Grump

Breeders. Don't they know what "birth control" is used for?

That is all.

My Domain

My monkeys think I don't know where all their "blogs" are. Now I'm in this one, too. 

Shelly

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Gah! I have to fix this infernal "feature"

Suddenly, Verizon Wireless started appending a long-ass and completely annoying message to my moblog photos. This must be stopped.

It's odd, but I thought I had this set up with a bunch of text from Flickr. Must look into that. Oh, wait! This was sent via Blogger's new mobile phone feature. There must be a settings page to stop that.

William jackson harper

Aids walk chicago

Episcopal News Service: Mainline Churches Urge Congress on poverty issues

[Episcopal News Service] Leaders of five mainline denominations have joined in a renewed call on Congress to oppose cuts to programs serving the poor in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Congress this week postponed consideration of the FY '06 federal budget reconciliation process, which would make deep cuts in programs that serve the working poor, children and seniors.
'In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it is clear that greater burdens on these programs such as Medicaid and the Food Stamp Program will occur,' said John Johnson, domestic policy analyst in the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations. 'The leaders of the Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church, USA, United Methodist Church and United Church of Christ have consistently opposed cuts to vital programs serving the least among us included in this year's federal budget"

The Beauty of the Eye As Seen By The Beholder

This photo, as noted, originally from NOAA.

This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image.
Via: Flickr
Title: Hurricane Katrina Eye viewed from Hurricane Hunter

By: 敏
Disclaimer: This picture is not taken by me.
I put it here to commemorate the wrath of Hurricane Katrina.

View of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, as seen from a NOAA P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft before the storm made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast. (Courtesy NOAA)

This image originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Originally uploaded: 31 Aug '05, 11.48pm PST

Sushi?

Mobile

Sushi... must... have...sushi

Check out CSS code later

c u l t u r e k i t c h e n

Zen and the Art of Hello, Picasa, and Blogger.

Okay, new laptop computer, and I'm tinkering with layout and so on from Hello, after installing Hello and Picasa (Google products both of them). Then things are going to get even wiggier when I send stuff from Flickr...

One of the things that I never figured out before was how to get a simple line break in these posts from Hello's "Bloggerbot" image-sharing chat doohickey that sends posts to Blogger (to update this site, for example).

Apparently, it was too simple: I have to insert a
tag. A format that is deprecated by finer web gods everywhere. Silly of me not to think of it, since I'd noticed Blogger does some rather odd things with its code.

However, multiple images is easy: just add a || double pipe at the end of each caption, hit "enter", and the image is "queued." Do it several times, adding a new picture for each, and then hit "publish" when ready.


And there you have it. Multiple images and multiple paragraphs. It was driving me nuts because I'd have to open Blogger just to edit a big block of text into more reasonable paras.



So why didn't they make a simple "paragraph/queue image" button, instead of hiding this keyboard shortcut deep in a user help forum buried in Googlegroups? Don't know; I'm just happy to have figured it out.


And now, I shall contemplate the Zen of it.

Synergy Brass Quintet

Synergy Brass Quintet
Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57.

Just wanted to see if my new Flickr layout works for this blog.

We were accidental tourists that day in May... first to arrive after the accident occured, called emergency services, found people who had first aid experience, and tried to keep the two kids that were in this car calm. The driver had a few cuts, his friend had to be cut out. He got off with only a broken leg. The driver of the other car (a truck) looked fine, but eventually a doctor that happened by was drafted to get him into a neck collar and keep him calm before they could all be transported. There's a nurse under the white blanket, keeping a blood pressure cuff on the young man, because we had no idea if he was bleeding (internally or externally). The passenger door was bent in a sharp "V," pinning him in his seat and making it impossible to tell how bad his injuries were. It took an hour for them to get him out and on his way to the nearest hospital, which fortunately wasn't as far away as Seattle... but then, it was still half an hour away. 

london/july 7th

london/july 7th
Originally uploaded by fleabilly.

Another excellent image from the same photographer. Sometimes a quick, out-of-focus snapshot tells the story, too.

london/july 7th

london/july 7th
Originally uploaded by fleabilly.

An amazing B/W image of a man who was one of the first survivors of the 7/7 bombing to emerge and be caught up in the media maelstrom. I remember seeing him on television that morning; he kept his head, made clear statements, and sounded like he's a member of the British legal system. And yet his face was so desperately sad and worried, even as he answered questions patiently and with great attention.

Not Again

Not Again
Originally uploaded by StickerEsq.

Two weeks to the day and now there are more reports of explosions in London.

Not so many screencaps on the Flickr group this time, but already there are photos from one of the affected stations.

Woohoo! I've been totally misquoted in Italian!

Corriere della Sera - I clic dall'incubo scattati dai sopravvissuti: "E' circolata subito su Internet, rilanciata dai vari fotoblog che raccoglievano materiale sulle bombe di Londra. Non e' l'unica. Basta andare sul sito www.flickr.com/groups/bomb/pool/ per avere un'idea. E' un diario di immagini da condividere, in maggioranza prese dall�esterno. Un giornale online comunque prezioso. C' Marty che ha inquadrato una coda inconsueta per il traghetto a Canary Wharf che ricorda un po' quelle di New York 11 settembre: d' l'idea della citt' bloccata che cerca di tornare a casa. GinnyRed57 con il suo cellulare ha ripreso un avviso scritto su una lavagna di scuola o di un asilo. "Please do not inform children of the... explosions". Per favore non informate i bambini. Forse Ginny e' una maestra, forse una bidella. Di certo coglie un elemento cruciale, che torner' a preoccupare nei prossimi giorni le famiglie (non solo inglesi): cosa dire ai bambini."

As near as I can make out, this section of the article is a musing on "what to tell the children." It must be a quote from above or below one of mine. It's certainly nothing I'D ever say.

Non l'ho scritto, non ho qualcuni di gli bambini (Now that's Italian, more or less).

Susan Levy

Susan Levy
Originally uploaded by Smoth 007.

Remember them all.

Jamie Gordon

Jamie Gordon
Originally uploaded by Smoth 007.

In remembrance

Philip Stuart Russell

Philip Stuart Russell
Originally uploaded by Smoth 007.

In remembrance

Lest We Forget ...

Lest We Forget ...
Originally uploaded by Lynn Morag.

""There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts."

~ William Shakespeare ~

"The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours, and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.
For the peace of the years
In the long green grass
Will be yours, and yours and yours."

~ Violette Szabo ~

We cannot possibly forget. And now when I get home I must remember to water the rosemary. I originally planted some in the spring of 2002 with a friend's help, specifically "for remembrance."

This is part of a world-wide meme to post pictures of white hands in protest of terrorism and to show support for its victims.

Flicker group: Peaceful Protest (White Hands)...

Beauty so fleeting you'd miss it if you blinked.

More soothing images of flowers for your inner peace.

Cliff House

MesaVerde047
Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57.

Just testing a slightly different layout from Flickr...

Himalayan Blue Poppy - Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC. This is the "signature" flower of Butchart and as it happens we were there when they were in bloom.

London tube bombing - from within

London tube bombing
Originally uploaded by qwghlm.

This image is one of the rare ones showing a scene from inside the Tube this morning. Originally uploaded by Adam Stacey at a British moblog site.

Later on the image showed up on TV coverage, which was duly photoblogged on Flickr.

Tears

Tears
Originally uploaded by Marvin (PA).

Also posted with this image:

Fear, Fear, she's the mother of Violence,
Don't make any sense to watch the way she breed.
Fear, she's the mother of Violence,
Making me tense to watch the way she feed.
The only way you know she's there
Is the subtle flavor in the air.
Getting hard to breathe,
Getting hard to believe in anything at all
But Fear. (Peter Gabriel)

Ocean beach, Olympic National Park

Indian Paintbrush, MRNP

Thistle and Indian Paintbrush, Mount Rainier National Park

Morning dew, Mount Rainier National Park

Nurse log at Hoh River Rain Forest

Mesa Verde

MesaVerde047
Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57.

Just one of my photos from Flickr, which I haven't used very much, but might start to use a lot more.

Previously with this blog, I was using Picasa's Hello software, which is a fine product but not available for me to use at all of the computers I use.

So we'll see how this looks.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Holy Innocents Stuff

Planning for the "Holy Rollers" Classic Car Show is starting to pick up speed - it's July 10th from 9am to 3pm at Holy Innocents.

(this is more or less a test post - I'll be adding Flickr photos shortly)

Commentary

Since all the recent comments point toward similar sounding shopping sites, it appears that a spammer is laboriously trying to leave their droppings by hand.

This is not a good idea, spammer. Blogger is just too... slow for that to pay off.

For now, only registered users will be able to comment (not that I ever got that many on this site). If the spamming continues, I'll disable comments.

The spammer does get one half point for bothering to make relevant comments, however.

Holy Innocents T-Shirts and Stuff

Yep, I'm probably going to hell for this: I've started a store on Cafe Press.

Regardez:



What do you think of them lilies, er, apples? I already bought the tote for myself so I can haul church-related crap and junk and files and music around with me.

More designs to follow - we're doing a classic car show in July, and I wanted people that are volunteering for it a chance to buy T-shirts to wear for the event and other projects or work parties we do.

I may have to move the one "joke" T-shirt to a different store, but I wanted at least one funny one on there. We'll see.

Coming soon - more general T-shirts and stuff with an Episcopalian motif. Such as "Pet me, I'm Episcopawlian" for a dog shirt. And more bad joke hilarity ensues.

Serenity Movie Sneak Preview May 5

You have to join the Browncoats to get tickets to the sneak previews, which will be held in one of 10 cities on May 5th: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Portland OR, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle.

The movie doesn't officially come out until September 30th: Joss Whedon is throwing the ravening fans a bone here. Come out and see the Big Damn Movie already.

Welcome Back Dr. Banner

In a miraculous development, Dr. Bruce Banner has emerged from a persistent vegetable state. Dr. Banner suffers from a variant of Oppositional Defiant Syndrome called "tantrumoid broccoline giantitis."

He is currently resting comfortably, but there is no telling how long he will be in remission. He might want to look into filing a Living Green Will so that his wishes are followed by his caregiver. It should be very simply formatted as the caregiver speaks only very limited English:

Hulk's Do List!

1. Throw out pizza boxes ALL the way out in the garbage.


2. Do laundry sometimes. Yes, fold it too!


3. Open birthday cards.


4. Smash responsibly.

Hulk's Do Not Do List!

1. Do not let Thor get to you. Just ignore him and his stupid hair.


2. Do not get mad. Count to 10. Okay count to 3 its faster.


3. Do not throw out bills. Forward to stupid Jarvis.

Okay, the picture is crap, but it was a momentous occasion: the first and last live performance of the Bubblewrap Ballet.

Japanese Garden. The teahouse is only used maybe once a year. I've never seen it open. On my big trip to the real Japan, I went to a famous garden in Nara... and the teahouse there was open. That was in the fall, and the colors were gorgeous. I really should scan those photos and upload them.

Chicago Botanic Garden/Sensory Garden... oh, yes, spring is nearly here. I've added another sub-album to the CBG gallery. In a couple of weeks, the hillsides will one solid mass of daffodils. Heaven.

Spring can't come soon enough for me.

Also taken with the HP. Taken in Yorkshire, England September 2003, on the footpath "over the tops" between Kettlewell and Grassington.

Taken with an HP digital camera (now sold, specs unavailable)