The cars driver calling for a ride to pick him up, said it was his moms car and that he had just borrowed it for a short time while his was in the shop.& 


 

Front angle. If Id been there a couple of miniutes sooner I would have had a chance to use that fire extinguisher I've been keeping on my bike for years. 


This is a closeup of the car fire mop up. 

A shot of the fire engine. 

Washington State Gas Tax Revolt!

More than double! That's right, the gas tax repeal pulled more than double the required signatures in less time than EVER!! for a grass roots initiative. AND THEY didn't even use paid signature gatherers like most other petitions to get on the ballot.

Of course the one thing I noticed when I was much younger, those with the power will let almost anything slide UNLESS it interferes with their money flow. This most certainly does interfere with the money and tax revenues and the state will not let it go. They will just put the tax on again and they will hound the perceived "ring leaders" of this tax repeal to the ends of the earth. It's cost the big players in Washington a TON of dough and they wont stand for it.

And that's a fact. Don't get between a power broker and his money source or expect to get crushed when you do. Kirby Wilbur and company are going to get slapped down hard by the big machine ... its already started with a judge practically outlawing freedom of speech if its political in nature. ( Good thing I'm so passive ;) )

If time travel were possible ...

I was doing some general thought last week on quantum mechanics and realized that if time travel were possible, not if it had ever been done or ever will be done, if it were merely possible then our entire current universe could be the result of temporal causation violations.

What we think of in stories and sci-fi as time travel causation violations, i.e. going back and killing your parents, is simple and trivial in the grand scheme of the universe. If reverse time travel is simply possible then at the quantum level, causation violations can happen instant to instant between particals, and literally everything. We would live in a soup of intertwined universes, constantly merging and wiping out futures, and pasts, micro-second to micro-second.

Over billions of years this continuous "fiz" of very small causation violations could add up to very significant deviations and improbable realities.

Not that I think that your reading this is an improbable reality ... but there it is. Perhaps even more improbable that I was able to write it.

Remember Carl Sagan's recipe on how to make an able pie? "Step one, first create a universe ..."

Caught this Sea Gull down at Ivars fish bar last week. This is feeding him a french fry. He was pretty active. Ive spread this pic accross my two computer screens at work. My 5 Mpixel camera provides a full pixel resolution for every pixel accross the two screens, the only limitation is to reduce it to 1024 vertical. 

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.