Via David Strom’s blog, I found this photo essay of labs at night. One of my favorite moments is walking into a dark lab, or closing up at the end of a long night… When I switch off the room’s lights and turn-around to close and lock the door, the shining LEDs of every color, flashing as packets flow, sometimes temporarily blinding me (Juniper’s blue LEDs on M-series anyone?), are always beautiful enough to surprise me and make me feel like there is still some mystery and magic in the technology I work with.
Archive for July, 2008
Labs at Night Photo-essay by Seed Magazine
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Establishing Ecological Baselines With Paleoecology
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Today I’m in Chattanooga, TN, at the Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting, where my wife Emily Coffey is giving a talk on her research in establishing ecological baselines using paleoecological analysis.
Excitingly, Nature News just published a brief article on her work! I want to point out, when the article says “Coffey and her collaborators trekked to the misty highlands of Santa Cruz”, that I’m one of those collaborators! The words trek and misty make it sound magical… which it is, of course. But let me tell you, it’s also terribly slow, painful, wet, and painful again. (As a result of my “trek” I’ve mentally categorized bracken as a “hell-fern”.)
Anyways, I’m proud of her work and happy to have been a small part of it.
Cool photo mash-up w/ old-school game graphics
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008I just came across some very cool mash-ups of old-school video game characters integrated into photographic images at Retro Gaming on real backgrounds, care-of the fubiz blog. For example:
I’d like prints of these. I could mix them into my home’s collection of framed travel and family photos…
