Movie or television subtitles are fine. It preserves the voice of the speaker while allowing me to understand the content. However, how do people read white text on a yellow background? In this case, white text on a yellow shirt. Contrast is important for readability. Or white on light blue. Or white on white. I would…
One of those Facebook poll things had a list of American Film Institute top 100 movies. Fortunately for me, Netflix Watch Instantly has several of the ones I wanted to see. Network was one of them. The scene where Beale, the news announcer breaks down in the rant, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not…
This clip from an NPR article, The Sad Beautiful Fact That We’re Going To Miss Almost Everything, resonated strongly with me. I feel like there are too many books to read in order to read them all. Now, everything gets dropped into our laps, and there are really only two responses if you want to…
Found outside Romano’s Macaroni Grill in Tallahassee, FL. My best guess is a Broad-Winged Hawk. I went outside and tried to get another better photo. Without glass obscuring my presence, he or she was very much aware of my presence. I could not get close enough to take a better photo.
I saw this truck on I-20. It surprised me the marketer who designed this did not think of paint as a toxic chemical. So perhaps it might not be good for it to cover the earth.
Mom started building a fish pond about a decade ago. It was her way of not thinking about work. (I just read.) Most of the fish are gone now. She is excited about the turtle who appeared a couple of weeks ago. While I was around we only found this frog and some tadpoles. This…
COVER THE EARTHOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F … in toxic chemicals?
Google Video told me I have to move my videos before they delete them on May 13, 2011. They suggested Youtube (since Google owns Youtube). Instead of a button to move them all to Youtube with the titles, descriptions, and view counts intact, they gave me a link to my video status page where I…
Yesterday was the 100th day of the year, so I figured I would figure out my progress with those pesky resolutions. Complete unfinished novel series. I finished the Harry Potter series. I am simultaneously working on the Sword of Truth and Ender series. The Shadow Rising was such an awful book I gave up on…