Here are thumbnails of three select images from the DC portion of our trip. All three were taken with my iPhone. I have tons more pictures taken with my new Canon. Picture on the left is of me standing in front of the Stephen Colbert portrait at the American History Museum. The middle picture is the original model of the Enterprise from Star Trek, located in the basement toy store at the National Air & Space Museum. The last picture is of a train pulling into a DC Metro station. (Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.)
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RT @ryking: "Cheney Threatens to Further Isolate Republican Party:" http://is.gd/Og28 // Oh, please, please, please, please, PUH-LEAZE!!!!Everyone needs a coffee table book (1/2 the size of an actual coffee table) on tractors http://twitpic.com/6lz71Oh noze! Now teh gay penguins are hurting traditional marriage http://bit.ly/12G5Se Damn you, Iowa! Damn you to Nebraska!
RT @markosm: Hannity loses head, claims Obama has declared America a "Muslim nation". http://bit.ly/dK4Ud // #assclownalert
RT @dmf71: The Common Link Between Writers & Mental Illness http://tinyurl.com/pfjf8q #writing
Commuter dogs in Russia http://bit.ly/137kVi
Teh stoopid. It burns! Glenn "Assclown" Beck & Jonah "Cheeto dust inhaler" Golberg verbally ejaculate http://bit.ly/IY5hW #tcot #p2
I wish they made giant gerbil wheels to burn off excess energy for small dogs and children.
Twitter as a venue for male bonding? http://bit.ly/27XPn
WWJS - Who would Jesus shoot? Would Jesus have walked up to Dr. Tiller in church and gunned him down?
Yes. No. No. No. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Maybe. Maybe. Sure, why not. http://bit.ly/K69df
- Location:Tucson
- Mood:bouncy
- Music:The Decemberists' "The Mariner's Revenge Song"
Saturday Mel and I toured Gettysburg. We hired a Licensed Battlefield Guide. He rode around with us in our car and we got our own personal tour of the battlefield. He was very knowledgeable. Pix coming soon. Maybe.
If I feel motivated enough, I'll do a Balticon, DC, Gettysburg and wedding report when I get home.
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Went to Balticon this past weekend. Had a great time. Saw Charles Stross, Evo Terra, George Hrab, Phil Plait, John Hemry, and many others. I might up a more thorough report but don't hold your breath.
Currently in Washingon, DC. This is my first time. Tuesday took the bus tour to get the lay of the land. It was raining so didn't do to much walking though we did brave the rain to see Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. We walked as far as JFK's gravesite. We also saw RFK's grave nearby. We later went to the Museum of the American Indian. It wasn't just about natives of the US but all of North, Central, and South America.
Today we went to the National Air and Space Museum. I don't think I saw a more concentrated collection of important historical objects in one place: Kitty Hawk, Spirit of St. Louis, Spaceship One, Apollo 11 command module, Yaeger's X-1, Amelia Earhart's Trans-Atlantic plane, plus lots of other cool things. And as an added bonus, I saw the Enterprise model used in the original Star Trek series.
Later I went to the Natural History Museum and saw the Hope Diamond. It was much smaller than I was led to believe. Yeah, as diamonds go it was big but somehow was hoping it was larger.
That's it for now.
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The weather around here is now in the high nineties. Humidity is low, so as long as you stay in the shade or drink plenty of water it's not unbearable. On Sunday it looked like storm clouds were brewing and after asking on Twitter if that was unusual for this time of year, the answer was yes. It didn't rain, but these ominous clouds sure looked ominous:
Went to the Desert Museum again. Had to exchange a book. I took a few pictures including this screech owl.
.That's it for now.
- Mood:dry
Photos.
Here are two more pictures from my visit to The Desert Museum.
- Location:Tucson
- Mood:OK
You don't really get a sense of scale from this image. This lizard was at least a foot long maybe 14 inches. They can grow as long as two feet.
They are venomous but slow. So long as you give them a wide berth they won't bother you. It didn't care too much for me taking his photo. I got as close as four foot away. It stopped, turned it's head towards me and opened it's mouth at me when I got too close.
Even though they are venomous, it's not fatal but very painful from what I've read. They don't leap seven feet in the air, they don't drop out of trees (or giant saguaro) onto your head, nor do they don't spit venom. But if anyone asks you can add "as far as I know".
And one more wildlife note. I saw my first bats last night. They were flying under the back porch overhang. I saw three or four swoop in like they were strafing the table. I still have not seen any rattlesnakes or coyotes or javalinas yet. Not in any hurry to see those.
- Location:crossing the road
Gauguin' cut off Van Gogh's ear? http://tinyurl.com/dyqepx
I'm being followed by @EthelTheFrog. We'll see how long that lasts since frogs are going extinct.
Joe the Plumber: Republican's expired jar of Baconnaise or freezer burned Jimmy Dean's Chocolate Chip Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick? Bush-Cheney Regime epitaph: Never has so much been taken from so many by so few #p2 #tcot #jebus Special thanks to Phil Gramm
From the time I received the email that @ezMoneyMaker was following me on Twitter until the time I blocked it was 12 seconds. A record. @cashewredneck you know how you can tell which Okla senator, Inhofe or Coburn, is more embarrassing? The one that's talking. #p2 #tcot
RT: @MistaBell: Want To Avoid Swine Flu? There’s An App For That Too: http://bit.ly/udL3u It's #StarWarsDay. These aren't the tweets you are looking for. Move along.
Just read in the paper this morning that the first cases of The Formerly Known As Swine Flu have been recorded on Tucson, AZ. They'll announce actual numbers at a press conference later today.
I'm not too concerned.
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UpdateHave people gotten dumber? You cannot get swine flu from eating pork. I knew this way back in 1976 when I was in the 6th grade. Flus are named based on their origins either location or animal. Since it's really a hybrid flu, perhaps they should have called in Mexico City Flu.
I see two upsides for me from this outbreak. I'll be able to get better travel deals and discounts on bacon.I'll give you a hint. The very last noise it makes will help you narrow it down. It's in MP3 format. Right click to download and save as or click and it should play in the browser or pop-up in an audio player. Enjoy the animal sound.
I heard it this afternoon about 4 pm. I knew it was coming from the center median. There's lots of cacti, brush and trees in the median. Anyway, I couldn't see it. I started recording and walked towards the sound. Eventually I spotted it but then the creature had moved on.
- Location:Foothills
- Mood:intruiged
Republicans Gutted Pandemic Preparedness Spending From Stimulus Bill
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=204
Swine Flu outbreak
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCr
Republicans Decry Volcano Monitoring
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/40421
Volcano in Alaska erupts
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/apr/25/e
Republican Pundits upset DHS report targets right wing extremists
http://crooksandliars.com/david-nei
Right wing extremist kills two deputies in Florida
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/cartwr
Right wing extremist kills three cops in Pittsburg
http://crooksandliars.com/david-nei
Oklahoma Man Arrested for Twittering Tea Party Death Threats
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/0
Those whacky teabaggers. Won't they ever learn? (dialog NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGNWCwCr
The GOP: divorced from reality
The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinio
Look, I get it, "real America." After an eight-year run of controlling the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, this latest election has you feeling like a rejected husband. You've come home to find your things out on the front lawn -- or at least more things than you usually keep out on the front lawn. You're not ready to let go, but the country you love is moving on. And now you want to call it a whore and key its car.
That's what you are, the bitter divorced guy whose country has left him -- obsessing over it, haranguing it, blubbering one minute about how much you love it and vowing the next that if you cannot have it, nobody will.
But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy.
- Mood:pissed
This is the first snake we've seen since moving to Tucson. I'm not going to worry about snakes in the driveway or in the front of the house. I'll just avoid them and they'll go away eventually. Though I suppose if I'm expecting visitors I'll have to warn them. If one gets into the backyard, garage, or--shudder--house then I'll have to do something. Anyway Melissa did not freak out. I guess it helped there was a screen door and 20 feet separating her from it.
I also took a short video of it so you can see its tail better.
So far I've seen rabbits, jackrabbits, quail, lots of other desert birds, chipmunks, ground squirrels, and a bobcat in our neighborhood. I've heard but not seen coyotes. I think my foothills experience will be complete when I see javalinas.
- Location:Driveway
- Mood:interested
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