Day: August 24, 2012

I found this really cool moon photo at the AstroMeeting.

I love all the detail that he goes into about taking the photo.

A nice post on Amazing Filtered Things shows a whole bunch of photos of nuclear blasts.

My favorite is the one with the observers in the foreground.

Google Maps has a cool shot of an SR-71 Blackbird on the deck of the USS Intrepid at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

After my recent iPad acquisition, I realized that now I need a new bag to carry it in. Normally I use a large Healthy Back Bag, produced and sold by AmeriBag. Unfortunately, the iPad’s shape doesn’t lend itself to being carried in the teardrop-shaped bag.  I have narrowed down my choices, and there are oh so many of them, but now I need some help from you, gentle reader.  Each of the images below are linked to the product information page on the bag.

Tonight’s feature is a video of one of my favorite artists, Diana Krall.  This particular performance is from the live concert at the Paris Olympia Theatre in 2002.

Julie London’s performance of this Arthur Hamilton torch song was my favorite until I heard the sultry tones of Diana Krall performing it.

Quite some time ago I used to do a fairly regular Friday post of music videos.  It’s time to start that over, but this time I going to post one every Monday night.

Tonight’s video is She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes.  The song was released in 1990 on the album Shake Your Money Maker.

Last week my friend Lindsay and I were making the rounds of the various thrift stores and used furniture stores in Valdosta.  It is quite interesting to see what people get rid of and to think of ways to use some of it.

At one of the thrift shops we found three VSU glasses.  One of them is a glass that was given out to the VSU student employees at the Student Awards banquet last year.  Another one was from the Faculty and Staff Campaign from 2002.  There were tons of promo glassware from all kinds of companies, restaurants and schools.  I wonder just how much of that kind of stuff is bought and given out only to end up in some landfill or thrift shop.

Fringe, a new series on the Fox network that is using a new format Fox dubs Remote-Free TV.

The episodes are longer than your average sitcom.  The Wikipedia entry on the show states that this series will have less commercials and promos.

While this is true, one of the interesting bits is that before each commercial they tell you how many seconds should pass before the next segment starts.

Another interesting aspect of the series is how they identify each location during the episode.  Often shows just print plain text on the screen, however in Fringe they use 3D text on the screen and it is oriented differently depending on the scene.