Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I told you when the girlfriend woke up, we’d start making arrangements to get those photos uploaded so you can see how much better her camera is. Here are some of ’em. You can click the thumbnails to embiggen. We’ll start with her zoom-in on her schmuck’s tee shirt:
Here’s the lighthouse at Point Arena which you saw from my own photo album:
Lighthouse, closer:
Once we hit the lighthouse balcony, we both went hog-wild. She has many more where this one came from:
And here you can see the right side of schmuck’s flabby body during our tandem photo session:
Down in the museum, here’s a movie poster for the Mel Gibson flick about the airplane pilot:
Okay, backing up to Monday night & Tuesday morning. Here is the marina in Petaluma, where we started out. I think I might have some pics of this same marina, in fact I know I do. I’ll have to fetch those later for comparison. But it shouldn’t be that important at this point, you should already be able to see the difference in quality.
We scooted on up to Bodega Bay on Tuesday. Regular visitors to the Tides Wharf restaurant and gift shop will be familiar with the hundred year old whaling pot below. Perfectly suitable for melting down whale fat, or for frying up Islamic terrorists in bacon grease:
Duck. She was testing the limits of the telephoto lens.
Sailboat. Don’t ask me about the incline. Some other tourists had questions about this, and none of the locals we contacted knew anything about it. Some exotic gravity-fed method of bilge pumping?
As you leave the Bodega Bay by way of the North city limits, the highway will graciously meet up with the coastline forming North Salmon Creek, popular breaking-out, mounting-up and attire-changing spot for the surfers. We’ve visited here many a time, and I had graciously indicated this was about the point of our vacation where we should start doing the walk-barefoot-in-sand thing.
This is a good test of the camera. She discovered a few weeks ago it is particularly well-suited for close-ups of interesting-looking plant life, like this:
Once down on the beach, she took some pictures of the elevated position and I liked the way this one turned out of the adjacent rock formation:
Seagull. You’ve already seen my pic; compare & contrast.
And here is the schmuck, with a head full of (receding) hotel-shampoo-hair, getting ready to do his barefoot-walkin’.
We have more; actually, these are the boring ones, their value is that you can zoom in and admire photophile stuff, like pixel revolution, blur removal, et al. The ones still in the pipeline are a bit better for piquing genuine interest among those who are not so enamored of such technical minutiae. I’ll get back to the project as time permits.
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Heh,
I want to get that shirt so I can “innocently” wander around the university I work at. I have a shirt that says “peace through superior firepower” and it has the peace sign in the form of a B-52…
Although I haven’t worn that on campus, I’ve told several of my colleagues about it and they were aghast.
On second thought, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea because I’d most likely get canned after wearing that.
- Mat | 06/11/2010 @ 07:45“Gravity fed method of bilge pumping?!” Landlubber. The tide has receded and her keel is resting on the bottom.
- westsoundmodern | 06/11/2010 @ 07:58Beautiful pics by the way. I need to get out to the Pacific coast more often. Nothing like it.
Mat,
A few years ago I had the delightful experience of wearing a “Re-Defeat Communism in ’08” tee shirt with Hillary’s face on it…into Starbucks in downtown New Paltz. Yes, I’m evil. The manager was “joking” to me that they don’t allow politically-charged statements in their shop; somehow, if I got the “mistaken” notion she was being serious, I doubt very much that I would have been corrected about it. I also doubt very much that there would be such “joking” if I wore some kind of a Bush == Hitler or “9/11 was an inside job” item.
Four years later, my “Re-Defeat Communism in ’12” shirt with His Holy Eminence’s visage, gets me high-fives and thumbs-up pretty much everywhere I go. Last time it happened was in downtown Napa, last night.
Mark,
What can I say? I knew the explanation would be simple. And I knew it would have something to do with calling me a landlubber. I plead guilty. Man’s gotta know his limitations.
- mkfreeberg | 06/11/2010 @ 08:33Morgan,
I graduated from SUNY New Paltz back in ’95 so I know exactly what you mean. To say that New Paltz is a hippie town is kinda like saying the sun is “kinda bright.”
- Mat | 06/11/2010 @ 09:31Bear in mind that I was fairly liberal back then (though not as wacko as many of the people there), but still, I often think about that time and ask myself “why?”
…interesting-looking plant life, like this:
Ah, ice plant. The alternate California state flower, innit? I haven’t seen any since I left the Golden State. And Good God, Morgan… your HAIR! That looks like a mulletized mohawk. Just sayin’, and all that. Nice pics!
Mat sez: I have a shirt that says “peace through superior firepower” and it has the peace sign in the form of a B-52…
I have the same shirt and it gets lotsa thumbs-up and approving nods in this part o’ the world. Being a retired USAF type I have a pretty good collection of aircraft tees… my two favorites being the dearly departed F-15 and full-color BUFF shirts. I used to wear those to the coffee shops on Sunday morning when I lived in Beserkeley just coz they were GREAT conversation starters. 😉
- bpenni | 06/11/2010 @ 11:10The hair’s on vacation too. Don’t think it doesn’t know. 😀
- mkfreeberg | 06/11/2010 @ 12:13Okay, girlfriend break’s over. Back on your head.
- vanderleun | 06/11/2010 @ 13:10I know these ice plants.
You are welcome to stay off your head, but no more post titles that get a guy thinking there might be pictures of a girlfriend upcoming, after the requests of the other day.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 06/11/2010 @ 21:44