NASA radar experiments

NASA radar experiments, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Eggheads from Pasadena’s NASA jet propulsion laboratory setting up their radar rig on the Sundial Bridge. They were experimenting with reading the distance from the river to the radar gun. Supposedly it is helping better understand how to go about collecting information on other planets like what happened [...]

Chris Lee — In Yellow Moonlight

From Chris Lee Plays & Sings Torch’d Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches
I am a songbird at war
Slinging my bodies like a whore
A yellow woman, a frozen star, that’s all
Lost in the forest of a song
Maybe I need more
Maybe for sure
I am a-feeling home (southern) grown
Longing the humid sound of home
In yellow [...]

Somebody deserves a wedgie

Somebody put their underwear in the recycle bin, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Somebody did it. Sombody put their underwear in the recycle bin. Barbarians.

Kyoto and earthworms

Two posts from southern Oregon’s Rogue Pundit:
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Few of the nations which signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol are going to meet their emission goals. That’s long been obvious, but news services rarely point it out. Relaying what politicians and activists want us to hear is easier than adding some quality analysis and [...]

Dennis and David Kamakahi — Ulili E

“This traditional Hawaiian standard describes a tattler bird running along the shore of a calm, deserted beach.”
From Masters of Slack Key Guitar volume 2

Sacramento River Trail / Leisha Graves

Sacramento River Trail / Leisha Graves, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Here’s a nice bench spot under an oak along the Sacramento River Trail to sit and watch the river. Japanese maple to the left.
Leisha Graves was a young lady who had cystic fibrosis when I was in high-school. She always seemed to have [...]

Something went wrong with the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam

Sorta funny. I was crying for a bit.

Bombay

IMG_5361, originally uploaded by Vinu.

Flickr user “Vinu” has been uploading pictures of the terrorist strike in Bombay.

Turtle Bay’s Spike the porcupine

Spike the porcupine, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

When I was a kid, we had a dog named Waldo. He was sort of a sheepdog/poodle mix. I don’t really know for sure where his ancestors came from, but he was a mutt. Hair grew over his eyes if you let it. We went to the [...]

Lint scum!

San Francisco Giants hurler Tim “Lint Scum” Lincecum has won the 2008 NL Cy Young Award. He’s also known as “the freak”. An article from Sports Illustrated explains :
As if peering around a corner, the Freak tilts his head slightly to the left as he begins his explosive, homemade pitching delivery. What lurks [...]