Month: February 2013

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...And Little E Makes 3 Gaming

Boys’ day out!

This was a blog entry from a couple of weekends ago that sat unfinished for an unreasonable amount of time – so long, in fact, that we went a second time before the entry was finished! The good news is that the games described are still there!

Mom’s exhausted. The boy’s ready to get out of the house, having been stuck at home with dad for a few days with no car to go anywhere. I’m feeling a little cooped up myself. It’s time to let mom get some shut-eye and for the boys to do what they do best – find a place full of games and hang out! You can probably see where this is headed…

Hobby Bopper … Read more

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Home Base Should We Talk About The Weather?

Icing

Me and Little E wandered around the house and found lots of things that had their own personal layers of ice.

Icing

Icing

Icing

There were a few shots where the camera lens had fogged over, and I thought these might be unrecoverable until I loaded them up and did some sharpening work on them. Here you can see where the snow has melted out from under the ice on the trees, leaving a hollow shell of ice precariously perched on the tree limbs.

Icing

Icing

The fogged up lens forced a soft focus/bokeh effect where none was planned.… Read more

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Should We Talk About The Weather?

Last report for tonight

The front yard again; any bright, colorful things you see are either freezing rain caught in the flash… or the reflection of the tree limbs and branches in the distance, which are all nicely coated with ice.

Q

And the ice is the real problem at this point; freezing rain keeps coming down, and it keep flirting with being warm enough to turn into liquid rain. The problem there is that there’s a constant biting wind outside keeping everything, including the precipitation, frozen. There’s also a coating of ice on the power lines outside which is a real cause for concern.

Q

On the freaky side, we may actually have thundersnow tonight. I’m actually looking forward to that. 😆… Read more

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Should We Talk About The Weather?

Right on Q…

QSo, if one puts any stock into the Weather Channel’s invented, hurricanesque “storm names” for winter storms – names that are their invention and not recognized or sanctioned (but are, in all likelihood, giggled at) by the actual Weather Service – we are being hit by “Winter Storm Q” right now. (Winter Storm Khan hit another part of the country a few weeks ago.) Right now, we’ve got snow transitioning into something harder and nastier, sleet and little ice pellets. As if my exile to the house needed to be formalized somehow, me and the boy are stuck here for a while. … Read more

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Television & Movies Toiling In The Pixel Mines

The much-missed joys of nocturnal aviation

Night FlightA friend’s mention of the HD restoration of Bambi Meets Godzilla triggered a distant memory of something on TV that was actually – so help me – fun and exciting and mind-expanding. At the dawn of the 1980s, USA Network’s overnight weekends were filled not with informercials, but with the marvel of free-association video that was Night Flight. … Read more