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The vigilante. Or can we call him Green Arrow yet?
I feel like I’m being watched (WonderCon/Blacklist)
WonderCon banner from inside. Yeah, I finally got here. -K.
A Pac-Man table, spotted last weekend at the movies.
A Pac-Man table, spotted last weekend at the movies. #ThrowbackThursday #pacman #videogames
A look back at last year’s WonderCon for ThrowbackThursday. Watch this space for new photos this weekend!
A look back at last year’s #WonderCon for #ThrowbackThursday. Watch this space for new photos this weekend!
Eclipse Mosaic
Lunar #eclipse mosaic, starting around 11:00 and finishing around midnight Pacific time, just as totality set in. #moon #stargazing #notaphone
Four views of the moon over the course of tonight’s lunar eclipse, starting around 11pm and running until about midnight. I actually got some shots at the second stage without the phone line in the way, but I liked the way this looked.
Birdlamp
A nice non-technical explanation of how the Heartbleed security flaw works
A nice non-technical explanation of how the Heartbleed security flaw works. XKCD: Heartbleed Explanation
I liked this panorama out in the hills of Orange County enough to make it my blog header.
Though I liked this #panorama out in the hills of Orange County enough to make it my blog header. @Flickr
Waves striking the pier.
Photo taken at: Manhattan Beach Pier
Across the globe
Woodbridge Snow View 1
Woodbridge Snow View 1 on Flickr.
Today’s flashback from my archives for Flickr’s Twitter Tuesday theme: Lake.
Woodbridge Lake is an artificial lake in Irvine, California, surrounded by suburbs. On this occasion in 2008, the mountains in the distance were covered with snow – highly unusual since they’re all less than a mile high! Normally, the two highest peaks in this range, known collectively as Saddleback, get a light dusting once or twice each winter, but that year an unusual snowstorm covered the entire range.
Steel beams (now with less context!)
Steel beams (now with less context!)
Blades of grass along the side of the road.
Blades of grass along the side of the road.
Bridge
Bridge
Out of phase, or just different hemispheres?
Out of phase, or just different hemispheres?
We’re going to consider this area “off-limits.”
We’re going to consider this area “off-limits.”
Raindrops on the windshield
Abandoned Railroad
This week’s photo challenge is “abandoned” — kind of like this blog was for a few months. 😉
A few years back, I explored a disused spur of railroad tracks branching off of the main line into a light industrial area of town. In many places, the tracks had already been ripped out, leaving only gravel paths (and in some cases stepping stones, as seen below) between buildings that no longer needed freight access.
I found this floppy disk sitting on the track, and the combination of an obsolete data technology and what I thought of at the time as an obsolete transportation technology just struck me.
The funny thing is, trains in the form of light rail have made a resurgence in the last few years. Los Angeles’ Metro rail system, started in the 1990s, has expanded dramatically. I actually commuted myself along the Green Line at one point, and while normally that meant driving halfway there to pick up the end of the line, there were a few times I tried picking up a connecting (well, not quite connecting) train from Metrolink, at a station not far from this spot. In fact, the track in the first two photos has since been converted into a footpath connecting a shuttle stop to the commuter rail station.
TODO: Import to K2R, link forward and back to Obsolete (2009).
QUESTION: Import the original 2014 post (with suitable tag/link changes), or update the text and post it as new? Also connect to this Mastodon post (local archive copy)