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Weekend Frame - Moon Over The Valley

Camera: Nikon D70s
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 48 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 400

Weekend Frame - Round and Round

Round and round we go. Should be a good week at RSA.

 

Weekend Frame - Homebrew

A work buddy made this nice beer.

Weekend Frame - Prickly Bits

Sometimes the scariest things are the ones out in plain view.

Last week of the quarter is just around the corner. 
Careful what you reach for, it might bite back.

Camera: Nikon D70s
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash

Weekend Frame - Squares

Sometimes all your corners look squared up.  Upon second look, things are not as they seem.

Speaking of recursion, on Friday night I attended the LongNow talk with Daniel Everett. "The Pirahã, a remote Amazonian tribe with little outside contact, have attracted the attention of mainstream media, scientists, zen buddhists, professors of religion, mathematicians, philosophers and others because of their unusual confluence of values, language, and culture." 

Part of the synopsis by Stewart Brand:

"The Pirahã tribe in the heart of the Amazon numbers only 360, spread in small groups over 300 miles.  An exceptionally cheerful people, they live with a focus on immediacy, empiricism, and physical rigor that has shaped their unique language, claims linguist Daniel Everett.
The Pirahã language has no numbers or concept of counting (only terms for "relatively small" and "relatively large"); no kinship terms beyond immediate children and parents; no "left" and "right" (only "upriver" and "downriver"); no named distinction of past and future (only near time and far time); no creation stories or myths; and---most important for linguists---no recursion.
A recursive sentence like "The boy who was fishing owned the dog" does not occur in the Pirahã language.  They would say, "The boy was fishing" and "The boy owned the dog."  The eminent linguist Noam Chomsky has declared that recursion is an essential part of human language and is innate.  Chomsky's former student Everett says that the Pirahã language proves otherwise.  The resultant controversy is profound."

Weekend Frame - Yosemite

Just got back from Yosemite.  Here is a frame from my blackberry camera.

This week is going to be busy.
Monday: Internal security training
Tuesday: Microsoft reboot
Wednesday: Expected Adobe reader patch for the 0day issue.

Hacker In Training

Who knows what he will grow up to be.

Camera: Nikon D70s
Exposure: 1/5000 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 85 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Weekend Frame - Dilapidation

Seems like everything is falling apart these days.

Camera: Nikon D70s

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)

Aperture: f/6.3

Focal Length: 210 mm

Exposure: 0.00

ISO Speed: 400

Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV

Weekend Frame - Chileno Valley

This weekend I bring you another frame from Chileno Valley.

 

I made this frame on the day after Christmas in 2008.  We were having such odd weather for December.  In the two prior years, it had flooded or nearly flooded our small town during the Christmas break.  In 2008, we had glorious sun and dramatic evenings.  Taken in the late afternoon looking east, you can see why this valley is wonderful for cattle.  The few trees, smooth hills and abundance of fresh water makes it nearly ideal for the farmers that still own this land today.

Camera: Nikon D70s
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/10.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
Shot raw, converted with Photoshop.

Chileno Valley Pump House (Weekend Frame)

Weekends are suppose to be for taking a break from work.  In real life, that never really happens.  But I will take this quick opportunity to share with you this frame.

These small houses randomly dot my landscapes.  Coming out of the top is a small power line pole.  If you were to jump the farmers fence and trespass across his pasture to open the house door, what you'd find is a water pump.  These pump houses are a valued necessity to the farmer.  For me, they are an interesting icon to be found among the rolling hills amongst the livestock.  Most people drive by them every day, never thinking twice about why a munchkin would setup house in a such a strange place.