Egyptian Lantern Slides – General Views & People – from the Brooklyn Museum plus lantern slides of Egyptian Places from the same source, flickr The Commons.
The Web. What a wonder.
November 14, 2008
October 8, 2008
Off I go again.
This time to Baltimore and Bouchercon.
Have to be at the airport by 5A, which means up by 4A in order to get some espresso in my system.
Walked down the hill tonight for a gathering to talk about our neighborhood community center, Tel-Hi. Our friend Donna is the development director. She spends her days raising money for the center. Another friend, Gail, is on the board and spoke tonight and sent e-mails to people she knew on the invite list, saying you must come, will I see you there.
Met some nice people. Bumped into some old friends. The hosts had a Dali on their wall, a portrait of the wife at age maybe eight twelve with her mother. A definite Dali, but no melting watches or weirdnesses. Wonderful place filled with interesting stuff.
Wonderful place. Genuine people. Good cause.
We — well, I — missed the debate. We walked down the hill and over to the gathering and I could hear Obama’s voice coming out of open windows as neighbors watched the debate we’d jettisoned in order to support a good cause. I’m sure I’ll be able to pick up on what happened at the debate some time between now and when the next debate happens.
See you ’round some time after I get back. I get back late Monday. Give me at least Tuesday to veg out on the couch and restore my social equilibrium.
His nibs will be home for Fleet Week and the Blue Angels, but I’ll miss all that. C’est la vie.
Baltimore here I come.
October 5, 2008
Late again, naturally.
Just realized when checking the program schedule for Bouchercon that although I (rightly) booked Oct 8 – 13 for the hotel — and booked early enough this year to actually get in the convention hotel — my frequent-flyer tickets are for the 9th and I’m arriving late afternoon, so I’ll miss the first day. Don’t know how that mixup happened.
Drat.
Double drat because I’d already begun ratcheting up my “maybe I don’t want to go after all” “who really will I know” misgivings and this almost completely derailed me.
I’ve recovered. I’ll call the hotel and tell them I won’t be there until the 9th.
But drat anyway.
Update: His nibs, being the sweet feller he is, called Delta and asked how much it would cost to change my tickets from Thursday 7A to Wednesday and they said, $100. So, his nibs, being the sweet feller he is, changed the tickets. Bless his heart. Plane leaves at 6A Wednesday and xfers through Atlanta, then on to Baltimore.
September 27, 2008
September 18, 2008
August 9, 2008
Found at Looney’s — Matt’s video
Watch Matt do his silly dance around the world from Thimpu to Timbuktu to the Giant’s Causeway to Rio.
Like Looney, I’d never seen this before, although it’s one of those viral things that swept the Web three years back. Where was I? Obviously not where Matt was filming his clips.
Looney said this was a happy vid and it is, but it also made me tear up a bit. All those places. All those people. Every one linked by Matt Harding and his silly dance.
Update: I figured what the tearing up was about. Matt and his dance reminds me of the younger nib, who will be “away” until June 2010 — dancing, like Matt, with people he meets along the way.
Update2: An earlier Where the Hell is Matt? and another.
July 21, 2008
Back.
Working on pics.
I promised the PCV that I’d get my favorite photos pulled together in a more timely manner than norm.
Our guide had backed up a bit when he saw our visitor headed our way, backed up just enough that he cleared the path over to the right that the elephants used to cross the dirt road. Our visitor came within a foot of the hood and veered off to the right.
Our South African companion in the front seat is deathly afraid of elephants. She was not at all amused as the beast got nearer and nearer and nearer.
June 27, 2008
June 23, 2008
Zimbabwe … Zambia. What other countries begin with Z?
Upcoming trip to Africa was to include South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. …
The organizers just called to say (surprise!) the Zimbabwe leg has been canceled. We’ll be going to Zambia instead. Organizers will pay for all Zambian visas &c. The visas we had for Zimbabwe won’t be needed after all.
