Archive for August, 2004

Death Valley Storm Front

Monday, August 30th, 2004

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death_valley_storm, originally uploaded by conradh.

You can’t see the 40 mph wind or the cold. But it was worth it. What a beautiful place.

hibiscus

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

hibiscus

Originally uploaded by conradh.

On a rare whitefly-free day, the front yard hibiscus flowers seem to float independent of everything else like fat sticky dragonflies.

In Praise of Moving Parts

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

I grew up in the Transistor Age. When I was a child in the 1970s, the great selling point for any electrical device was that it had no moving parts. The salesman would rattle off a series of bullet points and then pause for effect and intone “and this baby has No Moving Parts. Nothing […]

Exhuming Manzanar

Saturday, August 7th, 2004

Metafilter led me to the website of the dreadful Michelle Malkin who argues that the illegal internment of Japanese-American citizens during the Second World War was justified. She does this partly by muddying the waters between Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese descent, and by a general appear to fear and hatred of Arabs […]

Starting up again: blogspam

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

I’m using this thing again and preparing to do some real work with it. Blog spam is out of control, so I required TypeKey registration. If anyone has a better idea, or a reason why TypeKey is horribly evil and must be destroyed, let me know by email or by registering with TypeKey and commenting […]