Mecworks

Late one night this week…

Googleearth gallery
   > 2007 Tour de France route
      > Noticed amazing Carcassonne which the route passed by
         > Jump to Wikipedia to learn about Carcassonne
            > A thought leads to Labyrinth the book
               > Which makes me think of the (unrelated) Labyrinth movie
                  > Learn that the fancy manipulation of the ball is called Contact Juggling
                     > Search Youtube for Contact Juggling
                        > Amazing:

UPDATES posted at bottom..

So, I’m really upset about something that happened last night.

I’m taking a couple photography classes through UVSC‘s community education program which I have really enjoyed. Both classes are on lighting – one on natural light and the other on studio/artificial lighting. When I got home from work I wanted to do something fun and relaxing so I took my camera and my photography books out on the balcony to practice and a little. I was taking pictures of some of the plants I recently hung to attract more humming birds (which by the way, hasn’t worked from what I can tell).

I think I must have been out there for at least 45 minutes when I heard a loud knock at the door. To my surprise, there were two police officers standing there. One was a woman and the other, a male. Apparently one or more neighbors who had seen some flashes and possibly my camera (which was mounted on a tripod, pointed upwards toward the plants) thought I was taking pictures of kids in the condo pool and had called the police. I immediately realized how suspicious it all looked and feel very stupid for doing it in the first place.

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So, it was late last night and not really wanting to sleep, against my better judgement I began browsing some of the cool links I have collected over the past few weeks. One of my favorites has been a collection of free or otherwise freely available movies and documentaries at http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/