So, apparently this is really old, but my brother just shared this with me tonight. I’m pretty much speechless.
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
Taken on Holy Trinity Sunday (May 18, 2008) at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Chattanooga, TN
Yay! I found a program (DoubleCommand) for OS X that allows the user to, among other things, disable the caps lock key! It’s now been installed on my computer, so that I don’t accidentally activate the blasted thing. Now if we could just have it installed on all computers by default, or just remove it from the keyboard. The caps lock key is most certainly one of the most foul inventions to have been foisted upon humanity in the last few hundred years.
This is one of the first shots I’ve taken at night since I applied the Canon firmware hack to my camera. The exposure time was 64 seconds at f/3.2. I took the shot at approximately 11:30 p.m.
The TennBridge is one of my favorite spots to shoot. It’s a double-tracked vertical lift railroad bridge, and one of the longest of its type in the US. There is a lot of railroad traffic over the bridge … four separate trains crossed tonight while I was out there, and I was only out for a little over an hour.
If you look closely, just this side of the lift part of the span, you’ll see that one pier isn’t quite like the others … it’s older, white, and round. This is a remnant of the original bridge; the movable part of the span rotated on that pier.
OK, at long last the photo gallery is back. I’ve started the process of moving my stuff to Flickr, so I don’t have to try to integrate Gallery2 and WordPress any more … it was way too painful.
Tobacco Curing
Originally uploaded by esywlkr
I just found this image of burley tobacco curing in Haywood County. I know it’s not the same thing, but it reminds me of the wonderful smell of tobacco curing in the old gas-fired barns back home when I was growing up. Not the more modern bulk barns, but the ubiquitous tobacco barns that at least used to dot central North Carolina. Seems like every time I go back home there are less of them around … and it’s been years since I’ve smelled that wonderful smell.
How I miss that smell …
By far the story that amused me the most in today’s Times-Free Press is that State Rep. Joe McCord has admitted that he and other folks have been smoking in his state office in Nashville. Why is this so amusing to me? Well, because Mr. McCord voted for the 2006 bill that banned smoking in Tennessee government offices.
Oops.
Smoked out: McCord admits violating state law (linking to knoxnews.com because for some reason I can’t find the story on timesfreepress.com)
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