I’ve long had a soft spot for trains. These images come from the UPRR Facebook site. I voted to get them to come through Topeka/ KC with this classic steam engine (the 844). I didn’t have a chance to see…
France ’96;
Came across some long lost photos doing some spring cleaning. Thought I’d lost them. Can’t believe it was around 15 years ago. I remember wine in France was cheaper than bottled water – though that may have been a thin…
day trip
A special thanks to the bloggers in Comp 1 who turned me on to Deanna Rose farmstead for children. And thanks to my wife, who takes much better pictures than I. We really like this place – and I can’t…
KC Disc Dog Photo Experiments
So the only camera I had when we stumbled across the Kansas City Disc Dogs demo in Southpark Last week, was the ancient 3 megapixel – which is enough a camera to outpace my talents as a photographer. So this…
Body art
I know stories of people not getting jobs (in banks, as nurses) because of their tattoos. I keep thinking this would make a good paper topic for the SRTOL paper, but I haven’t seen it done well yet. Cracked has…
The problem with a social D
A report currently excerpted on Doonesbury in the “say what” (a kinda WTF quote of the day) states: The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate,…