the art of writing is discovering what you believe
Yesterday was performance day for 4th graders who are part of the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s annual art residency program. Several area schools work with dancers to design and choreograph a performance for production at McCaw Hall in Seattle.
This is a shot of the walkway outside the hall.
we noticed some slowdowns in our internet service (hey, if you really want to Knut the Polar Bear, you should be able to). Sure enough, our 1.5M/384 service was down to this.
Download Speed: 547 kbps (68.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 211 kbps (26.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Turns out a network card or some piece of switching gear at the CO had been set to the wrong speed. This is more like it:
Download Speed: 1318 kbps (164.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 625 kbps (78.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
The clincher was being able to show the service rep my bandwidth graphs.
Modem speeds of late.
University of Florida President Bernie Machen says he was “tremendously disappointed” with the school’s Faculty Senate vote to deny former Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree.
The Senate voted 38-28 Thursday against giving the honorary degree to Bush, who left office in January.
As largely conservative as the campus was when I was there (the Reagan years), this is an encouraging sign. Wonder how it will impact donations?
It’s not like he is a native son of Florida, anyway. He is an upper-east coast-educated Texan, just like the rest of them. Let him get his honorary degrees from his people.
I just got an email today: this camera will be on display at a show in Pittsburgh, from April through June.
This exhibition takes place in association with the Society for Contemporary Craft and will be held in their satellite gallery space. This space is a ‘walk-by’ gallery -visitors are unable to enter the gallery, but view the shallow space through floor-ceiling glass walls- passed on foot by hundreds of commuters daily on their way to catch the ‘T’ -Pittsburgh’s miniature version of a subway/light rail system.
If you can get there, it should be interesting — not for this camera — I’m sure there will be lots of great stuff to see.
hah!
I am currently gluing together a Holga/Polaroid hybrid — the filmback from a Polaroid 100 and the lens and shutter of a Holga, mounting on an foamcore box to get the focal length right. Maybe my time would be better spent taking pictures, too?
