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2008-10-25 21:05 UTC
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| Finally had a good window seat on a clear day when the north atlantic windiness forced us to fly over the southern tip of Greenland. From far away, I saw what I thought were a bunch of fishing boats, but as we got closer, I could see they were icebergs (or the tips thereof), gleaming in the sun. |
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As for the landmass itself, I saw some low rocky hills or small mountains jutting up out of the ice and snow close to the ocean, fading into an endless flat white expanse of snow heading inland. No vegetation or any other sign of life. |
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royal observatory greenwich
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2008-10-25 20:59 UTC
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| I stopped at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and got some tourist curios. I had been there in 2004, too, but my coffee cup got broken (got a new one). This place is worth the trip if the weather's nice. Long walk up a hill to get to it. |
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cool lion pic
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2008-09-22 21:20 UTC
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While were were weathering out the storm, a work buddy was climbing Mt.
Kilimanjaro -- he came back with some really cool cell phone pix.
edit: not a cell phone pic at all, but rather a scaled down "real
camera" pic - probably taken with a good telephoto lens.
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pecos tx
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2008-08-06 20:31 UTC
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We headed out to Balmorhea (pronounced "Bal-Mo-Ray") state park in west Texas - it has a springfed swimming hole that's amazing - I'll try and do a post on it. Then, because we couldn't get a second night in the "hotel" at the park, we stayed in nearby Pecos, TX. |
| This is a town of about 10k population that's clearly been through many boom/bust cycles. It's entering a new boom cycle, because the price of oil is high enough to justify getting at the harder-to-reach oil reserses around there. We drove around a took a bunch of pictures, and then increased the color saturation them. |
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singapore
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2008-07-18 23:09 UTC
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| Singapore may be the only shopping-mall-state in existence today. I bet the mall-constitution, after you get past the lengthy section on leasing rates, is brief and rarely requires amending. |
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It had never occurred to me until now that Houston's Galleria area might one day secede from the city, from Texas, and the United States, but I'll be watching it with suspicion from now on. |
| This is, without a doubt, the cleanest and lowcrimerate-iest place I've ever been - at first, I was even afraid to jaywalk, but got over that quickly. |
But the city keeps its essence of chicken secret safe, and the elixir is nowhere to be found.
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