Spam subject: “TPA Report.”
It should be a TPS Report, but the keys are, like, right next to each other. I guess even spammers can get a case of the Mondays.
A‘a or Pahoehoe?
Probably the influence of the Hawai‘i sign across the street, but I could swear the song on the radio was “My Kind of Lava”
Arctic Lairs
Ah, the Onion! Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds of Secret Arctic Lairs. I’m trying to remember whether Dr. Impossible had an arctic base.
Re-creating Ansel Adams’ UCI
Here’s a cool project: In Ansel Adams’ Footsteps, re-creating his photographs of UC Irvine from the 1960s. There are a lot more trees now. (Or, as a friend pointed out, the trees that were there are a lot taller!) It’s a really impressive look at how the campus has changed…plus it’s always fascinating to look at Ansel Adams’ photography. I remember when I was in college, prints of Adams’ photos lined the walls of one of the Student Center hallways.
A couple of years ago I did my own then and now project — well, less a project than a spur-of-the moment 2007 re-creation of a 1997 photo I took of the Student Center as seen from what was then the Humanities Office Building (now Murray Krieger Hall). In this case the trees hadn’t changed much in 10 years, but UCI had flattened the Student Center complex and built an entirely new one.
Venti Schmenti
So what do you think…
Would it be a bad idea to bring this travel mug to Starbucks?
Man-Eating Bird
Fossils linked to Maori legend of man-eating bird
The giant Haast’s Eagle, which died out at least 500 years ago, was originally thought to have been a scavenger, but new analysis of fossils indicates that it was a lion-level predator…making it the probable basis for the Maori Te Hokioi legend.
Smartphone Radiation
Wow! Glad I didn’t move to a MyTouch! The G1 isn’t in the Top 10 Radiation-Emitting smartphones list, but it’s not exactly low either. The MyTouch, on the other hand, is #1.