Category Archives: general

Just regular kinds of stuff that happened (that doesn’t fit in other categories).

100,000 Miles

Posted on August 25, 2009 | Leave a comment

It’s the little things in life that make me happy.

Watch 100,000 miles on 12seconds.tv

I’ve been waiting to get to this point for days and days…

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Tagged odometer

Kellogg’s Special K Red Berries Cereal – Friday Question #76

Posted on August 21, 2009 | 2 comments

From the Friday Question #76:

What is your favorite (cold) cereal? You know, the one you could just eat bowls and bowls of?
So this summer, when I was up north at my Aunt and Uncle’s place, I had Kellogg’s Special K Red Berries Cereal one morning. It was delicious and it’s “Special K” so it’s got to be nutritious, right? Well, it turns out it’s pretty negligible on the being more nutritious when compared to something like Frosted Flakes, and it’s way more expensive. (But don’t tell my aunt!)

So my usual favorite is Frosted Flakes, but occasionally I’ll buy some of the Kellogg’s Special K Red Berries as a treat.

FYI, cereal is more of a snack to me, it’s pretty rare that I eat it as breakfast (especially when at home).

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Tagged Cereal, Friday Question, Kelloggs, meme

Evil Traffic Sign

Posted on August 20, 2009 | Leave a comment

The Lens Day Challenge for this week is Traffic.

People in Costa Rica barely look at the stop signs. Do they really think someone is going to read this one? This is a pretty busy sign, no matter where you are. And just in case you aren’t sure: Alto means Stop.

This is on a busy side-street in San Jose, Costa Rica; It’s a block or two east of La Sabana Park. I think it’s this messy intersection off of Calle 40; but if that’s where it is, it’s not even a very good representation of the intersection.

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Tagged Costa Rica, meme, photos, San Jose, Traffic

The Detroit Opera House

Posted on August 10, 2009 | 2 comments

I was at the Detroit Opera House the other night to see Tori Amos in concert (that’s another post) and I really like the building. I’d like to see it in better lighting and take a bunch of pictures with my nice camera to see how good they might really come out.

These were just with my cell hone but I think they came out pretty good.

I really like the above one with the jagged edges since it shows the ceiling so well.

These are actually exactly the same photo but just cropped differently. It’s five or six photos stitched together (but they were stitched together using AutoStitch on my cell phone) to make one big photo.

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Tagged AutoStitch, Detroit, Detroit Opera House, photos, Tori Amos

New banner image from Cardiff Bay at the top of my blog.

Posted on July 24, 2009 | 1 comment

The banner is an edit from a photo I took in Cardiff, Wales. It is of the Wales Millennium Centre (see photo) with (what they simply call) The Water Tower in front of it.

These are located in Roald Dahl Plass (plaza) dedicated to the Cardiff born author Roald Dahl. This Millennium Centre is beautiful at night, I didn’t have my camera when I wandered down there when I was in town, but that photo will be on my list for the next trip. And hopefully there will be water coming out of The Water Tower next time too! The Plass is lit very pretty too!

I’ve been thinking about Cardiff and also thinking about changing my photo so I choose this. I don’t have a lot of really wide photos that crop well so I looked around and found this one. Plus, I’ve got Torchwood on the the brain this week (month).

On the photo (in this post) if you read the right half of the building you can see it says: “In These Stones Horizons Awen (Awe and?) Sing”. The left half says something in Welsh. I was told the building is built from materials made all in Wales.

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Tagged blogging, Cardiff, Cardiff Bay, photos, Torchwood

Other space information in time for today’s anniversary…

Posted on July 20, 2009 | Leave a comment

I mentioned the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing earlier today. Here’s a few other “space” things that caught my eye:

Apollo 11 restored HD video.

Send your name to Mars and get a certificate.

For your iPhone and iPod Touch get SkyVoyager and SkyGazer for free today (normally $17.98 combined).

Photos of the Moon landing sites from the LRO.

And Google has added the Moon to Google Earth (desktop application).

That’s it for now. Please post any recommended links in the comments below.

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

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Tagged Apollo 11, Apple iOS, astronomy, iPod Touch, iTunes, Mars, moon, science, The Moon

Forty Years Ago Today: We landed on The Moon!

Posted on July 20, 2009 | Leave a comment

On this day 40 years ago Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. I’m not sure what else needs to be added to that statement: “We landed on the Moon”! How amazing is that?!?

Just for some frame of reference: The Moon is 238,000 miles away (384,000 km), if you were driving 75 miles per hour it would take you 3,100 hours. Keep in mind that’s speeding and you don’t get to pull over for any bathroom breaks or snacks!

Actually it took them more like five days to get there, so just dividing that out, that’s around 2,000 miles per hour (assume it took them a while to speed up and slow down).

When I was a kid, my mother purchased me a two record set of the mission. Lots of audio recordings of the launch and landing. I’m thinking there was some insert with a bunch of photos too. I played that a lot on my record player. I don’t have any idea what year she purchased that, but I’d say I was six or seven(?), and it was amazing to me!

It’s still amazing to me. Whenever I can watch a launch of some kind or another, I always turn on the TV and still get thrills and chills. I get chills just thinking about it as I’m writing this…