Posted in My Personal Life, Nature on August 26, 2008 | No Comments »
During the first week of August I finally had a week off so I visited Lake Santeetlah near Robbinsville, NC with Jane and her family! Here are some of my favorite pictures from the vacation.
Moon setting over the lake
The view during the morning
Garic tears up the water
Jane rolled the jetski and broke it… so when [...]
Posted in City of Charlotte, fail on August 24, 2008 | No Comments »
After surfing failblog.org far too much, I couldn’t help but notice a local fail in front of the UNC Charlotte entrance. A limo hummer was trying to turn on Suther Rd. and was far too large to make the turn. It took the guy about 4 minutes to make the turn and we all had [...]
Posted in Friends, My Personal Life, Nature on August 24, 2008 | No Comments »
After a trip back to my house in Charlotte to move all my stuff out of my summer residence at PARI, I headed to Kernersville to hitch a ride with Jane’s family out to Lake Santeetlah where I would spend the next week. Jane was still obligated to be at her summer camp (where she [...]
Posted in Life at PARI, My Personal Life on August 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Now that my summers at PARI are over, it helps to look back at all the fun times I’ve had there. Living in complete and total isolation was fun for a while, but now I’m ready to be less than 40 minutes from a grocery store that takes a debit card. What were my top [...]
Posted in Music, Photography on August 19, 2008 | No Comments »
This summer marked the triumphant return of the Williams family and me to FloydFest. After randomly seeing a poster on a shop store window in Asheville, NC which advertised “The Cat Empire” as one of the headliners of the music festival, we thought, “Let’s check it out.”
As it turned out, the FloydFest is only [...]
Posted in Nature, Photography on August 14, 2008 | No Comments »
As I finished out my 2 summer term at PARI, I had to test the HDR techniques I had refined during my time there. Here are the results,
The Smiley radio telescope from the side
The 1000 Ft. Tunnel
Clouds at Sunrise
Mountains in the Morning
Sunrise
Posted in Humor, Videos on August 14, 2008 | No Comments »
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Raleigh Is Greater than Charlotte… at Building Taxpayer Subsidized Infrastructure
Posted in Cause for Immediate Alarm, City of Charlotte, Commentary, Humor, Perceptions of Reality on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Raleigh native Kris Hixson was recently banned from selling this t-shirt design by his home city for its apparently offensive design,
From the Charlotte Observer article on the topic,
Convention center officials rejected his application to sell the
merchandise at the center’s Raleigh World Wide Expo, an exhibit to be
held inside the $221 million building as the [...]
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