Month: August 2010
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The Mac is Back (P365, August 25-30)
The Mac returned from the shop today, and it seems to be working fine. I’ve been shooting all week while it was gone. August 25 – Cold and wet. August 26 – feeding time at the zoo. August 27 – Swan boats in the Boston Public Garden. I couldn’t pass this one up. August 28 […]
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A Few Notes for my Fellow Flatlanders
Maine. The Way Life Should Be. It’s a wonderful state, and many of us enjoy a few weekends there every year. In turn, they enjoy our tourist dollars. Flatlanders need to learn a few things, however. The York Tolls have two EZPass lanes, one on the far right and one on the left. If you […]
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Cold cat (P365: August 24)
I recently learned that Saimese cats are temperature sensitive. The dark areas on their faces, ears, feet, and tail are due to pigmentation reacting on the cooler areas of their bodies. When Chai first came to us she had a cold, and her face turned visibly lighter for a week or so. Fast forward to […]
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Back in the Big Time!
I was doing some blog housekeeping this afternoon, and I discovered that NfMH is once again the top Google search result for “notes on wasting time.” Go ahead, try it. I’m the top in my field at something! We’ve also hit the big time this week with comment SPAM. Just for the record, I’m happy […]
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Random musings
And soon the bright flames were wet black ashes and the crackling sound of the flames was quiet and there was only the great purring of the red hose truck pumping water and the bright searchlights of the fire engines making the trees and bushes much greener than they had been before. While the sentence […]
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MacBook FAIL (P365 – August 22)
This is actually a good thing. The MBP was in for service again today, as the previous attempt didn’t fix it. This time it failed the graphics processor test, with a bad NVIDIA chipset. (This is what we suspected the first time.) Now that we have a diagnosis it’s getting fixed for real, and it’s […]
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A week without photos (P365: August 16-21)
Photoblogging was light this week. In fact, it was nonexistent. We were out of town at the Big E in Springfield for the Mass Morgan Horse Show. Internet was limited to what I could access via the iPhone, although I did achieve one text-only post. The fairgrounds did have WiFi, but for $$$. I tried […]
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Less than five years
A hot August day. Beth and I bide our time letterboxing in a new corner of the world while Mrs. Mack505 is otherwise engaged. John Cleese guides us in his clipped, efficient Britishness, to a town so small that it has no numbered routes. Our endpoint lies in an old cemetary, pedantically named The Old […]
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August 14-15
August 14 – Along the New England Southern north of Concord, NH. August 15 – the American dream. Five bicycles, a canoe, and a Jeep.
Notes from Mosquito Hill 