In response to positions taken over at the Canon DSLR Challenges on my new Galleries, AND a new Gallery....See Below:

Regarding the galleries and how they are negotiated...I am of two minds, on the one hand I want to understand what people are saying, on the other however, there is something inside of me saying....I don't care.

Maybe I need to leave instructions better...but click on image for full screen and then back space to the original journal format does not, at this moment, to me, seem too onerous.

....I was really moved by Zelig's recounting of his heart procedure....at least in no small part because it was so damn well written.

I was there with him.

There's always a little blues after big time stuff...so, while hardly complete, and I'm setting out in a whole new direction and means of displaying my pictures....even though they are not ready and you may see them again when they are more complete...for Zelig, I'll post what I have now.

But remember, with 2,000 pictures taken, this 30 or so picture run is only a start...and the jungle stuff will come later.

As in picking up a third of the tab if I bid and win?

Full disclosure, I would require that we do Chicago unless someone wants to cover MY travel expenses. Heh!

There are other good opportunities (Lawrence Lessig for example) but those appear to be located & scheduled at the Netroots Nations event.

While reading K's recent diary about being a couch potato, I suddenly realised the difference between the East and West. The answer - East of Suez, We.Cannot.Cook.Potatoes.

There have been complaints that this site is "too hard", so here's a chance for you to make up some points before final grades are issued.

1. Hank has to visit some friends in the city. He leaves for Jersey City (20 miles away) at a speed of 60 mph, but hits several road construction sites with detours and blocked streets along the way. Given that a. he's running late as usual, b. he hasn't driven in the Jersey City area for several decades, and c. that he's traveling at rush hour, how late will he be to meet his friends? (10 pts.)

Some pictures from Oaxaca. All taken within the past few days.

Go here for eight more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28582775@N05/

Never did this Flikr thing before. Hope it works.

Edit: Thanks Traveller! So much easier than the code I was trying. Hopefully I can remember this.

To: All countries serious about winning the World Cup in 2010

I mean, our *very own* Davinci!

Most of you will have missed this, since it only showed up in comments on my recent Diplomacy diary:

Davinci: "I have a wedding in three weeks and a honeymoon after."

So congratulations (&/or condolences) to the lucky (&/or unlucky) bridegroom (&/or bride).

Huzzah!

And - personal aside to Davinci - here's hoping that this paragon (&/or virago) you're marrying won't mind too much if you go on checking in, from time to time, with the guys at the Forvm.

Not that I'd blame her if she did.

Rand Simberg is a prolific blogger on space policy issues, foreign affairs and sundry matters. With respect to US foreign policy he and I come close to being complete and total polar opposites and yet he has recently written a fair and balanced essay published in Popular Mechanics concerning the respective space policy positions of our Presidential candidates and I concur with this conclusion offered by the linked article:

I have a final interview in San Fran on Monday and I figured, why not make it a weekend since they're flying me out there? So I'll be spending the weekend in San Francisco, a city I've never been to before and where I'm about 80% likely to live as of midsummer. A few questions for the community:

-What should I make a point of seeing this weekend?

-What neighborhoods should I look at, if anyone has any suggestions? I'm thinking Berkeley or West Oakland now for reasonable rent with BART access.