Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 17th, 2007
And Then There Were Four
What a gift! Tonight the San Pedro cactus rewarded us with the launching of one, two, three,four blooms at once. But no, I did not set up the cam and laptop to go timelapse on the quartet, instead just opting for a single shot of the group (click to quadruplify):
The blossom I did capture opening [...]
No Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Hey Ebbets!
I got my latest Ebbets Field Flannels catalog in the mail Wednesday night and yesterday before I got the good news about landing the job I was thumbing through it and I said to myself that if I got the gig I’d reward myself on my first pay day by taking advantage of an available [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Will
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Outta Site
So my webhosting provider encountered some serious technical difficulties that pretty much left wildbell.com offline from around midnight to just a short while ago. Longest outage in the six years I’ve been with Dreamhost.
Fun stuff, but hopefully we’re back up and running steady — and at least there was one occupant in the house who [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in animals, internet by Will
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
I’m Wanted
You remember that Monster.com commercial from a few years ago, the one where people danced in abject euphoria to ELO’s “Do Ya, Do Ya Want My Love?” when they got new jobs?
I always wanted to do that.
You know that gig I interviewed for last week, the one I was really hoping to get? Well [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, jobs by Will
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Second Time’s The Charm
Sorry for the delay but I’m pretty sure it’s worth the wait. Or at least the effort. Turns out when you build a seven-hour timelapse movie with an image taken every five seconds, not only do you get one helluva long movie but it comes out to be about 1.3 gigs in size. So after [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Sunset Junk Shun
If there’s one moment that shows my hip quotient to be less than zero when divided by one while also calling into question my credentials as a native angeleno it occured in the run-up to the long-running Sunset Junction streetfair in 2001 when a fellow coworker at the time — who was so hip her [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in happenings, neighborhood by Will
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Timelapsification
Oh, it’s on!
I got home around 6 p.m. to find one of the San Pedro cactus night-blooming blossoms just itchin’ to open up and I rushrushrushed to get everything set up to capture it in all its glory, which my blogbud Julia asked in the comments of my first attempt if I’d actually taken a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Mid-Day Movie
Recorded yesterday, I apologize that it’s a 16-megabiscuit file but that’s what happens when you add music and slo-mo and stuff.
The Dust Ball Era
Featuring Ranger
Click here for video
Or if the higher rez ain’t worth the increased hez, here’s the YouTube link.
4 Comments » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology by Will
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
An Extra Special Place In Hell
In the obituary section of today’s L.A. Times can be found news of the death of one 86-year-old Heinz Barth. An SS Officer in World War II, Barth was tried and convicted in 39 years after his participation in the “Das Reich” armored division’s massacre of 642 men, women and children in the French village [...]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Foreign The Flora
File this under Never Ceast To Amaze. Last year it was morel mushrooms that sprang up outta nowhere in the backyard. This year in a decidedly barren patch along the northside of the house this pair of two-foot-tall bulb-tipped stalks climb vertical out of the dirt with no complementary greenery and proceed to go [...]
