http://www.kevland.com/blog Ten pounds of blog in a five-pound sack Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:59:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or rather, if you give a director a huge budget... Saw Ace the other night at Signature. It's advertised as a story about planes and war and WWI flying aces and stuff. About 20 minutes into the show I was thinking, "Either we came to the wrong theatre or ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/if-you-give-a-director-a-cookie/ Okay so plants is one thing.  This is even better!  (As usual, click to embiggen.) We noticed a herd of turkeys in a yard one street over sometime last winter.  Well, we noticed a herd of something, and upon investigation it turned out as turkeys.  So apparently someone around here keeps ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/i-can-haz-turkeys/ Hah!  I knew there was a use for all that comp time!  Another load of topsoil arrived today.  It wasn't as excellent as the first load; had some clay clods in it, and a bit more extraneous mulch, but at least it wasn't manufactured in a facility that also processes ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/and-now-with-plants/ ...where there never was a wall. [caption id="attachment_32" align="aligncenter" width="224" caption="The first course goes below grade, for stability. On about 4" of crushed rock. That's about 16 bags of it, if you buy it from Home Depot."]Look what you can do with 6000 pounds of stone, a ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/look-i-made-a-wall/ Apropos of this, look what just came up when I used the "look at street view" tool on Google maps! This sort of driving would make sense in Boston, but this scene is Providence. Aaaand, WP 2.6 ain't smart enough to put a <break> tag after the left-aligned ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/silly-google-ski-jumping-is-in-the-winter-olympics/ Well, as Jubal Early said, here I am. WP 2.6, I hope you can upload photos, since I seem to have lost the ability to do that recently.  Let's see if it works now.  At least the upgrade seems to have gone smoothly. http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/upgrade/ And now, a photo from the Chilean sojourn I mentioned in the last post. Somewhere I'm pretty sure I have a photo of the condor eating leftover meat outside the cafeteria, but I only found this one and one other. Maybe the rest will turn up someday. ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/i-have-proof-i-was-there-look-at-this-photo/ By which I mean, in the age when you did astronomy in the dark.  In response to a post at the Bad Astronomer's blog, I was reminded of some long-ago nights. I spent a month at Cerro Tololo one summer, and it was totally awesome! Mostly because I was 9, and ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/astronomy-in-the-dark-ages/ Ooh, two posts in one day! So we saw Carbon Leaf last night at Power Plant Live up in Bawlmer. Free show, woo-hoo! And we didn't even drink any of the über-expensive beer they expect you to. For the win! Great show, lots of fun. Right ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/07/5-strings-got-some/ Okay, let's try this Dr. Horrible banner thingy again: Yeah, so Dr. Horrible. Sweet! It ain't gonna be free much longer, so get it while the gettin's good. If it's too late already (and I'm pretty sure it is), you'll have to pay for it. May ... http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/07/happy-endings-arent-anyway/