Yipee!

I have been declared an Official Photographer. I am not at liberty to discuss the details but I can say that there are several engagements with potential tactical errors to avoid. I may need one of these.

Not one of these.

Second link via Adam

This is more dance-able

Holy Land USA

Wow. I am posting several taken today. Without comment. Very sad and interesting. Never expected the terrain to be so hardscrabble.

Update: I wrote "without comment," then commented. Anyone catch that? File under "blog-error."

Gatling Gun

The Gatling gun has a rich history. Plenty if you are interested. Turning bad folks to red mist for years. GE brings good things to life.

God Bless Stephen Anthony DeSantis!!!

And God Bless America!!!







I love this country so much it chokes me up. I was driving through Waterbury today and saw the above.

Zero Sum

Find something, disrupt something.

Sun and flat water

Cove

This was interesting

I believe this was planted. It has ocurred before. Bethel's P.T. Barnum. And, though they were wrong, the English fellow's and the challenging Platypus.

The approach

Bees and Birds

These are not cropped at all, but there are going to be better photos to be found with the crop and zoom functions. It should be fun to play with, those humming freaks are fast. I believe they are involved in a malady called "Framer's..."

Umm

"Framer's" something, can't quite recall.

Pringles

"And people want them in our markets because they get bored of Syrian, Jordanian and Iranian items."--That's about what it would take for me to like Pringles.

via Drudge

Secret Tourism

I may have linked to this before. I ought to pick up the book. Might be interesting to swing through some of the spots on the way to more practical trip destinations. We fish Plum gut off of Plum Island.

And during summers I have always wanted to take the weekend tour of Brookhaven. One of those researchers has had some public donations save the day on an experiment he needs to pursue.

I believe they began the tours as a result of an accident, or accidents and a resulting p.r. necessity.

This is neat.

The first video game was invented there. It should be a mecca for the gaming community and praise be that it is not.

Update: I forgot to add the black hole Brookhaven is working on that would destroy us all.

Hmmmm... Video Games...

End of existence...

I'm cool with that.

In the book "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes there is an anecdote of physicists working out the possibilities and delivery methods of ever increasing magnitudes of weapons on a blackboard. That was a good book. So Teller and friends are chatting over some biggies. At the time bombers weren't necessarily able to carry the load of a hydrogen bomb so delivery was a big part of the initial conceptualization. By the time they had reached consideration of a weapon significant enough to destroy the planet they listed the delivery method as "backyard."

You wouldn't have to take that one anywhere, you could set it off at home.

Read the book a long time ago, it might be worth ferreting out that segment and typing it.