Brian's Not Home

Brian's Not Home http://bclee.multiply.com/ You are reading Brian's not home page! Don't you wonder why? Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:33:51 -0000 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:34:59 -0000 Brian's Not Home http://images.bclee.multiply.com/logo http://bclee.multiply.com 100 100 There is no evidence of aliens or their garbage in the fossil record. Ideas with no http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/29/There_is_no_evidence_of_aliens_or_their_garbage_in_the_fossil_record. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:34:59 -0000 The Angriest Squirrel in the World It lives in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California. The squeaking sounds are not some broken machine, but the squirrel -- we heard if for minutes before we came to it, it was non-stop. (The tapping noises are the auto focus or something in the camera, and the commentary is by http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/11/The_Angriest_Squirrel_in_the_World Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:13:44 -0000 A Conference of Marmots For Dan. (I thought a had a photo album of Marmots, but either I'm losing my mind or it has vanished. Maybe that's not an either.) For more from this trip, see my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/sets/72157600654735180/">Utah July 2007 Trip</a> set on Flickr. When I'm done I might copy that over here as well, if Multiply is being cooperative that http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/28/A_Conference_of_Marmots Sun, 8 Jul 2007 03:06:02 -0000 A Day at the Beach (Part 2) The local sunbathers. (What the hell is that one on the right http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/10/A_Day_at_the_Beach_Part_2 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:39:02 -0000 A Day at the Beach We decided to go to to my favorite local "beach" today, Bean Hollow State Beach. Sand, swimming, babes in bikinis . . . well, there's really none of that. And remember to bring a jacket. (The coast around here probably isn't really what most people think of when they think of California http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/9/A_Day_at_the_Beach Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:31:05 -0000 As Requested I think it would take too long to explain this, so I'll just say someone phoned in a request and leave it at http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/8/As_Requested Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:09:22 -0000 Spiral Water http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/7/Spiral Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:56:24 -0000 Coffee: A Tragedy Yesterday morning <a href="http://amybroox.multiply.com/">Amy</a> got up pretty late.  Which means I got up really late.  And neither of us really had time to make coffee.  So I got out the instant coffee, because it's not actually possible for me to remember where I work without at least one cup of coffee. Sadly, we were out of teaspoons, so I grabbed a tablespoon.  This mistake came into clear focus about an hour later, when I was having one of those so-awake-I-can-feel/hear-my-heart-beating experiences, and I realized that I had put a tablespoon of instant coffee in my cup, not the teaspoon called for in the directions.  And it was a heaping tablespoon at that.  That's like what, 4-6 cups of coffee in one?  (And strangely I did not notice anything funny about the coffee at the time.) So, the tragedy: I had so much caffeine in my system that when I got to work I didn't want any real coffee, even though we have an infinite supply of free Peet's coffee at work. (And I had a terrible headache yes... http://bclee.multiply.com/journal/item/13/Coffee_A_Tragedy Sat, 2 Jun 2007 03:06:11 -0000 Driving Home This is the result of a geotagging experiment, I wanted to see how well <a href="http://www.houdah.com/houdahGeo/">HoudahGeo</a> would do with matching up pictures to the GPS log at highway speeds, if I got my camera and GPS in as good of sync as possible. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/525621678/">It does pretty well, actually.</a> And I decided that at long as I had the pictures I might as well make a movie from it. If you watch closely you'll see a picture of a mission -- in fact the mission that is the reason <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/110883371/">Mission Peak</a> is called Mission Peak. But that only happened because the camera came loose and started to http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/6/Driving_Home Sat, 2 Jun 2007 02:23:28 -0000 Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum In San Jose, California. It's actually a whole campus of faux-Egyptian/neo-classical buildings. And a museum and planetarium. They have some interesting items in their collection, but the museum itself is kind of a mishmash, with the organization being more by mythology than historical http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/27/Rosicrucian_Egyptian_Museum Mon, 14 May 2007 05:02:31 -0000 Google Earth vs. Reality Inspired by the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/googleearthgame/pool/">Google Earth Game</a> group on Flickr, and just because I wondered if I could find where I was when I took <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/474193597/">this picture</a> from an airplane: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/475120199/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/194/475120199_56ccaa1ef8.jpg" alt="Canyonlands: Google vs. Reality (sort of)" height="500" width="377"></a> There's something strange happening at the bottom of the Google Earth image, in part because of some strange fisheye like image mapping, and in part because all their image data is from above. http://bclee.multiply.com/journal/item/12/Google_Earth_vs._Reality Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:51:55 -0000 No no no I didn't really think American chocolate could get any worse, but I was wrong: <a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/23/2333201"> FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate</a> "The US Food and Drug Administration is considering redefining 'chocolate' to allow substitution of vegetable oil ($0.70/lb.) for cocoa butter ($2.30/lb.), and whey protein for dry whole milk." http://bclee.multiply.com/journal/item/11/No_no_no Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:31:18 -0000 Scanning I've been scanning a lot of old old film recently. This is one of my favorites: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/461070754/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/461070754_f06aad0eaa.jpg" alt="Amy and Wotan" height="353" width="500"></a> I have a great print of this, but the negative has deteriorated a lot in the 16 years since I took it, and the scanner's IR scratch and defect removal doesn't work on films with silver in them (like most B&W films). For more, see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/">my flickr page</a>, which is the reason I've neglected Multiply so badly in recent times. http://bclee.multiply.com/journal/item/10/Scanning Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:01:16 -0000 Scrub Jays I started putting corn cobs out to distract the squirrels from our feeder, and found that the squirrels never get a chance. The scrub jays pick them clean almost right away. http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/5/Scrub_Jays Sat, 3 Feb 2007 20:31:33 -0000 Panhandle-Plains Historical Society Museum We drove home (from California to Kansas) for Christmas. This only seems like a bad idea if you don't consider that plan B was flying into Denver. Anyway, when storm #2 showed up we headed south to try and get around the worst of it . . . and got as far as Amarillo Texas before they shut down all the roads ahead. So, we visited this museum in Canyon, just south of http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/26/Panhandle-Plains_Historical_Society_Museum Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:32:29 -0000 Argh. I was feeling bad about neglecting Multiply, and I've been slowly scanning a lot of old slides and photos, mostly of southwestern US rock art. So I thought I'd add some here. I spent about an hour picking the best of those, uploading them, adding descriptions, etc. Only when I added it, all the titles and descriptions vanished. And no matter what I did it would never post, it was stuck as a draft. Eventually I tried deleting it and reposting it, but that didn't work either. Argh. So for now at least I give up. I've posted all those same photos on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bclee/">my Flickr page</a>, so you can go check them out there instead. Stop by and leave a note if you do. http://bclee.multiply.com/journal/item/9/Argh. Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:02:20 -0000 List of unpopulated professions From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:More_Best_of_BJAODN"> Wikipedia:More Best of BJAODN </a>, a list of some of the best nonsense deleted from Wikipedia: List of unpopulated professions Astrolinguist Biolinguist Cryptoapologist Ecomortician Ethnochemical engineer Forensic paleontologist Geosurgeon Hydroepistemologist Lunar proctologist Marine astronomer Microethnologist Neurothespian Pediatric gerontologist Photobiologist Psychospectroscoper http://bclee.multiply.com/journal/item/8/List_of_unpopulated_professions Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:09:50 -0000 Snow on Mission Peak <a href="http:/www.broox.net/sequoia/">GSCam</a> brings you a day of snow on Mission Peak. Our web cam <a href="http:/www.broox.net/sequoia/">(Giant Sequoia Cam -- broox.net/sequoia)</a> takes a picture once every 5 minutes. This is from March 11, 2006, the second day in a row Mission Peak had snow. Considering it's only about 2500 ft tall, and in Fremont, CA, near the coast, snow is a pretty unusual thing on Mission Peak. So should it worry me that in March we had several weeks of regular snow at the higher elevations around here, and then in July over a week of record high temperatures? It's almost like California is getting seasons. Apologies for the occasional jumps in perspective, GSCam was in a window accessible to cats this http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/3/Snow_on_Mission_Peak Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:25:31 -0000 Enkidu <a href="http:/www.broox.net/sequoia/">GSCam</a> brings you a day in the live of our cat Enkidu. Our web cam <a href="http:/www.broox.net/sequoia/">(Giant Sequoia Cam -- broox.net/sequoia)</a> takes a picture once every 5 minutes. So every frame is 5 minutes of couch time. What a http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/2/Enkidu Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:10:02 -0000 Reef Tank <a href="http:/www.broox.net/sequoia/">GSCam</a> brings you a day in the live of our reef tank. June 20, 2006 to be exact. Our web cam <a href="http:/www.broox.net/sequoia/">(Giant Sequoia Cam -- broox.net/sequoia)</a> takes a picture once every 5 minutes. The tank is a bowfront, it's basically 1/4 of a cylinder, so it fits in a corner, and you get to see reflections of everything in the room. Certain Hawaiians known to be in my contact list might recognize the one native Hawaiian fish in the http://bclee.multiply.com/video/item/1/Reef_Tank Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:47:20 -0000 Yosemite Amy's brother Brian and his wife Jill are in town, so we took them to http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/23/Yosemite Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:09:46 -0000 Nevada City Various pictures from in and around Nevada City, http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/21/Nevada_City Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:19:44 -0000 Little Gray Books Listen and http://bclee.multiply.com/links/item/12/Little_Gray_Books Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:45:18 -0000 The President's Weekly Radio Address Well, sort http://bclee.multiply.com/links/item/11/The_Presidents_Weekly_Radio_Address Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:43:56 -0000 Wallpaper Inspired by <a href="http://danbirchall.multiply.com">Dan</a>, I decided to dump a bunch of images large enough for wallpaper/desktop use here. I'll start with some 1920x1200 (or slightly larger) images, but maybe I'll add some older 1600x1200 stuff as I go along. Those are the two monitor sizes I've had recently, if you want anything larger, buy me a new monitor! I hear the new 30" Dell is nice, but if you get me the 30" Apple one instead I won't complain. :) http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/17/Wallpaper Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:27:28 -0000 RLM's artwork. <a href="http://rlm66101.multiply.com/">RLM</a>'s artwork. I saw that <a href="http://dan337.multiply.com/">Dan</a> currently has a portrait <a href="http://rlm66101.multiply.com/">Rebecca</a> did of him as his icon, so I'll post some of her artwork (ok, just one for now but I have more photos) in the hopes of getting her (or Dan) to post more. http://bclee.multiply.com/photos/album/16/RLMs_artwork. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:21:06 -0000