Selby Botanical gardens, Sarasota
Category Archives: true life 2009
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Yesterday I tried making an iphone video while we drover over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. I did it on a whim, in a moving car, with no way to practice the framing or reshoot so I was especially pleased with the results.
the view from here
Although there are a lot of goldfinches in my neighborhood, in the mornings it’s usually just a pair of the little yellow piglets feasting on the sunflowers outside the kitchen window. I was playing with my camera this morning and took a 60 second video of them. It’s so cute to watch them ripping the flowers to bits, petal by petal…
iphone
I got nothin’ – unless you want to hear about how impressed I am with the quality of my iphone’s camera. (The googlemaps/GPS thingy? Not so much).
“The homicidal GPS is telling me to drive straight for .52 more miles.”
Happy 10th, Metafilter
It’s hard to believe, but MetaFilter is 10 years old.
Today’s the DC Meetup, but I’m not attending. Not only would trying to wedge one more thing into this weekend make me spontaneously combust, but I’ve always read it but I was never really an active participant on metafilter. I can’t even remember my login (Skarlet?).
On a related note, we got to see Rick and Sarah last night at our old haunt, Atomic Billiards. (They’re in town to go to the mefi shindig). If you visit their site, you can read about how I inadvertently played matchmaker for them at a blogger meetup at Atomic in 2002. (Yes there were blogger gatherings way back then in the dark ages).
No time to post pics from last night. Dr. Birdcage is on her way over and we have Artomatic responsibilities to attend to. Being a grown-up is very boring sometimes. Hey, there’s a matrimonial theme here – I wrote Dr. Birdcage’s wedding.
Life’s just wacky that way.