Yesterday’s sunshine seems to have vanished (they say it’ll be back this afternoon), but we avoided the storms that passed by overnight. So I’m just gonna hang out here for a while, and play with the MacBook, which (I’m afraid to say) has been behaving itself lately. Unfortunately, it seems ridiculously difficult to just take a picture and get it into PhotoShop.
I’m sure I’m not doing it right, but it seems like I ought to just be able to save it directly from PhotoBooth w/o having to fart around with iPhoto (which kinda sucks). I guess I could just drag it from PhotoBooth to the desktop (or someplace else), but, like, why? Oh well, why ask why?
Hope y’all are have a very patriotic weekend.
As for me, I’m just gonna hang out by the pool and pretend I’m a Republican who’s gonna get a huge tax cut for my LearJet®.
Is that the swimming pool? Looks inviting.
We left Brooklyn on Friday and came out to Shelter Island with everyone else. Had we stayed in the city we would have had our pick of parking spaces, places to eat and uncrowded stores. Out here I’ve got to get the Sunday Times soon or they will have all sold out.
And, I’m finding the patriotism a bit difficult these days.
Nice hostas. :joe:
Love this time of year when the Le Tour de France is up and running. Phil Liggett is just about the best commentator, imho. (Well, I did :love: Joe Morgan announcing for my beloved Giants. )
From Huffpo:
ONONDAGA, N.Y. — Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike’s handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.
State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets.
Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Troopers say Contos would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.
Darwin bats last!
Yeah, I saw that in the paper this morning.
I tried not to laugh.
I did not succeed.
It goes nicely with the story about the “To Catch a Predator” guy getting caught cheating on his wife.
This is hosta heaven. Sometimes I feel we are being held hostage by hostas. It’s amazing how many there are, and how huge they are. It’s also amazing that everyone but me seems to know what they are.
OK, maybe that’s not all that amazing.
My favorite is sum and substance.
I never saw pre-historic sized Hostas til I went to Block Island, Rhode Island for a vacation. Considering it rained the whole time I was there, the Hostas were the only thing memorable.
(that and seeing Stephen Wright riding a bicycle)