One of my favorite artists is Gary Baseman. He’s like an evil(er) Walt Disney, rendering cartoon characters doing things that cartoon characters generally don’t do. His happy, brightly-colored images look glossier-than-life, and cry out to be rendered in three dimensions. You may know him for the game “Cranium,” for which he did all of the …
Category Archives: Charlottesville
Daily Progress supports actual recounts.
Today’s Charlottesville Daily Progress editorializes in favor of actual recounts, rather than merely re-reading existing totals: A good tweak of Virginia’s new recount law would specify a recounting standard. The state should recount the ballots available to be rerun through machines. A too-vague standard in the new law instead allows counting totals from machines unless …
Flickr photos on Charlottesville Blogs?
On the Charlottesville blogs aggregator I include Flickr photos tagged with “Charlottesville”. I really like this, and enjoy the pictures that appear. But at least a couple of people have told me that they find it annoying, and would rather that the pictures didn’t show up in the feed. Do any C’ville blog readers have …
Stunned White-Throated Sparrow.
This little guy thumped up against against my sliding glass door this afternoon. He had some quality time in a warm, dark shoebox before I released him outside an hour or so later. He couldn’t fly, but could flutter well enough to escape me, so that assured his freedom. Ado Annie guarded him from a …
More ice storm pics.
The morning after the ice storm, I woke up just as the sun peeked over the mountains and into my bedroom window. The sight was so beautiful that I just had to pull on some clothes, grab my camera, and head outside. I shot dozens of pictures — the above is one of my favorites …
Power back.
Phew. That sucked. We lost power at 8:30am. It was back on by the time we got home, shortly before 11pm — I gather it was off most of the day. The websites that I’d managed to move over to my new host last night worked throughout, but several sites (including this one and cvilleblogs.com) …
Ice storm in progress.
The snow turned to sleet in late morning, and turned to freezing rain by early afternoon. Eight hours later, everything is covered in a thick transparent casing. Standing outside, a branch can be heard snapping every ten seconds. Once a minute, a huge crash can be heard as a limb or a tree comes crashing …
Widespread power outages.
Dominion Power’s map of outages shows that the darkness is creeping in. That’s thousands of people without power. Those dots are getting uncomfortably close to home.
Hatch battening.
Y’know that small snow/ice storm we had last week? And how it’s been in the 40s most days since? Our driveway is still ice-covered. What with it being steep, dirt, and long, we couldn’t even get the cars up yesterday. Amber’s ended up doing a 180 and sliding back down; I managed to park it …
Quality blogging.
Sally’s Fixpert is, hands-down, the best-looking blog in Charlottesville. I think that every time that I see it, so I figure it’s about time I called it up. Don’t miss her stories about the Crutchfield hacky sack club, the CSSification of Crutchfield Advisor or, my favorite, the time Pizza caught a deer.