Shadows
Reverse sun rays on the eastern horizon at sunset: P.S. The technical term is anticrepuscular rays. Or, in this case, anticrepuscular shadows, I guess.
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Lightning strikes Denver
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Unexpected benefit of working late: I just captured this photo (actually a frame from an iPhone-shot movie) of a lightning strike north of downtown:
In lieu of flowers, vote Republican
Hahahaha: Charlotte McCourt…who died July 8 [at age 84] after a long illness…was a homemaker, proud mother and grand mother and wife of 67 years to Patrick McCourt. And she was at one time a loyal supporter of Harry Reid. Her obituary, printed in Tuesday’s Review-Journal, reads in part, “We believe that Mom would say she was mortified to have… Read more »
Becky’s garden in bloom!
The climbing roses had trouble at first, but they are clearly making a comeback:
Moon shadow, moon shadow
Sunday’s total solar eclipse was, for the most part, not visible from major land areas: you had to go to Easter Island, or offshore of Tahiti, or somewhere else in the South Pacific, to get into the path of totality. But there was one exception: in far southern Argentina, totality occurred just a few minutes before sunset. And that gave… Read more »
USC-to-UConn transfer: “This is a business”
Money quotes from former USC reserve fullback D.J. Shoemate, who just transferred to UConn, on his decision: Why did you transfer from USC and how hard was that decision? I saw a better opportunity for myself to play running back. I’m very confident in my abilities. I just really wanted to follow my dream. It was the hardest decision of… Read more »
NCAA shortens all March Madness pools’ entry period by 2 days
Not officially, of course. As far as the NCAA is concerned, NCAA Tournament pools do not exist. But effectively, they’ve just thrown a huge monkey wrench into the mid-March plans of every pool administrator, myself included: The final four at-large teams and final four automatic qualifiers in the newly minted 68-team NCAA men’s basketball tournament field will meet for the… Read more »
RenFests have layers
We went to the Colorado Renaissance Festival today. ‘Twas fun. Over on Facebook, I expressed something I’ve long thought about RenFests, updating my status to say: “Brendan thinks Renaissance Festivals, like donkeys ogres and onions, have layers. Layer #1: amusements to entertain little children and kids at heart. Layer #2: scantily clad nerds hoping to get laid. Not necessarily in… Read more »
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a cat
…but on iChatr, a.k.a. ChatRoulette for FaceTime on the iPhone 4, it’s kind of obvious. P.S. A bit later, Toby got rickrolled:
Sunbeams over Denver
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