More BSE (mad cows)

I'm pretty angry about more MAD cows in the US. The FDA says don't worry it doesn't hurt anyone. The truth is that the cow was at a rendering plan where they were going to turn it into animal food and feed it back to our pets and more cows.

I don't want more cows to get BSE, I don't want more cats or dogs to get xSE and we don't need more humans around the prions either.

STOP ANIMAL CANIBALISM!! Don't feed Cows to Cows that's what causes BSE we will never be rid of it and the only way to minimize it to to feed Cows grass and grain and not meat.

PS> I thought they were herbivores anyway.

I walk through this room every day but never really noticed it until today. It's kind of surreal like a movie set. The white door at the end of the hall opens to my security card. 

Flower pictures.

About three cm from the butter cups.

I think I'm going to try and shoot some insects next. 

This is the center of a butter cup I shot last week from about 0.5 cm. 

Sunshine this afternoon on the garage door watching us do bike maintentance. 

Met Erik Buell today at DTH

I met Erik Buell last in front of the Buell plant in East Troy Wisconson (South of Milwaukee in August 2003.

Here is a picture of me with Erik if you don't know him already.
Erik Buell, 2003

I met him again today at downtown Harley. He was in LA yesterday and thought it was really cold up here. I guess it is relative to LA.

The day went great! We started off by getting on the express lanes south just as the white DOT pickup was closing the on ramp. We had the freeway, all five lanes of it, all to ourselves. It was sooo cool!

Erik was at Downtown Harley as promised and left the following message for all of you that missed it. (I spent the last four hours mixing it.)

Erik Buell Movie (~8Mb)

This isn't Rocket Science ...

I was hacking some designs and software yesterday at work and it occurred to me that this isn't Rocket Science, it's Accounting!

Accounting is wayyy more complex, intricate and dangerous than Rocket Science.

This is Sunshine again. He looks a bit predatory :) The background in this shot is taken from the center of the green reflection in the eyes, blown way up and then thinned about 70%. It's a pretty neat effect. 

This is a center image composed of 6 images which cropped down to about 18 million pixels. It's final size is bigger because I didn't crop the edges as much to make a square final image. We need to fix this fence this weekend. Should be a fun project. 

And this is the whole wide angle pan, the original is 8 images which cropped down to about 17.3 million pixels. 

Wide angle of the whole fence line. 

Today about noon (Wed 5-18) some older guy in a pickup truck going south on 8th fell asleep at the wheel and plowed over our fence and the wood shed that was behind it. Kerpow! He's ok but, we have a mess and a broken fence. 

This is a close up of the hole in the fence. It was dark out so this image is pushed a bit. 

The center of a daisy this afternoon. 

A pan of the inside of the new Ballard Library. Expansive, open, with a few study rooms, interesting electronic 'artwork' a bunch of books, and best of all lots of people. 

This is a composit of a little girl looking through the periscope that shows the grass growing on the roof of the Ballard Library. The picture on top is the image that she is seeing. It will take a few years to grow in so I'll post a comparison shot from time to time.