awesome!
N529NA Beech 200 Super King Air NASA Langley.
Departing to Valencia, Spain after a two week layover during which the aircraft was fitted with NASA Goddards SLAP (Scanning L band active/passive) sensor for gathering soil moisture data.
Shannon 11th July 2021
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Very pleased to have been asked to show some of my photos in this art magazine. Gracias Octavio.
Perhaps I should subtitle this photograph:
The Old and the New
or (just like the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons):
Nice Gneiss
This location is really exciting to my inner geo geek so, if you are like my daughters and wife, whose eyes start to glaze over when I start to talk about geology, just enjoy this panorama of one of the canyons emptying into the Badwater basin. But, if you would like to learn about the geology that created this vista, read on at your own peril:
This little canyon has exposed the contact between some of the oldest rocks in Death Valley (and the western United States) and some of the youngest in Death Valley. The right hand canyon wall is comprised of metamorphosed crystalline basement rock. These are very old rocks. They were formed and then put under a lot of heat and pressure and metamorphosed. The metamorphosis event has been dated to about 1.7 billion years ago so they were actually formed sometime before that. The 1.7 billion year date shows up a lot in the geology of the western U.S. That is probably because it is also accompanied by an extensive unconformity at its top that also covered much of the western U.S. So, to recap, the right hand rocks were formed and then deformed deep in the crust about 1.7 billion years ago then uplifted as part of a broad mountain building episode that covered a lot of the western U.S. The uplift caused erosion to remove any rocks that were deposited over the old metamorphosed crystalline basement rocks.
Eventually the uplift ceased and the western U.S. slowly built out the coastline in what we call a passive margin with just slow sediment deposition dominating the scene and no active uplifts. These rocks are largely carbonates (dolomites) and some pure quartz sandstones that occasionally flowed over the carbonate shallow flats and seas. These rocks are about 500 million years younger than the rocks in the right hand wall of the canyon.
I'm going to briefly summarize the next 700 million years. The western coast of the U.S. and the Death Valley area transitioned from passive deposition to active as the various Pacific plates began to spread. Compressive forces slowly began to squeeze the rocks in Death Valley and then volcanism began as the oceanic plates were stuffed under the western edge of the North American crustal plate. Some of the molten rocks erupted and some rose up into the Death Valley area but never made it to the surface.
Then about 75 million years ago something very special happened that changed this scenario. Many geologists think the Pacific plate that was being stuffed (subducted) under the North American plate somehow broke and instead of being pushed down toward the mantle, slid horizontally under the crust of the North American plate. This caused a ripple of compressive events to travel eastward across this region and then across the western U.S. all the way to the Rockies which mark the eastward boundary of the horizontal plate.
The compression that accompanied the shallow Pacific plate as it buoyantly rode under this area, folded and contorted many of the older passive margin rocks.
The deeper plate then foundered as the spreading center or mid oceanic ridge which was driving the eastward movement stopped probably because the spreading center finally began to be subducted under the North American plate.
In Death Valley, the compression stopped and a new round of volcanism began as the lower plate started to slowly sink into the mantle and melt. This sinking also began pull apart the western U.S. as the bulging area over the plate now began to sink also. We call this pulling apart extension and when the crust is extended like this faults begin to form that leave some blocks high but drop other blocks down along the fault to allow for the stretching. This faulting and movement started slowly and further east of this region - near the middle of the horizontally under-stuffed plate fragment. The high blocks and low basins caused by this stretching are called the Basin and Range province and cover the area from the high Sierras to the Big Bend in Texas.
The basin seen in the distance in this photograph is the deepest basin in this entire province and therefore, one of the youngest. The spreading started in earnest less than 4 million years ago. Spreading here allows the basins to fall faster than erosion of the surrounding blocks can fill them up. It is no accident that the highest relief in the United States is located here - Telescope Peak in the Panamint mountains on the western side of the basin is over 11,000 above sea level while Badwater Springs is almost 300 feet below sea level.
Now, back to this side canyon, the rocks on the left wall are young - deposited when the basin began to form around 4 million years ago. I am not sure of the formations that are exposed on the left but they look like the Furnace creek formation or the Artists Drive formation.
Those of you that have looked at the left hand wall enough probably have noticed the line that tilts upward at about a 30 to 40 degree angle in the middle of the wall. The line may represent a dis-conformity and may have initially been flat but tilted upward as the young sediments have slid westward and rotated over the crest of the turtleback.
What is a turtleback? A geologist named Curry first described them in 1938. He noticed three rounded (double plunging) rock outcrops on the western edge of the Black Mountains. He also described the contacts of the rocks within these rounded bulges and the overlying rocks at its edges and guessed that they very different in composition and age.
Some researchers believe that these rocks were first bulged upward during the compressional phase that I mentioned above. During the recent extension, these bulges were tilted down to east and exposed as Badwater basin sank past them. The overlying young basin fill exposed in the left wall "spilled" off of the turtle backs in fault blocks that all sole out along the back of the turtleback leaving the domed surface exposed and resembling a turtleback.
To those of you who read all the way to this point - congratulations - you far surpassed the eye glazing point!
I find this landscape beautiful and speculating on the long history that it represents, makes it that much more special to me.
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18-11-2010 Yesterday I was asked on formspring "Do you feel like you're special ?"
Should I confess this made me smile ? This is a question with a lot of innuendoes.
It may be just mere curiosity, but considering the numerous mean questions and comments I get on formspring about my vanity and "who do you think you are", I took it as quite passive-aggressive. More like "Do you really think you're special ?"
And then I gave her the answer they were waiting for, to comfort them in their opinion of my inconcealed vanity :
"No I don't 'feel like' I'm special.
I am".
You know what ? Yes, I do. I've always felt special, but unfortunately, not at all in the good way. Not in the way you probably think. I felt special, in a bad way, cause I've always been an outsider, in every places I've been, lived, worked. Well, "different", more than special. I never ticked the right boxes. I never had the same opinions, the same tastes, the same way of thinking and doing. But then, you grew up like that, you get used to, you live with, and you live pretty well ! You stop worrying and trying to look like the other and instead, you just make it your best asset.
And then you start to look so vain, to sound so pretentious, because you're proud of yourself, proud of what you think or do, and you dare to not hide it, even if it's not the way others do.
So, yes, I do love me. And then ? Is this a crime ? Why does it seem to annoy so many people ? Does it lessen you in any way ? Does a shining happiness or personality really shadow all the rest ? I don't think so. It is so much more comfortable to be proud of yourself and of your achievements than having a complex. I prefer to show I succeed than spreading jealousy in the face of the other people more talented and more successful. I prefer to be vain rather than bother anyone with my insecurity, or complaining about what I'm not or what I'm unable to do. I want to show happiness and motivation, not frustration and failures. I also take pleasure in seeing other ones' happiness and achievements. I want and hope to see that from anyone : pride, self-esteem, joy. Be and tell what you have to be and tell, and be proud of !
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Two black towers with 20 storeys over ground plus some lower white buildings. 267 apartments for rent plus shops on the ground floor and parking under ground. Built: 2009-2011. Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor.
www.wingardhs.se (website only in English)
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvarteret_Brovakten (website in Swedish)
Energy efficient buildings with super insulation, primarily heated by radiated solar energy, heat produced by humans, household machinery, domestic electronic equipment and light fittings. The remaining heat demand is covered by a heat pump that is powered by electricity from a small wind turbine.
Assetto Corsa
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Based on "Acrylic Dreams" by PulseZET