Distractions of the day
Posted by miri On 12 June, 2007
Links found during my lunch break…
- Video of Prez Bush’s watch getting stolen – yeah, the page is in Dutch, but you can see hands taking the watch off of Bush’s wrist!
- High speed photographs of milk dropping into coffee – how can something so ordinary look so otherworldly? And you simply must click on the link to the falling water balloon video in the article.
Paws
Posted by miri On 10 June, 2007
Hi from Hye
Posted by miri On 9 June, 2007
According to this site, this post office was built in 1904.
“This building, the Hye General Store and Post Office, which in 1966 was entered in the state archives as a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark, still stands today and continues to serve its original function. Hye gained particular attention in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson used the front porch of the post office as the setting for his appointment of Lawrence F. O’Brien as United States Postmaster General. Johnson, whose boyhood home is nearby, also claimed to have mailed his first letter at the age of four from the Hye post office.”
LBJ Ranch
Posted by miri On 8 June, 2007
Goodness how I love unexpected Friday afternoons off from work. [photo set]
Robitic cow tongues
Posted by miri On 7 June, 2007
Could it get more wrong than this?
Note: while there’s nothing actually pornographic in that link, I wouldn’t suggest clicking on it if you are at work or have someone looking over your shoulder.
Mueller Central
Posted by miri On 6 June, 2007
I’m so sad to see the sweet little slanty building separated from the hangar. It looks lonely out there by itself. I wish I could have taken it and given it a nice comfy home in my backyard.
Happy cow!
Posted by miri On 5 June, 2007
I was going to name this “udderly happy,” but I couldn’t quite go there.
Golden arches
Posted by miri On 4 June, 2007
Not much left of the old airport hangar. I went out there today to take a few more pictures. (“A few” by my definition, of course.) [view photos]
Republic of Texas Biker Rally
Posted by miri On 2 June, 2007
Darra and I went to see the biker parade last night. So many bikes! They just kept coming and coming. Then, they parked in the middle of Congress Ave – filling up the street from the Capitol to the river. [photo set]
More Google Street View pictures
Posted by miri On 1 June, 2007
I have a feeling people are going to be finding and posting stuff like this for quite awhile. Number 6 is rather sad – it’s of a locally well-known homeless man and his dog. A reported in comments on a Boing Boing post:
Yes, that is Cornelius, who was a gregarious, friendly homeless man here in San Jose. He had a dog, who was the target of some kind of attack, and when Cornelius attempted to defend the dog, he was killed by some freak.