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Adelita's Way @ Extreme Thing 2013 by Fred Morledge - www.PhotoFM.com
© Fred Morledge 2013
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Enjoy and see you next year!
On the Mt. Audubon trail. There were tons of these scurrying things. My girlfriend and I referred to them alternatively as rock rabbits or rock hamsters. They were very fast and had the head of a rat, mouse, or hamster and the cotton tail of a rabbit. Also, they were camera shy and liked to run around with mouthfuls of green things that they had uprooted.
What are these called?
This is the thing that does all the actual work on your computer. It takes up a ton of power and produces a ton of heat.
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It was like a DNA double helix, but with dragons instead of a sugar-phosphate backbone, hanging from the top of a set of swings near our tipi.
taking to the sofa. I think they had forgotten the stand for the keyboard and this quickly escalated to a decision for 3/5ths of the band to be on stage on the sofa. It looked pretty good that way!
That black leather sofa came out of my Daughter Ellens house! Great to see it getting a new use!
Sunflower Cottage today. Our 4th weekend of music. ...and one more weekend to come next week
the thing is... - Earwax
One more thing about the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. There are trails that run to the tops of other cinder cones in other places protected by the National Park Service, and in at least one case I know, there's a road that wraps around to the top of one, but you can't climb Sunset Crater. The history of the place suggests a few reasons why.
One, the national monument only came into existence in the first place because in 1928, some Hollywood guy making a silent movie of a Zane Grey book wanted to blow it up. Seriously. The movie was called Avalanche, and the director's plan was to set off a bunch of dynamite in the crater to create the namesake disaster. Unsurprisingly, the people who lived around this part of Arizona didn't care for that plan, so they threw a big fit that put a stop to it and eventually convinced Hoover to create the national monument. So the monument has protection from the absurd things people do built very deeply in its DNA.
But even then, the park service allowed a trail running to the top to exist for a while. But then, a lot of people climbed that trails, and all the traffic started wearing into the cinders and damaging the mountain. So the park service closed the trail decades ago.
The put up signs on an overlook just east of the crater pointing out a lot of the damage people have done around here anyway. This looks out toward a small pile of cinder east of the crater. You can see the deep tracks of old paths people have worn into the hillside. Those tracks are permanent now. They'll never heal. If the park service let people climb Sunset Crater, it would be nothing but grooves looking just like that.
Banja is a typical Russian or Finnish thing. It's a small building separate from the house(in the countryside) that is used only for washing at high temperatures. I haven't tried it, people say it's healthy.
I have made some changes in this picture after I first posted it. If you want to compare, please go to: www.flickr.com/photos/13642253@N00/374725180/
I just finished assembling some of the new prototypes, and I've named them! The controllers are video game ladies, and the slave units are the gents.
I know that the telephoto lens collapses distances but they really were that close together. I don't know how they had room to place the paddles between the boats.
I see what went wrong.
I do.
The pin is a bit crooked.
The copper things are not symmetric.
(note to self, never make things that should be symmetric. It's not your league!)
But still I am pleased.
Especially with the backside :-)
Photographed during the 2017 Volksfest in Elder Park, Adelaide, South Australia. A gathering of Volkswagen vehicles from the past.
Christchurch, September 2011
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island at 12:51 pm on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 local time (23:51 21 February UTC), The earthquake was centred 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the town of Lyttelton, and 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand's second-most populous city. It followed nearly six months after the magnitude 7.1 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, which caused significant damage to Christchurch and the central Canterbury region, but no direct fatalities.
The earthquake caused widespread damage across Christchurch, especially in the central city and eastern suburbs, with damage exacerbated by buildings and infrastructure already being weakened by the 4 September 2010 earthquake and its aftershocks. Significant liquefaction affected the eastern suburbs, producing around 400,000 tonnes of silt. The earthquake was reported to be felt across the South Island and the lower and central North Island.
In total, 181 people were killed in the earthquake, making the earthquake the second-deadliest natural disaster recorded in New Zealand (after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake), and fourth-deadliest disaster of any kind recorded in New Zealand, with nationals from more than 20 countries among the victims. Over half of the deaths occurred in the six-storey Canterbury Television (CTV) Building, which collapsed and caught fire in the quake. The government declared a state of national emergency, which stayed in force until 30 April 2011.
It has been estimated that the total cost of rebuilding to insurers to be around NZ$15–16 billion, making it by far New Zealand's costliest natural disaster, and the third-costliest earthquake (nominally) worldwide.
The earthquake would ultimately be one of three major earthquakes in a year-long earthquake swarm affecting the Christchurch area, and was followed by a large aftershock on 13 June 2011, which caused considerable additional damage.
The June 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a shallow magnitude 6.3 ML earthquake that occurred on 13 June 2011 at 14:20 NZST (02:20 UTC). It was centred at a depth of 6.0 km (4 mi), about 13 km (8 mi) from Christchurch, which had previously been devastated by the February 2011 magnitude 6.3 ML aftershock of the major 2010 Canterbury earthquake. The June quake was preceded by a magnitude 5.6 ML tremor that struck the region at a slightly deeper 10 km (6.2 mi). It was separately reported by the USGS as a magnitude 6.0 Mw event, focused at about 9 km (5.6 mi) below the surface.
Subsequent severe shaking in the city registered at VIII on the Mercalli scale, destroying some buildings and causing additional damage to many structures affected by previous earthquakes. The damaged tower of the historic Lyttelton Timeball Station collapsed before dismantling work could be completed. The earthquake also downed phone lines and triggered widespread power outages, leaving around 54,000 households without power. Rebuilding costs were estimated to increase by NZ$6 billion (US$4.83 billion) due to additional damage from the quake.
Immediate reports following the quake indicated that at least 10 people were injured and hospitalised; however, the number rose to a total of 46 injuries the next day. One elderly rest home resident lost consciousness when he fell during the quake and died later that night, although the exact cause of death was unclear.
because it allows me to stay in touch with the world and look up info on all my other favourite things. Knowledge at our fingertips - what could be better? I know I spend more time than I should with my favourite toy, but I'd be lost without it. I had to really think about what was my favourite thing because I have a lot of favourites - this one helps me get better at most of them.
Just exploring my inner psychic cosmic nucleus and the universe as a whole.
Or in layman's terms .... Just using images that never made the cut to explore my fling with textures!
Thanks goes to SkeletalMess for textures.
Cracks & Old Paper