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Weird! I looked out the window and saw a bright yellowish light in the sky, higher than any building... a little higher than the red lights on the nearby radio/whatnot tower. Maybe it was an airplane, but it didn't seem to be moving. And it seemed way too bright to be Mercury or Venus. Plus, it is cloudy in that direction. I got my camera and went outside and took 2 photos. Then, I looked down in order to change the camera settings, and when I looked back up, the light was gone!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008 06:11 pmMaybe it was a signal flare? Fort Jackson is back in that direction. But it was so bright, and yellow, and I would have thought if it was a flare, you'd see it going up and down, not staying in the same place.
Here's the first photo, where it shows up the brightest. The red lights to the left are the tower in the distance, the bright lights in the bottom half are the shopping center (down the slope from here). The arrow is a street sign at my level.
Yep, I guess a flare. Or maybe a helicopter or something.
Here's the first photo, where it shows up the brightest. The red lights to the left are the tower in the distance, the bright lights in the bottom half are the shopping center (down the slope from here). The arrow is a street sign at my level.
Yep, I guess a flare. Or maybe a helicopter or something.
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008 06:44 pmI recently discovered Google's language translation tool. It seems to translate better than BabelFish, at least for the pages I tried.
What would be really useful would be a browser plugin/button, which would let you translate the current page you have open, and have it automatically determine the language so that you don't have to select it from the dropdown. Just one click, and it would open a new window with the page translated.
Nebraska's child abandonment law - somewhat related to one of my recent posts. Now they want to set a lower age limit, because people have been dropping off older kids. But if the parents really don't want the kids, aren't the kids better off without them? Or is the problem that there are really a whole lot of people who'd be glad to be relieved of the work and responsibility of having to raise their children? And that the government doesn't have the resources to handle them all?
There are 3 large trees next to each other, with flaming-red leaves, at work. They are beautiful; striking. Against a blue sky. Against a dark gray sky. Just striking. It always makes me wonder, people going to the northeast to see the colorful autumn trees, when there are colorful trees everywhere. The bright yellow leaves on my tulip-tree have mostly fallen.
I recently watched Brokeback Mountain on DVD, from Netflix. It was a pretty good movie. I asked Q if he wanted to watch it, and he said, "Nah". Why is that? Is it that straight guys aren't supposed to show any interest in things with gay themes, as otherwise they could be suspected of being gay themselves? Or that a straight guy can't conceive of a movie with a gay theme being of any interest to themselves? Admittedly, the movie didn't seem of particular interest to me either, when it came out, which is why I only got around to watching it now. I had a vague curiosity about it; but a couple of cowboys on a mountain finding out they have homosexual feelings... just didn't seem *that* interesting.
What would be really useful would be a browser plugin/button, which would let you translate the current page you have open, and have it automatically determine the language so that you don't have to select it from the dropdown. Just one click, and it would open a new window with the page translated.
Nebraska's child abandonment law - somewhat related to one of my recent posts. Now they want to set a lower age limit, because people have been dropping off older kids. But if the parents really don't want the kids, aren't the kids better off without them? Or is the problem that there are really a whole lot of people who'd be glad to be relieved of the work and responsibility of having to raise their children? And that the government doesn't have the resources to handle them all?
There are 3 large trees next to each other, with flaming-red leaves, at work. They are beautiful; striking. Against a blue sky. Against a dark gray sky. Just striking. It always makes me wonder, people going to the northeast to see the colorful autumn trees, when there are colorful trees everywhere. The bright yellow leaves on my tulip-tree have mostly fallen.
I recently watched Brokeback Mountain on DVD, from Netflix. It was a pretty good movie. I asked Q if he wanted to watch it, and he said, "Nah". Why is that? Is it that straight guys aren't supposed to show any interest in things with gay themes, as otherwise they could be suspected of being gay themselves? Or that a straight guy can't conceive of a movie with a gay theme being of any interest to themselves? Admittedly, the movie didn't seem of particular interest to me either, when it came out, which is why I only got around to watching it now. I had a vague curiosity about it; but a couple of cowboys on a mountain finding out they have homosexual feelings... just didn't seem *that* interesting.