BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Best laid plans and all that… I canceled the New Orleans trip, at least for now. I’ve been watching the weather and when the forecasts all called for temperatures with heat indexes over 100 that was it for me. It’s actually going to be cooler in St. Louis, at least […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily (again), a pointer to a story covering the press reaction to the release of thousands of pages of Einstein’s personal correspondence. Tongue in cheek, the article is titled, Einstein in Lust. In it the author, Joshua Roebke, writes: “Phys-sex Genius” wrote the headline wizards at the New York […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. WordPress.com has released a new paid upgrade: custom CSS. Now those who host their weblogs with the service can pay for an upgrade and customize their weblogs. To start, the company provided a Sandbox theme layout that can be altered through the custom stylesheet. It’s interesting to read about this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Birdchick writes on her husband’s participation in this year’s Fringe Festival in Minnesota. The concept of the Fringe Festival is fascinating, and I wish we had something similar here in St. Louis. I gather that every year, people submit ideas, and a lottery determines which are included in the Festival. That’s it: no juries […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As part of my camera updating, I purchased a couple of new lenses. The first is the Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 super wide-angle lens. I’ve been wanting to experiment with a wide angle lens, but didn’t want to spend the thousand or so dollars on Nikon’s comparable lens. The Tokina is […]