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I tried to use the system to report the pavement at Granger and Packard. I got a "connection reset" error.
Hmph.
Commented Mar 23, 2011 on City of Ann Arbor Citizen Request System: tracking trouble at Vacuum
City of Ann Arbor Citizen Request System: tracking trouble
It's hard to have great weird ideas when you're busy closing trouble tickets. Use the City of Ann Arbor's Citizen Request System (A2CSR) to bring a matter of concern to the attention of the city. Requests currently being tracked include the following; there is no complete list of citizen-initia...
Nice chart of radiation exposure from various sources:
http://xkcd.com/radiation/ with framing text http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
Commented Mar 19, 2011 on Fukushima fallout plume animation at Vacuum
Fukushima fallout plume animation
Click to animate this plume of fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, as produced by ZAMG (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Viennese Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna Austria). Via the Harvard Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal. Note that th...
The ways in which painters can manipulate light was brought vividly home to me a few years ago in the National Gallery in Washington, DC. I walked into a gallery at one end, and at the other end was hung Monet's painting "Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son" (http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=61379). I'd seen it in reproduction, but was not prepared for the impact of the real thing. The sky and the outlines of her dress just glowed. It was an amazing manipulation of my visual system by a master.
Commented Dec 16, 2010 on What Landscape Painting Can Teach Photographers at The Online Photographer
What Landscape Painting Can Teach Photographers
By Geoff Wittig How do you convey the beauty of the natural world, both subtle and grand, using nothing more than microscopic dots of colored pigment or grains of silver on a sheet of paper? This is the fundamental problem of landscape photography. With more than 15 years of study and a bunch of...
Google Earth's Historical Imagery feature gives the date on which the most recent aerial photograph of this area was taken as March 30, 2005. The oldest in Google Earth is from April 11, 1998.
Commented Mar 12, 2010 on Apropos of Nothing at The Online Photographer
Apropos of Nothing
I was originally going to include in the previous post a few paragraphs about Studebaker, a maker of carriages and wagons founded in the 1850s that eventually made a successful transition to making automobiles (the company lasted more than a century, until 1966). Although I let one reference in ...
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