Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President...
M82-Bode’s Galaxy on 3/8/08
Tonight was kind of hazy so I decided to just get one image. I’ve imaged Bode’s Galaxy before, but never for very long. It’s actually quite large and a reasonably easy-to-find target. It and the Cigar Galaxy...
This isn’t a self portrait (obviously) but it is a picture I wanted to share from my Orlando trip. The quintessential picture with Mickey!
When our group (Courtney, Trevor, and me!) arrived in Mickey’s Toontown Fair there were two houses-...
A pastor had been on a long flight between church conferences. The first warning of the approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane flashed on: Fasten Your Seat Belts. Then, after a while, a calm voice said, "We...
My tech-savvy wife spotted and correctly identified the Google Map's street view car in Chattanooga last week. Here is a shot of it working in Knoxville: Wonder what weird things they'll catch Chattanoogans doing. Reality Me » Knoxville Street Views Happening Now...
Pensieve's Poetic License has been tons o' fun this month with all things "limerick", and it's been a delight to see new voices mingled with the familiar. Please be sure and visit the participants if this poetic form tickles your...
My daughter Esme' was born 25 years ago on March 10th. It was a snowy cold day in Tn in 1983. Today she is in Fl at her grandparent's home relaxing and enjoying her spring break. She...
I’m glad this game was televised, because there really is a lot to say about the play of both teams in this game, which wasn’t as close as the 93-89 final score might indicate. CBU led almost the entire...
Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) For too long, agricultural history has told the stories of commodity production alone. Scholarly treatments of the Columbian Exchange, meanwhile,...
Well, the season’s finally over. All-in-all, I think last place in the SEC was almost guaranteed since January. Only a complete collapse by Alabama and Georgia’s continued post-Harrick hangover made the competition for last place interesting. Heck, LSU fired Brady...
Finally!Is he heading for a game show? A video store? Jon's studio? Who cares! I want to know who's going to replace him! UPDATE: more here and here....
Reaction to Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002). Larding the Lean Earth is a provocative work. In part this stems from Steven Stoll’s knack for turning...
David Vaught, Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). Perhaps more than any other state, California is indelibly associated with what has been called “agribusiness” or “industrial agriculture.” The state’s...
Review Essay of: Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001) David Vaught, Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) Contradictions make good material for history...
"Although teachers must plan classes diligently--indeed genius may be diligence--the teaching life is messy. You don't sit in a study surrounded by leather-bound books, titles stamped on their spine in gilt. You sit in a classroom, students and...
Cindy Hahamovitch, The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Cindy Hahamovitch’s moral clarity is refreshing. Without pausing to apologize or equivocate, The Fruits of...
I would just like to point out how yesterday I didn’t blog once about snow and how ridiculous is was to have snow in March, in the South. I didn’t rush out and take any pictures, I didn’t even take...
Boil water.
Grind two scoops of roasted beans on a medium-fine setting.
Put the filter in the AeroPress (this can be easy to forget sometimes). Also, if you re-use the filter like I do, it may be a little crinkled....
Photo Messier Marathon 2008 - Day 1
Here’s the composite image of all 43 of the Messier Objects I captured last night. Each image is made of fifteen 15s images stacked (225s total). I’m hoping to fill the entire grid out...
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The Bisons played a rare high-scoring GSC contest in the tournament semifinals against the East’s #2 seed, Valdosta State, but...
You could say I’ve been a quilt machine lately. But with all of these wonderful friends having babies what else could I do but make cute quilts for them!? So here’s my sweet friend Annie’s quilt. I...
"The requirements for proving unlawful sexual intercourse are even more strict than for the other hadd offences. On the strength of K 24:4* full evidence for this crime requires the concurring testimonies of four male eyewitnesses. They must...
Tonight, I started a Photographic Messier Marathon. The traditional Messier Marathon consists of trying to visually spot all 110 Messier Objects in a single night. There’s only one time of year where it’s really possible to do and you have to...
The other day I enjoyed such a lovely walk to the grocery store and back. 3 miles of walking. I loved it.
Grace asked why I was taking pictures of butter and my friend Deb has put them to use: she...
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