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August 17th, 2008

Lagoon

We went to Lagoon (an amusement park) on Thursday. Here’s my favorite picture from the day: Other photos from the day (and from at least one other trip) are in my Lagoon photoset on Flickr.

August 11th, 2008

Visiting my parents

On Saturday I got to spend three hours at my parents’ house, visiting them with my son. Their 44th wedding anniversary was Friday. At one point during our visit, we were outside and it started raining, so we stood on the covered porch. I took pictures. Here’s one of my son: Here’s another. A water […]

August 7th, 2008

You can’t verb Live Search.

A while ago I used the quote, “you can’t grep dead trees” (meaning you can’t use a computer to search a paper book). Since I enjoy trying to use plain English rather than jargon, it occurred to me that there’s a pleasingly similar but more modern and mainstream way to express the idea: You can’t […]

July 8th, 2008

KWIK Vending Service

A few months ago I mentioned that the office where I work was having trouble with KWIK Vending Service. A couple months ago they said they were going to drop us as a customer. Apparently they were sick of people from our office calling the “call for service” number KWIK had posted on the machines, […]

June 20th, 2008

Bird Day

On today’s walk, I got a couple pictures of birds. This rooster was in a coop. I think it was trying to stare me down. My wife says this is a baby robin. It didn’t seem scared of me. I was just walking casually along, and noticed that it had allowed me to get just […]

June 14th, 2008

More walk photos

Friday I took a walk with my camera again, and took some pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.

June 13th, 2008

Yesterday’s Walk

Yesterday at lunch I took a walk. It resulted in photos somehow. This is my favorite, which I’m currently using as a wallpaper.

May 25th, 2008

Front yard photos

I took some photos in the front yard Saturday. I’m biased, but I think they’re worth clicking through to view at higher resolution.