On my recent flight home, from San Francisco to New York, I took some photos every thousand miles or so. See the entire set here. I took these shots on my Treo smartphone, hence the wierd, low-res quality; still, there’s something I like about the resulting images, especially after applying the "I’m Feeling Lucky" re-touch in the Picassa photo-finishing software.… Read the rest
Debora Schultz had to catch this.… Read the rest
(click for hi-res)
"Thank you for flying American Airlines" was the ironic gesture from the stewardess yesterday on American Airlines flight 346, from Chicago’s O’Hare airport to New York’s La Guardia airport.… Read the rest
Seriously. One of my favorite blogs, Petistic, tips us off to scientific research around horse speak:
… Read the restA new database of horse talk and behaviour could help take the mystery out of a horse whisperer’s job, US researchers hope.
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Connecticut are compiling the database in an attempt to correlate nuances in horse whinnies with their differences stress levels.
One of the toilets in our apartment exploded on Sunday morning (the fresh water intake hose cracked), so Laura and I took a trip to Lowes to pick up a replacement. It was a beatiful, crisp day, and the Lowes parking lot, which is on Brooklyn’s Gowanus canal, was glowing.… Read the rest
