Thank you.... the life of a freelancer, I've dropped off the face of the planet. It's either feast or famine. I'm feasting, but I'm missing people!! Love your pics, don't often say it enough.
- A. Charlotte Riley
My cousin's thoughts on gardening. "For someone like me, who, as a child, worried that the cut out bits of a paper snowflake would suffer from rejection, weeding has always been a problem."
- A. Charlotte Riley
Highly contaminated water is escaping a damaged reactor at the crippled nuclear power plant in Japan and could soon leak into the ocean, the country’s nuclear regulator warned on Monday. The discovery poses a further setback to efforts to contain the nuclear crisis as workers find themselves in increasingly hazardous conditions. In another new... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
Interesting deconstruction of information. I worry about the curation and preservation of digital information on our fragile Web. Photos are the obvious example. I have a suitcase of photos from my great-grandparents, grandparents and parents; fleeting moments, affixed in a frame. I pore over them, tracing familiar, familial features back a decade or more. But I doubt my digital snaps...
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- A. Charlotte Riley
twitter seems broke, the rest can be finicky; have you tried manually refreshing feeds in the add/edit services area? (click each, popup has refresh)
- Michael W. May
Um... not yet. Perhaps, I have ceased to exist.. at least on social media! :-( (ya, it's Twitter that is the flake. Flickr is updating, as well as the rest...)
- A. Charlotte Riley
*nod* hoping they get twitter fixed because I hate using the actual client/site ;)
- Michael W. May
In the late 1970’s architects in Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands, were given free reign to build 50 futuristic houses known as bolwoningen - roundhouses -, with a view to building more if the idea took off. Fortunately for the small European nation, these ugly little monsters, that resemble a ball cock from inside a toilet cistern, failed to get... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
OMG! I lived in Den Bosch for a little while. Never saw these places. It looked more like this: http://bit.ly/fRE6T2 Very cool town... a student town, so filled with music, theatre, fun, etc.
- A. Charlotte Riley
So the ball houses were out of character with the rest of the town?
- John (bird whisperer)
Yup! :-) (At least where I was, it was all 17th, 18th, 19th C. style, little canals running through the town, cobblestone, and friendly folks wishing you a good day. The sort of place you can't wait to get back to.)
- A. Charlotte Riley
He fell off the tree and just rolled around on the ground for awhile before a passerby gave him an arm up and he headed off to the skating rink. Very surreal moment. :-)
- A. Charlotte Riley
Brilliant => "And the largest part of practice isn't simply doing something, but it's reflecting on why you're doing something and how you can do it better that will lead to the true breakthroughs."
- A. Charlotte Riley