Monthly Archives: January 2009

Inauguration Speech

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Kelson

No sound here, so I’m reading a transcript of Obama’s speech. Based on its length, I’m guessing he’s still giving it. #

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Tax Dancer

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Kelson

Amusing: Someone hit this post after searching for “dancing tax preparer.” Is it really that common? #

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Stock Photos Never Die

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Kelson

Ha! One of the pics from the “Unsolicited Commercial Love Story” is being used in the QOOP ad on the Flickr homepage!

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Login Form Fail, Pinhole Bridge

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Kelson
  • Pet peeve: Login forms that move the cursor to the username field AFTER the page finishes loading. Sometimes I’m already typing by then. #
  • Weird: I feel tired, but I’m acting like I’m still on caffeine. #
  • Cool: A 6-month-exposure photo showing sun trails above a bridge, made using a pinhole camera made from a soda can #

First item cross-posted at LiveJournal.

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Crash Cause

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Kelson

Aha! Crashes on Windows box are due to bad memory! #

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Catalina Island Inversion

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Kelson

Catalina Inversion, originally uploaded by Kelson.

The south end of Santa Catalina Island as viewed from Newport Beach this morning around 9am. The winds have cleared out a lot of the haze that would normally obscure the island, and I had a great view of its entire length.

Interestingly, while the sky seemed clearer at 8am than at 9am, by which time a thin layer of gray haze clung to the horizon, the photos taken at 9 are sharper. It’s almost as if the dust settled during that hour, clearing above the layer and obscuring below it.

There was also a definite mirage caused by that same layer. You can tell the lower 1/3 of the island is distorted.

Catalina Panorama 9am

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Lenticular Cloud

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Kelson


Lenticular Cloud 3, originally uploaded by Kelson.

Spotted this and another cloud on Saturday, looking north. Possibly over the San Gabriels?

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Moody Weather

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Kelson

Morning: t-shirt, sweater, heavy jacket. Lunchtime: just the t-shirt. Slight difference in temp… #

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Weirdness

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Kelson
  1. It’s still foggy.
  2. My Windows box is crashing again.
  3. Twhirl is staying faded, as if in the background, but I can still type.
  4. Only one Microsoft update this month! Of course it’s critical, remote code exec, in all current versions of Windows, AND requires a restart…

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Geekery: WiFi and Presidential HTML

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Kelson

Hmm. I’ve used internet cafes while travelling, but have no idea wher to find one w/in 20mi of home. WiFi hotspots, OTOH, are everywhere. #

Political geekery; saw a bumper sticker reading </bush>. Only prob: tag should be <president name="bush">. Did I mention geekery? #

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