Flyover Country

I walked part of the way into work this morning, and was surprised to find a group of goats “mowing” the grass alongside I5 next to downtown Seattle near Boren and Pine. Who organizes this?

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Update: claimed by Boris.
Shot at Discovery Park today. Did about 650 pictures, ended up really liking about 80 of them. Still, I whittled those down to 15. Posted them up on Flickr just a little while ago, added them to my SmugMug gallery, slapped them up on Facebook, and submitted to Photoshelter. Jiminy Cricket!
Anyway, I [...]

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Rosie, one of my favorite photographers on Flickr, has a handy-dandy post up on her technique for achieving a ‘vintage’ look and feel in photographs, which I’ve often wanted to duplicate. I was guessing that she was taking some semi-arbitrary texture and compositing it on top of her photos, but it’s nice to have the [...]

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I find myself agreeing with Maureen Dowd for once. Dear god, what is the world coming to?

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I don’t get Barack Obama. Sure, he was annihilated by Bobby Rush back in 2000 in a primary campaign for a Congressional seat, but ever since he’s seemed like such a star-crossed politician:
2004 Senate race: Jack Ryan, a wealthy Republican who shares the name of Tom Clancy’s heroic CIA agent and later-on US President, is [...]

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Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous—um, fame—isn’t exactly helping John McCain out with the hullabaloo over how many John McCain owns:
In an early morning phone call Friday from his fabulous crib in Las Vegas, Leach told The Times that he isn’t really surprised at McCain’s odd memory lapse given the complex lives [...]

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I just did something exciting that I’m probably not allowed to talk about yet. I’m sure I’ll be able to talk about it in a week or two. But it’s fun, and involves Objective C.

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The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger just launched a new Engrish pictures website called EngrishFunny. They have one picture up of a Japanese coffee vending machine (selling something called Deepresso), which made me feel nostalgic for the vacation I took to Tokyo and Kyoto this sprint. Man, I want to go back there.

more the [...]

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Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch wrote this followup to a recent post on VentureBeat:
VentureBeat’s Eric Eldon reports:Industry sources tell us that although Android will indeed start as a mobile OS, Google intends to expand it to be a sort of universal operating system that will span set-top boxes for televisions, mp3 players and other communication and [...]

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The NYT has a travel article up today about the sights and sounds of Minneapolis and St. Paul. All good advice, with a highlight:
Tell room service to keep it quiet when they deliver coffee. Or if you are feeling ambitious, go to Al’s Breakfast in Dinkytown (413 14th Avenue SE; 612-331-9991), hard by the east [...]

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