February 28, 2005
Monday, Snowy Monday
I can't believe that I made it home from work in the heavy snow in a little over an hour! I have only had that happen about half dozen times on a really nice weather day. I am sure that if I had left work in Reston, VA at...
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02-28-05
February 26, 2005
FRACKING FLOOD
Soaked Batcave I got home last night at 8:00 PM after having worked two twelve hour days in a row and staying with D&A in NoVA for three nights in a row. I was soooooo looking forward to coming home, spending time with Jenne and the cats, and having...
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02-26-05
February 25, 2005
By Audience Command...
...Galactica Returns This Summer!!! My second favorite TV show has been renewed for a second season!!!...
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02-25-05
February 24, 2005
Motion (Shoe Shine) ~ Thursday Challenge Image for 02.24.05
Shoe Shine Getting my dress shoes shined at lunch while attending a software QA conference in Baltimore, MD back in early December of 2004. My submission for this week's Thursday Challenge....
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02-24-05
A French Toast Day
Ummmm French toast arrrrrdrool. I can only assume that is what everyone across Maryland and Virginia is having for breakfast this snowy morning as the grocery stores are out of the three primary ingredients of said toast; those being bread, eggs and milk. Oh, and there's also a shortage of...
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02-24-05
February 23, 2005
Flying the Unfriendly Skies
This entry rated SHG-13 by the Academy of Gaming Arts and Sciences for its Super High Geek factor. It is about combat flight simulations and may not be of interest to everyone. I really geek out in this one. One of my many hobbies - yes ANOTHER hobby - is...
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02-23-05
February 22, 2005
Today on DVD... MIYAZAKI
Naussica of the Valley of the Wind by master Japanese animator and story teller, Hayao Miyazaki is released on DVD today along with two other of his films, Porco Rosso! (AKA The Crimson Pig) and The Cat Returns. Nausicaa is one of my all time favorite movies of any...
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02-22-05
February 21, 2005
Ummmm Still Life Lunch aaaarrrr
Still life study of lunch and light I made this image while at the Fort McHenry Civil War living history event on Sunday. When the troops headed out after lunch to go marching up and down the square I stayed in the barracks and shot still life images. I...
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02-21-05
February 20, 2005
Lunchtime Prayer
Lunchtime Prayer I made this photograph today during a Civil War living history event at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD. My friend Clark re-enacts American Civil War with the 4th US Regulars. Today they had their winter drill day and Clark invited to come along for the photo ops such...
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02-20-05
February 19, 2005
Strawberry Bitch
Strawberry Bitch, American B-24 Liberator bomber. National Musuem of the USAF, Dayton, Ohio While I was photographing this piece of WWII nose art one of the museum volunteers approached Jenne and I. He was a retired gentleman who spent a few days each week at the museum. He told...
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02-19-05
February 18, 2005
Dream Girl Invasion
Dream Girl. More pretty girls on the noses of fighter planes. This painting is on a Korean War A-26C "INVADER"....
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02-18-05
The Hotel that Hitler Built
Now you too can stay where Hitler stayed when he wanted to get away from it all. The new luxury hotel opens this Spring. It will be Sprintime for Hitler and Germany! I bet that my friends DV and JS are calling right now to make reservations....
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02-18-05
February 17, 2005
It's What You See
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvellous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant. -Henri Cartier-Bresson Aperture #129, Fall 1992 Overhead lobby windows at the Hyatt...
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02-17-05
Pretty Girls and Planes...
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, Nose Art on WWII B-17, USAF Museum. ...two great things that go great together. It's called Nose Art and pilots and ground crews have been painting it on combat aircraft since the First World War. Nose art is not just pretty girls, although a lot...
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02-17-05
February 16, 2005
Thursday Challenge Interview
I was recently interviewed via email by Dale Hudjik, host of the weekly photo meme, Thursday Challenge. I participate in Thursday Challenge on a regular basis. You can read the interview by clicking this here linky dink. And while you are visiting the Thursday Challenge site be sure and check...
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02-16-05
February 15, 2005
Flying Tiger
Flying Tiger Photograph made at the National Museum of the United States Airforce, Christmas week 2004. To learn more about the Flying Tigers and the P-40 Warhawk click here....
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02-15-05
February 14, 2005
Blogging Can Get you Fired
No, it has not gotten me fired, but it has gotten some people fired from their jobs. Read about it here at Washington Post Dot Com. You will have to register to read the article, but registration is free and pretty painless. The article is worth reading, especially if you...
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02-14-05
February 13, 2005
HERE COME THE A, B, Cs
Via virtual friend Lee Ann's blog, The Black Cloud It's a musical appreciation weekend here at Burnham-Down-The-House! I hope you checked out Nature Anthem. A favorite musical group of ours', THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS are holding a series of free concerts to promote their new kid's centered album, Here Comes...
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02-13-05
February 11, 2005
And Now for Something Completely Different...
... and oh so cute and oh so safe for work, unless your boss listens to Limbaugh or Hannity. If this little music video doesn't bring a big smile to your face and lighten your mood and your step your'e either a Cylon, dead, or a member of the environment...
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02-11-05
February 10, 2005
Discrimination is Discrimination is Discrimination
Virginia pushed forward on Monday with moving backward socially and culturally. The Virginia House voted 78-18 in favor of the amendment, which defines marriage as the union of a man and woman and bans same-sex civil unions. Well there's another point in the victory column for the champions of discrimination,...
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02-10-05
Mess ~ Thursday Challenge Image for 02.10.05
Brianna and the Ice Cream Back in December, Jenne and I visited for a day with Jenne's younger brother, Jon and his family. It was the first time I got to meet my niece and nephew, Brianna and Joshua. I hit it off real well with the kids and...
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02-10-05
February 08, 2005
By Your Command... Battlestar Encore
Folks if you still aren't onboard with the Sci-Fi channel's hit show, Battlestar Galactica tonight -Tuesday 02.08.05 - is your night. Starting at 7:00 PM the Sci-Fi Channel is showing an encore presentation of the first five episodes! Set those VCRs, TIVOs and/or DVDRs and catch THE BEST sci-fi on...
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02-08-05
February 07, 2005
Check Out the New Pad
My good friend, Steve has moved his weblog to a new pad where readers can leave comments. Go and check it out and leave comments. You know you don't have anything better to do. ;-)...
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02-07-05
Super Bowl OR Super Bore... OR... WHERE DID THE BOOBIES GO??
Let me start by saying a big sarcastic dripping thank you to Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Michael Powell (former head of the FCC) and right wing Puritanism for America’s continued paranoia about the boobie and all things nude. It’s so pervasive and suffocating that even the cheerleaders at this year’s...
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02-07-05
How many Bush Administration officials...
...does it take to change a light bulb?...
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02-07-05
February 06, 2005
To Kneel Before God
Altar Kneeler at Christ's Church The afternoon sun of late summer casts shadows through a window frame, across the marble floor and onto an altar kneeler at Historic Christ's Church. The church is located in in Lancaster County, VA on the Northern Neck between the towns of Kilmarnock and...
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02-06-05
February 05, 2005
Dive Brakes
Dive Brakes in Abstract, Northrop A-17A attack aircraft. Another image from our visit to the National Museum of the USAF during the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2004. The undercarriage of this particular aircraft was illuminated with red and blue lights....
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02-05-05
February 03, 2005
Hamilton Standard
Hamilton Standard An abstract of a propellor blade on a Boeing P-26A on display at the National Museum of the USAF....
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02-03-05
Going Number Two to the Sound of Music
Well yesterday I made an entry about a crappy movie and today's first entry is about taking a crap... in style and to the sounds of music! From one of my favorite blogs - Tokyo Times - I bring you this article about the latest in Japanese toilet tech!! I...
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02-03-05
February 02, 2005
Looks Great! Less Filling!
I saw a movie last night that has everything I love in an action, adventure, sci-fi movie; fighter planes, zeppelins, giant robots, spaceships, fantastical machines, an evil German genius, aerial and undersea battles, and two beautiful women. From beginning to end it had amazing visuals and great cinematic style harkening...
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02-02-05
February 01, 2005
Wings
Wings A view looking down and between the length of the right wings and towards the cockpit of the Packard LePere LUSAC....
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02-01-05