September 6th, 2010 by Max
I just saw a commercial for the new Hawaii Five-0. The background music was filled with brass and drums instead of that reedy thin electronic synthesized guitar that they demonstrated on Youtube.
Yay!
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August 26th, 2010 by Max
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
Foxconn recent doubled its wages to $293/month. Most of America’s technology is now manufactured in a walled town of 350,000 to 400,000 people, euphemistically characterized as Foxconn City.
Steve Jobs gets his toys from here. America gets their toys from here.
This place needs unions.
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August 13th, 2010 by Max
This is just too funny. From Twitter:
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August 9th, 2010 by Max
I went to Massachusetts to hang with some friends. As these action photographs demonstrate, fun was had. There were good friends, games and at least a portion or two of legal substances were consumed. Fish were caught. Speidies were grilled. Birthdays were celebrated.
We’d planned on working on the podcast a little. We’ve a new idea for Countless Screaming Argonauts www.csapodcast.blogspot.com but somehow the flow seemed like the only way to go.
I had to leave before I had to leave. Can’t really say why.
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July 19th, 2010 by Max
Tourists and artists hang out in Windham deep in the heart of Delaware County, NY. Not exactly a sleepy little town Windham is a smaller eastern version of what I imagine Aspen to be. A destination for skiers and in the summer a destination for vacationers with a standing thriving artists community.
Stamford. A little less rural, but still rural, no regional ski center right up the hill, but a vacationers paradise anyway and another home for rural artists.
The Catskills, like the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, also are among the green and blue beautiful upstate vacation destinations that so many people can’t imagine are part of New York. Shhh! Don’t tell anyone.
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July 15th, 2010 by Max
The Guinea Hens live just down the road … and seemingly IN the road. Sometimes at their own peril according to the woman who owns them where they lived on the other of the street.
The Blue Jay was in my back yard eating my blueberries. Do you suppose there is some connection?
I’m pretty happy with the stop action shots.
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July 10th, 2010 by Max
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July 9th, 2010 by Max
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July 8th, 2010 by Max
The next week or so will be my NY houses and such from a couple trips around upstate I recently took.
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July 7th, 2010 by Max
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July 4th, 2010 by Max
Our next little tour through the countryside involves a pair of road trips. Mostly this will be more of my NY houses, but who can resist a train. I took this one from three angles, because I couldn’t figure out the best approach to take. When I got the images home I realized they kind of work as a set. And no, I wasn’t hit by the train. In fact, it wasn’t moving.
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July 1st, 2010 by Max
This time of year the colors begin to appear. I didn’t take any of my typical pictures of the purple flowers. I saw a show that said that some of them are interlopers and are crowding out the more desirable species.
Yes it sounds a little presumptuous to say which ones are desireable, but the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge makes just these decisions. They even drain the land, pull some plants and plant others which are preferred by ducks and other water birds. And, they push the very land around.
I think they know what they’re doing. But I too get frustrated with the meddling. On the other hand, the place is always different. If its not the people, its the time of year. I ALWAYS see something interesting up at Montezuma
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June 29th, 2010 by Max
So much to look at. Here’s a natural. You tell me which is the best …
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June 22nd, 2010 by Max
I don’t know anything about snails. But this guy was up on a wooden deck in the rail, seemingly loving it. I tried to move him to a better background spot – there was some bird poop nearby [which I later scraped away] but he was well stuck to the board.
So here he is. Stuck Chuck, the snail.
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June 20th, 2010 by Max
Last week I went to the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge really early in the morning to get the good morning light. And not only was it overcast it was actually foggy. So yesterday … hot and sunny, I go back and 30 miles out it starts to get dark, and really humid. Just as I get out of the village of Union Springs … sprinkles. Outside of Cayuga … heavy rain.
It rained so hard they turned off the camera on the North Spring Pool Osprey nest. Eventually it cleared up a bit, but most of the animals were tucked away somewhere.
At Mays Point Pool I found this grey thing that I couldn’t tell what it was … so I took its picture. Something was making an awful desperate caw. I couldn’t see where it was but the sound was like something was being tortured. Then further out, I saw this beastie land in an awkward way.
I’ve looked it up and found they’re both “Common Moorhens”. If I had a life list, I’d have added to it today.
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June 15th, 2010 by Max
I’m totally exhausted. Who’d have thought fishing could be so tiring. Maybe it had something to do with the sun on June 15!
What’s that you say? You haven’t seen the sun in days? Yeah, me neither, till today.
Now its time for the classic summer choice … beer … or ice cream?
I had the camera set on overstop for flying bird shots. Put the settings on Portrait, apperture and finally shutter priority. I think it was the apperture priority shots that came out the best and are the ones here. I need to find a way for my iPhoto to tell me what the settings were for each shot. Anyone know?
Oh yeah I’m pretty sure that is a ruffed grouse in the other pictures. She was just sitting by the road, checkin’ me out.
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June 15th, 2010 by Max
Silently, as ever, this Great Blue Heron swept across my view. My Canon Digital Rebel XT was set at ISO 400 and overstopped at f5.6 and 250ss about 2/3 of a full stop.
The Red Wing Blackbird was just not happy to see me.
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June 14th, 2010 by Max
Today we have a different kind of bird. Today’s bird is a Thunderbird! I’m guessing about 1963 and would love to find out for sure.
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June 7th, 2010 by Max
So Bruce says come up to my cousin’s lake outside of Smithville Flats. We’ll have some brewskies and fish. Sounds like fun so I say “yeah”.
And I’m thinkin’ “I wonder if its the same small private lake that that woman from work had a trailer on, and we all went to that party oh about 25 years ago. Lots of ponds in that area. What are the odds?
Sure enough, Katie Benton who was going out with Ralph the bartender at “The Pub” is Bruce’s cousin. We Katie would always go see Ralph after our 2nd shift shift and most of the people who worked at Universal Instruments would go along for beer.
So I see Katie, who always had a laugh. Looks exactly the same as she did 25 years ago and Bruce who I worked with for 10 years and shared a cube with for 3, in the same place at the same time.
Time tripping.
Looking at Katie was like being back in 1985. Then I turned my head and there was Bruce and today. It was just weird.
Here's me from Friday. Last time I was there I think I didn't catch any fish. But I could be wrong since it was a HUNDRED YEARS AGO! Just wierd.
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June 1st, 2010 by Max
This little guy was just ponding around down at the overflow pool in Deposit. A voracious eater, he had three whole sunfish while I watched.
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Countless Screaming Argonauts