July 2011
1 post
“He is not the librarian, FAIL!!!”
– Yesterday at the library, I spotted two kids eating. I went around the corner, and this is what the girl said to her friend…
May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
6 posts
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
March 2011
24 posts
Understanding Japan's nuclear crisis
Following the events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan has been challenging. At best, even those present at the site have a limited view of what’s going on inside the reactors themselves, and the situation has changed rapidly over the last several days. Meanwhile, the terminology involved is somewhat confusing—some fuel rods have almost certainly melted, but we have...
“In 1970, in New York City, a newly minted teacher at a public school earned...”
– nytimes.com
WatchA portrait of Los Angeles very different from the one of the TV and the movies, but probably more realistic.
latimes:
Scenes of downtown Los Angeles, steeped in the red and brown tones of aging color film give this clip the nostalgic, slightly voyeuristic feel of watching an old 1950’s home video. But it was filmed on a Sony Cybershot. Some scenes are timeless.
Giving Life After Death Row
EIGHT years ago I was sentenced to death for the murders of my wife and three children. I am guilty. I once thought that I could fool others into believing this was not true. Failing that, I tried to convince myself that it didn’t matter. But gradually, the enormity of what I did seeped in; that was followed by remorse and then a wish to make amends.
I spend 22 hours a day locked in a 6 foot by...
I love this song
The Sound by Switchfoot
Black and White
I always though that photographers were less of an artist than painters. They just walk around with their camera and press a button every once in a while and their job is done.
Then I realized that painters can bend the reality with their brush as much as writers with their pens. They have the freedom to construct their own reality and are not subject to what their eyes see.
A photographer is...
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
September 2010
5 posts
Austin Seraphin got an iPhone. Since he is blind, the first thing he did was activate VoiceOver, which reads text out loud. Then later, he tried the Color ID app, which identifies colors picked up by the camera. I have never experienced this before in my life. I can see some light and color, but just in blurs, and objects don’t really have a color, just light sources. When I first tried it at...
August 2010
1 post
May 2010
10 posts
