Thirsty, thirsty hippo
April 29, 2005
I never thought a hippo would be bigger than a car, so when I saw it wallowing around in the national zoo I was quite awestruck:
Silverback Moon
April 27, 2005
I went to the National Zoo last Saturday and took a few pictures (of course). Here’s a silverback gorilla sitting around.
Pear blossoms, up close
April 21, 2005
I took this two days ago; The period for pear blossoms has gone but there’s plenty more pictures to remind me of them for the rest of the year.
I Flickr now
April 21, 2005
Thank you Rhe. So much. This thing is addictive. Heck, I post pics there ahead of when I post here. Flickr lesson #1: I find tagging photos a chore; verbalizing what I capture in pixels is a wrenching experience. Anyone else find the act of tagging pics demystifying?
Sometimes I freaking hate pop culture
April 20, 2005
I just discovered that the storyline for something I’ve been writing has already been done in a Star Trek: Original Series episode. I have the tough choice of stopping all work now or making a self parody with a short dialogue between characters, like so: “Hey, isn’t this similar to a Star Trek episode?” the… Continue reading this entry
Peach blossoms
April 20, 2005
Best food blog I’ve ever read
April 19, 2005
If I ever enter politics I’d make sure to have this guy‘s dining expenses (see here, here, here, and here just for starters) written off as tax-exempt. His reviews of the dining scene in the Seat Of The Empire are a service to all who haunt the area, and have saved me plenty of money… Continue reading this entry
Water
April 19, 2005
Taken from one of my regular walks around my area, water going down a rusty drain: And here it is in black and white:
Love the sinner and hate the sin
April 18, 2005
Best ever, non-lofty, nitty-gritty easy-to-understand-in-no-uncertain-terms discussion of the role of the Christian churches and Christians towards homosexuality and homosexuals I have ever seen in months. A snip: While The Bible teaches homosexuality is a sin, this doesn’t mean you should be anti-homosexual. It is not a Christian’s place to judge and condemn. It is a… Continue reading this entry
WTF is this?
April 18, 2005
As seen in my referral stats (replacing [bracketed] items with applicable info): http://images.google.[country TLD]/imgres?imgurl=[the URI of an image on my site] I already banned the Google Imagebot from my robots.txt; what’s this about?