Found a time lapse video I made in May 2001. I put a web camera at my window and had it take a picture every 15 seconds and then left for work. I returned home later that evening and this is the result:

I was awakened early this morning by the sound of fire engines going down the street. Usually I fall back to sleep as they continue down East Broadway past my window; but this morning they stopped in front. Now I was awake. I live in an old tenement and with the engines stopped just outside; it was time to investigage. I looked out the window and saw that the main activity was two doors down so I could put on some clothes and go out on the fire escape and take some pictures.

Here is a video pan of the engines that showed up for the show. It is taken using the video mode of my Canon PowerShot A95:



B&W version using B&W in the video mode:

Second You Tube upload. This one is a set of still images taken in sequences and put together into a "movie" I like how it tricks the eye into thinking it is has movement. I know that is what a "real" movie does, but this isn't as smooth and yet it still tricks the eye. I had a audio track of a Ray Charles song with it, but copyright rules would frown on it in a public space.

Did my first You Tube upload. It is a movie I took from the first car of an A Train on the way back from JFK. It is pretty hokey, but if you like looking out the door of the first car it isn't bad.

From Orcinus, Dave Niewert's excellent blog;

"The other kind of terrorist

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Hey, here's another addition to that gallery [picture of David McMenemy] (inspired by Michelle Malkin) of terrorists who happen to be white fundamentalist fanatics:...

Jennifer Pozner's Newsday column hits the target precisely:

On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.

No national newspaper, magazine or network newscast reported this attempted suicide bombing, though an AP wire story was available. Cable news (save for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) was silent about this latest act of terrorism in America.

Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism -- even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war."

Some pictures I took during a walk in Inwood Hills Park at the upper limit of Manhattan Island.

Upper Manhattan

During last evening's thunderstorms. I was lucky to make it under a scaffold and awning before the skies really opened up.

New store opening across East Broadway this afternoon.

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According to the news sources , Yahoo, Bush authorized Libby to leak secret information and Chaney is probably involved. Sounds like federal offensed to me. If they both are removed here, from the Cornell Law School US Code collection, is the "Law of Presidential Succession":


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§ 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act
Release date: 2006-03-20

(a)
(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
(2) The same rule shall apply in the case of the death, resignation, removal from office, or inability of an individual acting as President under this subsection.
(b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

In Slavoj Zizek's book, The Puppet and the Dwarf - The Perverse Core of Christianity he writes:

"The first thing we should add to this today is that the same goes for advocates of religion themselves: how many fanatical defenders of religion started by ferociously attacking contemporary secular culture and ended up forsaking religion itself (losing any meaningful religious experience)? And is it not a fact that, in a strictly analogous way, liberal warriors are so eager to fight antidemocratic fundamentalism that they will end up flinging away freedom and democracy themselves, if only then can fight terror? They have such a passion for proving that non-Christian fundamentalism is the main threat to freedom that they are ready to fall back on the position that we have to limit our own freedom here and now, in our allegedly Christian societies. If the "terrorists" are ready to wreck this world for love of the other, our warriors on terror are ready to wreck their own democratic world out of hatred for the Muslim other. Jonathan Alter and Alan Dershowitz love human dignity so much that they are read to legalize torture -- the ultimate degradation of human dignity--to defend it.

Snow(?) Pile

Snow(?) Pile
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

This is what a snowpile looks after lying on the ground after 4 days in the streets of New York. It redefines the term, "pure as the driven snow!"