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Butterflies
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Disneyworld Day 4: The Electric Parade
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Fall Foliage
Fall may be the most colorful of all the seasons. Or perhaps the colors are just more striking because the remaining colors present such a contrast. See the full gallery on posterous Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Post on Google Buzz Add this to Google Reader Share this on LinkedIn Tweet [...]
Faces of Sanity
Taking photographs at the rally proved quite challenging. Not only was I surrounded by people as tall or taller than me, but we were standing so close together it was hard to get a good angle on anything. Rather than give up, I decided to make it a challenge. The one thing there was no [...]
Rally to Restore Sanity – The Signs
At any rally you expect to see lots of signs, but attending a rally held by two comedians, I was hoping to see something a bit better than the usual polemic. Did the Rally to Restore Sanity live up to my hopes? Judge for yourself. See the full gallery on posterous Related articles Check Out [...]
Rally For Sanity – Political, not Party Political
In any other society it might seem insane for two late night comedians best known for their work on the Comedy Central cable network to manage to generate more public interest and a larger rally than any political movement (estimates currently range from 150,000 up to 250,000 people). In the United States though it almost [...]
Disney World Day 4 – Morning
After watching the opening ceremony we rushed into the park to enjoy our last day at Disney World. Which included meeting Mary Poppins, riding Splash Mountain, taking a trip on the steam train and visiting Tom Sawyer’s island. See the full gallery on posterous Then we headed for the Crystal Palace to have lunch, but [...]
Portrait Practice
I took the boys on a short hike last Sunday and as usual I took my camera with me. They were having fun and were happy to accommodate my photo requests so I thought it was a great chance to practice my portrait skills. The sun was strong, but since we were in the woods it gave some excellent [...]
Dawn at the Blue Ridge Center
Since my last set of dawn photos were quite successful I thought I’d give it another try at a different location. So 7am on Saturday morning found me on the grounds of the Blue Ridge Center to see what I could see. I shot a lot of pictures and several bracketed exposures The light was [...]
Family Portraits
We took the boys to a fall festival today and as well as taking my usual snapshots of their activities, I got the opportunity to take some portraits of the family while they were relaxing and not paying attention to me or my camera. That’s fairly easy to do with they boys. They’re five after [...]
First Attempts at HDR Photography
I’ve been meaning to try my hand at HDR photography for some time now. I have really mixed feelings about it. Some images do look spectacular, but sometimes all that extra detail detracts from the image rather than adding to it. And it can end up making photos look really unnatural. This was my first [...]
Disneyworld Day 4 – The Magic Kingdom Opening Ceremony
We were up bright and early for our second visit to the Magic Kingdom and arrive before the park had opened. That gave us a chance to enjoy the opening ceremony as Mickey and friends arrived by train to officially welcome visitors to the Magic Kingdom. See the full gallery on posterous Eoghann Irving is [...]
Blue Ridge Center
My wife recently pointed out to me that I had been driving past a possible hiking spot for years without noticing it. At the edge of Loudon County, Virginia is the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship which offers 14 hiking trails covering some 9 miles. So on Sunday I took a little wander to [...]
Net Neutrality – Stop Expecting Google to Do Your Job!
So in the last week there’s been a lot of fuss online about net neutrality. It’s a debate that’s been dragging on for months (years?), but the recent announcement by Google and Verizon of a proposed framework to address net neutrality has brought it out into the open. As far as I can tell with the exception [...]
The Hobbit Animated Movie, Review
Image by ProfessorMortis via Flickr I’ve been on a bit of a Tolkien kick recently (in all honestly I’ve been on a Tolkien kick for my entire life) so I thought I’d watch the 1977 animated tv movie of The Hobbit. I went into this knowing that I really wasn’t the target audience for this [...]
SF Signal
REVIEW: Changeless and Blameless by Gail Carriger
  MY RATING: 
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The continuing adventures of Alexia Maccon, Victorian woman of science.
MY REVIEW:
PROS: Adventurous, charming, and funny, with a great cast of supporting characters.
CONS: The pace occasionally flags.
BOTTOM LINE: Strong continuation to a wonderful series.
Changeless and Blameless constitute books two and three in The Parasol Protectorate series. I reviewed the first novel, Soulless, earlier this year. In that book author Gail Carriger introduced us to her alt-history-steampunk-paranormal-romance universe: In Victorian London, werewolves, vampires and ghosts form an important part of the social order. They sit on a council that advises the queen on matters supernatural. Werewolves form a special part of the armed forces and vampires act in various capacities including intelligence gathering. In this world, Alexia Maccon ne
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Once Upon a Time, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Didn't Have a Lock on the Special-FX Oscar
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Man Keeps Landing on Mars With Mixed Results (in the Movies)
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