March 2017 archive
I have no idea how long I'll be able to keep climbing.
My shoulders seem less up to the strain with
every year and yet somehow they hold together.
Also of note is how neither I nor my
climbing buddies lose interest in doing it.
I climbed two new routes yesterday. I was trying to find routes I'd climbed a year or so ago but I must have been looking in the wrong place.
To find a new line of bolts, no word on how hard the route is or what someone named it, to just say "that looks fun" and climb it, to be able to say "no animals were harmed" when you're done: that's a good day. I wrote
Every one of those planes is a Boeing 767. 767 is not prime, alas.
Neil Gorsuch,
under consideration to serve on the US Supreme Court, wore the tie shown
to the left during his confirmation hearing today. In streaming
video, moiré patterns as shown to the right wobbled
as he shifted around in his seat.
Wikipedia:
newscasters and other professionals who appear on TV regularly
are instructed to avoid clothing which could cause the effect.
Call me a geek, but I cannot imagine being Gorsuch's age and not knowing what moiré patterns are and how distracting they look on video. There are more important things to consider about Gorsuch, but this is the 21st century and it behooves one not to be clueless about technology.
Not that it would be beyond a Republican to feign cluelessness. To be naïve to the ways of broadcast media is a plus in some quarters.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why Gorsuch wore a moiré‑prone tie (and whether he'll wear another one when hearings continue tomorrow).
My dad,
standing in front of what was one of my favorite trees. 1989 or so.
The tree was moved to this location in 1915 when it was already about 70 years old and weighed 28 tons. It started succumbing to fungus and borers by 1997 and was cut down in 2006.
All the links in my 2003 blog posting about the tree have died, so try this article, this pic with description, or even Wikipedia.
I climbed two new routes yesterday. I was trying to find routes I'd climbed a year or so ago but I must have been looking in the wrong place.
To find a new line of bolts, no word on how hard the route is or what someone named it, to just say "that looks fun" and climb it, to be able to say "no animals were harmed" when you're done: that's a good day. I wrote
Amazon Prime Air is registering freight airplanes with prime numbers. Their first Amazon-branded plane (a Boeing 767) has tail number N1997A. Now that they've gotten a mundane choice out of the way (Amazon went public in 1997), I'll be curious to see what other primes they pick.Well. Planespotters.net lists nineteen planes in Amazon Prime Air's fleet:
N191AZ N307AZ N311AZ N313AZ N331AZ
N337AZ N347AZ N353AZ N359AZ N1049A
N1093A N1217A N1229A N1321A N1327A
N1361A N1373A N1427A N1997A
Every one of those planes is a Boeing 767. 767 is not prime, alas.
Neil Gorsuch,
under consideration to serve on the US Supreme Court, wore the tie shown
to the left during his confirmation hearing today. In streaming
video, moiré patterns as shown to the right wobbled
as he shifted around in his seat.
Wikipedia:
newscasters and other professionals who appear on TV regularly
are instructed to avoid clothing which could cause the effect.
Call me a geek, but I cannot imagine being Gorsuch's age and not knowing what moiré patterns are and how distracting they look on video. There are more important things to consider about Gorsuch, but this is the 21st century and it behooves one not to be clueless about technology.
Not that it would be beyond a Republican to feign cluelessness. To be naïve to the ways of broadcast media is a plus in some quarters.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why Gorsuch wore a moiré‑prone tie (and whether he'll wear another one when hearings continue tomorrow).
One of
several art installations the Palm Springs
area is currently subject to.
Not bad, although where's the sport in having permission to put stuff on a billboard.
From today's
Miami
Herald:
Not bad, although where's the sport in having permission to put stuff on a billboard.
A Miami defense lawyer's pants burst into flames Wednesday afternoon as he began his closing arguments in front of a jury — in an arson case.You can't make this stuff up.
Stephen Gutierrez, who was arguing that his client's car spontaneously combusted and was not intentionally set on fire, had been fiddling in his pocket as he was about to address jurors when smoke began billowing out his right pocket, witnesses told the Miami Herald.
He rushed out of the Miami courtroom, leaving spectators stunned. After jurors were ushered out, Gutierrez returned unharmed, with a singed pocket, and insisted it wasn't a staged defense demonstration gone wrong, observers said.
Instead, Gutierrez blamed a faulty battery in an e-cigarette, witnesses told the Miami Herald.
...
Gutierrez was representing Claudy Charles, 48, who is accused of intentionally setting his car on fire in South Miami-Dade. He had just started his closing arguments when the fire broke out. Jurors convicted Charles anyway of second-degree arson.
jackrabbit,
unfazed by snow flurries this afternoon.
29 second video at https://youtu.be/h5EugAtQibg
29 second video at https://youtu.be/h5EugAtQibg
My dad,
standing in front of what was one of my favorite trees. 1989 or so.
The tree was moved to this location in 1915 when it was already about 70 years old and weighed 28 tons. It started succumbing to fungus and borers by 1997 and was cut down in 2006.
All the links in my 2003 blog posting about the tree have died, so try this article, this pic with description, or even Wikipedia.