What? You expected something better? Taste my mediocrity, world!
I was walking through my living room and the old D&D 1st edition books caught my eye. I decided to take a few pictures of the things that I remember so well.
These are iconic in my mind; they represent what the game was to me as a kid.
Belfort had to back out of the match and it looks like Wanderlei Silva will be the replacement fighter. Still a solid match. Can't wait!
A post-it doodle inspired by the day. :)
We drove through a LOT of backroads to find the place where my wife's dad's family reunion is being held. I parked and got out. Then I noticed what I was parked next to. I thought, "Hmm, I hope I don't stand out as much as my car does."
My hopes were dashed. Just saying.
While playing on the shoreline, she found what we believe is a catfish vertebrae (or what she's calling a fossil). She asked for help in bagging her find so she can clean it with tools and bring it to show and tell.
How could I say no?
I was driving through the backroads of Virginia and came across this. There were many much like it, but this one struck me as sort of iconic and austere.
It was neither too shabby nor too modern. There was just something functional and respectable about it. I just needed to take the picture.
The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles and super-bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's vigorous "star factories" are also manufacturing brilliant blue star clusters. This galaxy had a sudden and relatively recent onset of star birth 25 million years ago, which subsided about the time the very earliest human ancestors appeared on Earth.
In this new image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, The bubble structure is sculpted by the galactic super-winds and outflows caused by a colossal input of energy from collective supernova explosions that are linked with a massive episode of star birth. The bubble-like structures seen in this image are made of hydrogen gas that glows when hit by the fierce winds and radiation from hot young stars and is racked by supernovae shocks. The first supernovae blew up when the most massive stars reached the end of their lifetimes roughly 20-25 million years ago.
The environment in NGC 1569 is still turbulent and the supernovae may not only deliver the gaseous raw material needed for the formation of further stars and star clusters, but also actually trigger their birth in the tortured swirls of gas.
Look, I'm not saying I'm buying one---though it's tempting---but I do think that Hampton Roads should seriously invest in modifying its infrastructure to encourage something like this more nimble transportation model. A beach town with pocket sub communities, like Virginia Beach, is a perfect place to introduce this. Special parking, lanes just for scooters and small vehicles, and incentives to change could make a positive difference to the city.
If you don't know what Filemover or Lifeline are, don't be surprised. This is an inside joke.
This, too, has passed. Like all things doomed to die,
Filemover's hundred moving parts in a thousand pieces lie.
Tales be told and songs be sung,
The drum be beat and the bell be rung.
We have crushed Filemover and seen it driven before us,
Let the lamentations of its women be our cheerful chorus!
"It's dead! It's dead!", let them wail; let them moan.
The crops it now reaps are the seeds its incompetence hath sown.
For my part, I lift a cup in celebration of its fate,
And pray that Lifeline, its better son, ne'er warrants this much hate.
