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Archive for August 21, 2007
BUG!
August 21, 2007 by Hawk.
I was outside (man it’s hot and humid!) earlier hoping to catch a glimpse and a picture of the shuttle coming in for a landing. Too small a vehicle and too much sky for that to happen but it was the first time I’d ever been out of doors for the twin sonic booms the shuttle kicks off. That was wild! Louder than any fireworks show you’ve ever heard. Two neighbors down the street were yelling to each other “Did you hear that? It sounded like a BOMB! There’s a truck down the street! Do you think he’s shooting at people!?” (idiots).
But I digress… While I was out there I happened across this little guy flitting around the Sago Palm in the front yard. Man I do love my Kodak Z-650, it takes kick ass pictures!
Click the above for a larger view, 1024 x 768, 374K.
Enjoy!
Hawk
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Where’s the new?
August 21, 2007 by Hawk.
I think one of the problems that’s plaguing America and for that matter the world is the lack of marvels. The sheer joy of seeing something we’ve never before seen. We’ve become jaded. We get bored with allegedly ‘new’ things faster than they appear because they’re not new. Just the same old crap in a new wrapper.
Think about it… at one point in time:
Electricity wasn’t even a theory.
No one had ever heard a radio broadcast.
The electric light didn’t exist.
Communication across great distances was only done on paper.
We walked wherever we needed to go or if we were lucky we had a horse.
Trains, plane and automobiles didn’t exist.
Flight was something only birds could achieve.
Television didn’t exist.
We heated our homes by burning stuff, we cooled them by opening windows.
We had not left the planet.
Is there nothing new left to discover? Will every invention, toy, device, whatever from here on it just be a modified version of something we already have? I hope not.
Hawk (under the sun, not new)
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