tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35803662012-02-07T01:07:55.118-08:00The Machinery of NightAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comBlogger7941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-65528155678485565602012-02-03T00:57:00.000-08:002012-02-07T01:07:55.133-08:00Foto Friday: PinkerA rare sunrise here. This was taken one morning after work. Rather than going to bed like a sane person, I wandered all over the yard taking a picture every few seconds. "Wait! The light changed! Right? It's pinker now! Gotta snap another."Sunrise from home, Jan 2012Then when I was going through them, I found multiple identical frames, and had to decide which to keep. Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-5055130993548814242011-12-30T23:59:00.000-08:002011-12-31T00:13:54.850-08:00Foto Friday: PhreshPhreshest Foto Friday ever. I took this today:Paraglider at sunset, Maui, Dec 30 2011(Click to enlarge.)This was the last of five paragliders at sunset tonight. We've had two at a time, but never five. If you had been there, you would have heard me saying, "No! No! Get away from the antenna!" "Not the tree you fool!" "Too low, dammit!" "YOU'RE RUINING MY PICTURE!!" They Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-1346866484622559742011-12-10T23:40:00.000-08:002011-12-11T06:51:28.626-08:00Foto Friday: Through a Cloud DumblyI am totally cheating with this FF, because the photo was actually taken early Saturday. But I don't care.Lunar Eclipse of December 10, 2011I think it's not too bad, considering it was a hand-held shot, taken with the camera propped up vertically against a pillar. I love my camera, but it does have one huge nuisancey feature: there's a delay of a couple Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-91102926781314362112011-07-08T20:42:00.000-07:002011-07-10T15:48:23.114-07:00Foto Friday: Lanai LayersLovely layers lie over Lanai.Sunset over Lanai, June 2011Enjoy the neighbor's protea bushes and aerial, there at the bottom. Shoulda jumped in the car and drove down to the highway. Too lazy.There have been several delicious juicy blog controversies lately which I longed to comment on, but I have some vital TV-watching and video-game playing and OS-upgrading to do whileAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-53356279247095968562011-07-05T15:07:00.000-07:002011-07-05T15:07:00.426-07:00Niles Is DisappointOn a recent gift-giving occasion, Niles bought what he hoped would be a very timely gift. I collect foreign currency (I only do it for the pictures), and I've been assembling a collection of Former Dictators. I have Saddam and Niyazov so far. As far as I can tell, neither Castro or Chavez has been egomaniac enough to put his kisser on the currency -- nor has even the Dear Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-24489555295316329192011-07-01T21:42:00.000-07:002011-07-05T14:35:08.313-07:00Foto Friday: Sailors, Take Warning!Glorious sunrise on June 16th. I got up, looked out the window, and...WHOA! Grabbed the camera and wandered around the yard in my jammies, snapping away and blundering into the odd spider web. I hoped the neighbors didn't think I was trying to photograph them in their jammies. Then I brushed off the webs and climbed back into bed.Sunrise at home, June 2011Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-57711403815561963852011-06-24T20:54:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:59:33.619-07:00Foto Friday: The North Side of SunsetI will post a Foto Friday if it kills me!!Sunset over Kahului, Maui, May 2011There, not much. Sunset over the north end of the island, rather than the (usual) south end.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-27297726661133326432011-06-05T16:31:00.000-07:002011-06-05T16:42:49.534-07:00Meanwhile, in Hawaii...Snow!Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna KeaJune 5, 2011It snowed yesterday on Mauna Kea. Looks like they got an inch or two. This is from a CFHT webcam. Yesterday the summit road there was closed to the public due to hail, the message said, and there was reportedly hail on Haleakala on Friday. Mauna Kea gets snow pretty often (though it's rare in June), but hail??Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-77408055166733150352011-06-03T20:17:00.000-07:002011-06-05T16:23:41.733-07:00Foto Friday: Maalaea MorningHere's a rare morning shot. I took another picture a few minutes later, and about half the clouds had evaporated.Morning over Maalaea Bay, May 2011I'm usually in a hurry to get to bed in the morning, but if it looks as if a nice sunrise is in the offing, I'll keep checking the sky to see if anything interesting happens while I'm still up. Unfortunately I don't have aAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-67663028349558598862011-05-27T22:04:00.000-07:002011-05-28T05:17:38.430-07:00Foto Friday: Oh, Chute!On days I'm not working, I write in my diary on the deck at sunset. I keep my camera with me just in case anything interesting should happen. Yesterday I heard shouting, which is unusual in my neighborhood. Bleating, whinnying, mooing, barking, and cockadoodling -- those are not unusual. But shouting is. So I looked up to see this:Ouch! Do not land in the spiky Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-29750275327097033982011-05-20T17:49:00.000-07:002011-05-20T17:49:00.258-07:00Foto Friday: Try Modeling These in Mashed PotatoesSunset over the West Maui Mts May 2011DOO doo doo doo doooo! The mothership from Close Encounters is about to land.Again, sometimes a promising sunset just goes bust. This was such a one, except at the last minute the sun peeped through and gave a brooding look to the mountains. I especially like the different colors of dark in the clouds. Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-12649336231819894132011-05-06T17:16:00.000-07:002011-05-07T17:38:39.239-07:00Foto Friday: Tilting at the Windmills of Your MindI realize that this sunset looks a lot like the last one:Sunset from Home, May 2011But I noticed something interesting while taking it:Windmills on Puu Kukui, May 2011I hope that's visible. You might have to click to get the full picture, and even then it's not really obvious. (And you can't see it in the first image, because of the loss of Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-82560721289704195442011-04-29T22:07:00.000-07:002011-04-29T22:07:00.430-07:00Foto Friday: Gold in Them Thar HillsI've struck gold!Sunset from Home, April 2011I rarely take pictures from this angle, because it compels me to like, put on my shoes and go into the yard. But it's nice.Right now, from the deck the sun is inconveniently setting behind the large tree on the left, thus forcing an unwonted field trip.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-71267895522422005802011-04-22T22:18:00.000-07:002011-04-22T22:18:00.558-07:00Foto Friday: Guessing Game IIHere's another guessing game. Do you know what this is?No, it is not a sea anemone, nor the hideous looming mouth parts of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Here's another hint.Good guess! But it happens not to be Don King buried up to his neck in sand. No, it instead...Silverswords!Beware the Silversword Alliance!Haleakala silverswords like these are found Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-91261846518789899112011-04-15T15:54:00.000-07:002011-04-17T16:06:25.087-07:00Foto Friday: MesozoicThis is one time where I said, "I'm going to be energetic and go to the highway where there's not all these pesky trees." Got down there: only mushy gray clouds. So I waited, and waited, and almost gave up, and then...Sunset from Upcountry Maui, Mar 2011It looks like Lanai is erupting. Cool! Sometimes, looking at these pictures, I half expect a brontosaurus to poke its Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-55952111395163607972011-04-08T23:58:00.000-07:002011-04-10T00:59:48.483-07:00Foto Friday: Supermoon!Supermoon! from Maui Mar 19, 2011OMG! The full moon of March 19 was larger than any full moon since the last time this happened, in 1993. Sharp observers will note that the world failed to end THEN, too. I hate to refer you to Wikipedia, except that it does have a nice comparison between the Supermoon and an ordinary full moon, plus this exciting informationThe term Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-48913676268676152352011-04-01T18:57:00.000-07:002011-04-02T19:13:02.574-07:00Foto Friday: Holy Mackerel!In order to see the sunrise on Haleakala, you have to get up at oh-dark-thirty, gather your warm clothes (even though it's still 75 degrees outside), and drive for about an hour and a half (from Kihei, longer from the west side) up a twisting, turning road, dodging the occasional cow. And you have to pay ten bucks for the privilege. Most days, in my opinion, it isn't Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-68852652300714459842011-03-25T20:18:00.000-07:002011-04-17T16:07:07.514-07:00Foto Friday: Rems and Roentgens and Rads, Oh My!Cane Fire, Mar 2011When I started reading about Japan's nuclear problems, all the numbers were in sieverts. What the hell is a sievert? (My spell checker doesn't know either.) When I was learning this stuff, we had curies, roentgens, rems, and rads, and that was good enough for us. None of your fancy-schmancy European "sieverts".Anyhow, if you Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-19802526036137743922011-03-18T22:01:00.000-07:002011-04-17T16:07:37.283-07:00Foto Friday: It Made the Sky Look Red Like a Nuclear RaySunset from home, Mar 17 2011Sunset, in the general direction of Japan. Coincidence?I was going to write something about the nuclear hysteria gripping the news media, but this pretty much covers it. (Short version: When I was born we'd been nuking the hell out of the desert for more than a decade, and the radiation only made me taller and Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-18058301285223574512011-03-11T21:43:00.000-08:002011-04-17T16:08:11.138-07:00Foto Friday: Tsunami EditionI was very popular the night of the tsunami. Everybody I work with either called or turned up. I stopped work for about half an hour around the estimated tsunami time, and made everything safe, just in case we lost power. But when nothing happened I just went back to work.This tsunami wasn't as big a nothing as our last one. Apparently there was water up to a Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-19011592746762783832011-03-04T21:09:00.000-08:002011-04-17T16:10:05.866-07:00Foto Friday: Guessing GameCan you guess what this is?Click to experience the full horrorIs it one of Cthulhu's tentacles?The Beast with a Million Eyes?A section of diseased liver?Nope! Breakfast!And, for those who don't like strawberries, we have...The Sun doing its impersonation of the Horsehead Nebula.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-56182311019492781002011-02-25T23:28:00.000-08:002011-04-17T16:10:32.080-07:00Foto Friday: I Join the 21st CenturyO hai!I've been away for a while, due to various things. But I am back to show you the fruits of my new toy, a DIGITAL CAMERA! Yes! Always on the bleeding edge of technology, I now have one o' them newfangled digital cameras that all the kids are talking about. Mine is the Canon SX130, which came into my hot little hands yesterday afternoon:11:50am wake Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-83491679911031664582010-11-24T14:36:00.000-08:002010-11-24T16:20:39.056-08:00ThanksgropingNiles is here for Thanksgiving. His plane was delayed for an hour with mechanical problems. And then for another hour, and another, and...for a total of seven hours. Which meant he didn't get to Honolulu until after midnight last night, and had to stay overnight in a hotel there. (And, more importantly, got me up at the simply UNGODLY hour of 8:30am to go fetch his keister from Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-53951134576216054862010-10-29T16:31:00.000-07:002010-11-01T04:50:57.566-07:00Foto Friday: The Most Sinc--er--Scenic Pumpkin Patch in the WorldI do not think this counts as a "sincere" pumpkin patch, inasmuch as (I believe) the pumpkins did not grow as you see them, but were placed there. Those don't look like pumpkin leaves. However, you must admit that this is one of the more scenic pumpkin patches in the world.Kula Farms pumpkin patch, Oct 2009Here's another view. Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-7491483410466261692010-10-15T22:52:00.000-07:002010-10-16T17:03:59.560-07:00Foto Friday: A Moo with a ViewIf this picture looks a little funny, it's because it's a blow-up of a photo taken from a moving car.Cows on Haleakala, Jan. 2009This is a very nice view, what with the cows and all. The red hill behind them is actually an old cinder cone; sometimes they stand on it, and then it's really cool. That's the West Maui Mountains in the background, and behind them, Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-40898253486501428592010-09-24T22:09:00.000-07:002010-09-27T03:19:01.743-07:00Foto Friday: Mees Was HereHere's the Mees Solar Observatory playing "Kilroy was here".Mees Solar Observatory at sunrise Dec. 2008It looks kind of like a moon rising. That was one of those mornings where it certainly would have been worth it to get up at oh-dark-30, bundle up, and drive 90 minutes to the watch the sun rise on Haleakala. Unfortunately, it's hard to know in advance which mornings Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-9909208356069123702010-09-03T18:15:00.000-07:002010-09-06T06:30:01.628-07:00Foto Friday: KahoolaweI wish I had this in black and white, but all I have is this pesky color. (And, no, desaturating it isn't the same thing.)Kahoolawe from Maui, Oct 2009This was taken from somewhere near Ulupalakua, on the south side of Haleakala. The little speck of black in the ocean is Molokini.I took this because, well, I was there. I think it must have been taken with the 17mm lens. Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-1966438367745712212010-08-27T03:40:00.000-07:002010-08-30T04:02:07.242-07:00Foto Friday: Are You Looking at Me?Between civilization in Kula and Haleakala National Park lies the deadly cattle range. Cattle guards keep the cows out of the park, and out of Kula, but in between they are free to wander onto the highway. It's a special thrill, on a foggy night, to come out of a hairpin turn and see a cow standing serenely in the road. A colleague of mine once saw a sports Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-2262907267725740322010-08-24T06:21:00.000-07:002010-08-25T18:28:53.600-07:00Hunting Nazi Polar Bear on MauiTommy and I went out to the gun range again last week, and we took along his "Arctic Panther", which he said was for hunting polar bears.Sadly, polar bear have been hunted to extinction on Maui. Here's a picture of me, showing our target, sort of:The cardboard things are our pistol targets. The rifle target is shown by the lighted circle, to the right of the Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-41668544067194258522010-06-18T23:00:00.000-07:002010-06-21T04:12:58.071-07:00Foto Friday: Tsssssss!I keep meaning to put up a nice, multi-image post, but again I got lazy, so you get a drab sunset.Sunset from home, Oct 2009Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-18789781050066231192010-06-12T22:52:00.000-07:002010-06-13T02:51:46.204-07:00Bonus Fotos: Bitter Clinger Edition!...or, Tommy takes his life into his handsMy pal Tommy G, a brave man, took me down to the rifle range at Ukumehame(*) today, and we had a blast. Plus, fun.Tommy brought his camera as well as his guns. Here, for the first time on the interwebz, is a picture of me. Drink me in! Yes, I wore my silly whale-watching hat (I was expecting stronger sunshine). TommyAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-36334517062714597492010-06-11T22:39:00.000-07:002010-06-13T01:45:51.809-07:00Foto Friday: Sunrise RainstormEnough of those boring sunsets! Here's a rare sunrise.Sunrise rainstorm over central Maui March 2010Usually if I'm up at sunrise I'm hurrying to get to bed. I think that was the case here, too, but I lingered a few minutes to photograph this. A day or two later I was up at sunrise but didn't need to hurry to bed. Such luxury.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-9913067512309608062010-05-21T19:30:00.000-07:002010-05-24T09:24:47.495-07:00Foto Friday: I'd Like to Be Under the SeaCheck out my new underwater camera! Pretty awesome, huh?At the Maui Ocean Center, March 2010Sadly, no. The fishies are all wet, and I am completely dry. This is one of the tanks at the Maui Ocean Center.This was shot with 400 speed film, which was insufficient for the most of the lighting conditions. Next time I must use 800 ASA. Or, I could get one oAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-78954411431864957942010-05-07T22:43:00.000-07:002010-05-09T06:55:17.195-07:00Foto Friday: Rainbow BeamsHo hum. Yet another beautiful rainbow. Note the supernumerary bows inside the main bow. I count two extra. There ought to be a secondary bow outside too, but I don't see it. Clicky to supersize.Rainbow from upcountry Maui, Nov 2009This entire roll was full of rainbows. How dull.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-58579151208293191412010-04-23T14:36:00.000-07:002010-04-26T04:05:48.611-07:00Foto Friday: Fresh FruitThis fruit stand is along the Kula Highway. I sometimes go there for fruits and veggies. This was taken on an unusually clear day. The flowers in the foreground are proteas.Kula Country Farms, Maui, Dec. 2009They grow some stuff there (strawberries now, pumpkins in the fall, corn too I think), but mostly they buy from local farmers. They have charming displays for Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-30125233739086235112010-04-10T17:55:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:02:30.011-07:00Foto Friday: CrateredHaleakala crater from the upper viewing area on "Red Hill".Haleakala Crater, Oct. 2009There's a long story associated with this picture, but in it I turn out to be a total bozo, so you're not going to hear it.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-81164817569493818312010-04-02T15:57:00.000-07:002010-04-03T16:13:09.475-07:00Foto Friday: Hung Out to DryHo hum. Just another laundry day.Laundry Day on Maui, Nov. 2009If I'd known this was going to come out so well, I would have taken more care in its composition. I'd have moved the camera lower, and made sure my car was covered up. Hell, I'd have gotten out the tripod. But I just hung the rugs out there and thought, dayam, that looks right purty. I'll just snap Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-80279671546968587022010-03-26T02:53:00.000-07:002010-03-29T16:06:31.954-07:00Foto Friday: Flame On!AEOS telescope at sunsetHaleakala, Maui, May 2009 This is an Air Force telescope. It doesn't usually explode like that. Here's the official site, or you can see the slightly more informative -- but extremely funky -- page the Federation of American Scientists has on AEOS. Not only is that page direct to you from 1997, but it has a Star Trek emblem on it.I've always been aAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-50715017991205041182010-03-19T16:19:00.000-07:002010-03-21T04:32:57.565-07:00Foto Friday: Vanishing PointHmmph. I make this image extra big, and Blogger shrinks it. Click for bigger.West Maui Mtns from N. Kihei Rd.Mar 2009It's unusual for the tops of the mountains to be free of cloud so late in the afternoon.The ocean's just off the frame to the left here, Kealia Ponds wildlife refuge on the other side of the road. The thing that looks like a lighthouse in the distanceAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-11437985702915653592010-03-12T22:53:00.000-08:002010-03-13T03:04:27.869-08:00Foto Friday: Fire on HighThe view from 1800 ft.Sunset from Pukalani, MauiFeb 2009Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-59504253765572869752010-03-05T22:29:00.000-08:002010-03-08T06:23:35.162-08:00Foto Friday: Beach Blanket BingoOK, they're probably not playing bingo:Waipuilani Park, Kihei, April 2009This is another in our continuing series, What Are They Selling? -- i.e., this looks like an ad for something. For what?In this case, the only possible answer is: beer.Click to enlarge. I made this one extra big.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-6435701241951440592010-02-27T10:13:00.000-08:002010-04-26T04:08:31.335-07:00Sleepblogging the ApocalypseApocalypse scheduled for just after 2100 Zulu, but I have to go to bed now. I've set the alarm to wake me so I can watch it. There may be photos (er, much later). Updates as they happen.22:05Z: ITEOTWAWKI, and I'm out of film. Fortunately, TEOTWAWKI has been delayed long enough for me to slip in another roll. And delayed long enough for me to get some "before" Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-19438999262564503462010-02-21T00:52:00.000-08:002010-02-23T14:40:25.061-08:00Où sont les bananes d'antan?Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.-- Groucho MarxAnd an artist flies like a thief in the night.This is rich. Does anyone remember the long ago, heady days of 2007, when we were menaced by the threat of giant bananas over Texas? A giant banana, made from wood and paper, was supposed to be launched by a Argentinian artist César Saëz from Mexico, withAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-71477585299070498442010-02-19T22:16:00.000-08:002010-02-22T04:31:25.674-08:00Foto Friday: Bent BushSunset from North Kihei, MauiSep 2008This picture could be from an ad. What would it be selling?Religion?Life insurance?A prescription drug for an embarrassing condition?The Greatest Romantic Melodies of ALL TIME!Feminine hygiene products?Hawaii??YOU make the call.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-8708102626547699932010-02-12T03:15:00.000-08:002010-02-14T05:13:10.949-08:00Foto Friday: No Snow in 5-0Today's FF comes to you courtesy of Tim Blair, who links to a story suggesting that there will be snow on the ground by the end of the week in all fifty states.Tim's commenter Bruce asks, "Is there snow in Hawaii this time of year?"Why, yes!Mauna Kea from Haleakala, Jan 2009Here's a close-up:Snow on Mauna Kea, Jan 2009Click for a bigger picture. The lumpy white stuff Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-22624590463814613862010-01-15T22:29:00.000-08:002010-01-16T02:41:35.323-08:00Foto Friday: Sugar DaddyPuunene Sugar Mill, Jan 2009This is the sugar mill in central Maui, a stone's throw from Wal-Mart. It might be the last mill on Maui; I'm not sure. I do know that the sugar on Maui is now the last in the state, as of October 31. (Link to cached copy of Honolulu Advertiser article, since I couldn't get the paper's site to cough up the article.)This mill is beautiful. I Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-27721188850472456322010-01-08T17:35:00.000-08:002010-01-16T02:41:00.227-08:00Foto Friday: Walking on WaterPaddleboarder at sunset, Feb 2009This is at Mai Poina Oe Iau Beach in Kihei. Fabulous photo op here, but I only got a few pictures. For the uninitiated, what you do here is you stand on your surfboard, and paddle around. I'm not sure that any actual surf is involved. I think it's supposed to be for the less physically agile.These were agile-looking teenaged girls.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-37155925244752950302010-01-01T14:55:00.000-08:002010-01-05T03:04:34.818-08:00Foto Friday: Missing the BoatNiles calls this "impressionistic". I call it blurry. Shoulda used the telephoto lens.Note the dog standing wistfully on the shore as the boat sails away.Near Waipuilani Park, MauiJan 2009No, this is not very late. That's just your imagination.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-57161131917212041352009-12-25T16:32:00.000-08:002009-12-27T04:47:47.171-08:00Foto Friday: April ShowersFor Christmas you ought to get a beautiful Christmas-themed photo. But I don't have one. So here's a rainbow from April:Rainbows over Pukalani, MauiApril 2009This was taken with my 17mm lens, which I bought in March expressly for capturing full, beautiful rainbows such as this. Since then, such rainbows have been scarce. Mostly they appear over the highway as I'm Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-81081915988842911902009-12-17T21:56:00.000-08:002009-12-17T22:45:24.137-08:00No Girls AllowedThis crap again:The stereotype of computer scientists as geeks who memorize Star Trek lines and never leave the lab may be driving women away from the field, a new study suggests.I suggest that the sort of women who are likely to be completely turned off by that aren't the sort of women who are likely to take up computers as a career anyway.At our weekly staff meetings there's Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-52005233374988004062009-12-11T22:56:00.000-08:002009-12-15T03:27:22.848-08:00Foto Friday: Lickity-SplitBoats on Sugar Beach, North Kihei Feb 2009And that's how this week's FF was posted, lickity-split! (No, of course it is terribly late.)(By the way, Mr. Boat Owner, the Google consensus is that the spelling is lickety-split.)(You might need to click the picture to enlarge it and find out what all this lickity-split business is about.)The lateness of the FF (as if any of Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-61587159586013807552009-11-27T22:52:00.000-08:002009-11-29T23:12:39.038-08:00Foto Friday: W-W-W-WIPEOUT!Since last week's FF was AWOL, today's FF will be in fabulous QuadroVision!These pictures were taken at Ho'okipa Beach Park in May of this year. They're hand-held shots using a 70-200mm zoom at 200mm, so they're not the sharpest pictures in the world. However, I am now convinced I need a longer lens, so I may capture the stark terror of man meeting ocean at high Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-6244905536423445072009-11-13T22:04:00.000-08:002009-11-14T21:24:00.235-08:00Foto Friday: Krakatoa, West of KiheiRun! The volcanos are revolting! Oh, wait, that joke doesn't work.Sunset from Kihei, Maui, Feb 2009Fortunately, neither do the volcanos. According to the USGS, the last time that end of Maui erupted was 385,000 years ago. (As opposed to 400 years for Haleakala.) I'm sure it's just lulling us into a false sense of security. You can't trust volcanos.This Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-20174601265987887772009-11-06T22:28:00.000-08:002009-11-09T10:40:11.422-08:00Foto Friday: Red Sky at Eve, Astronomers GrieveDon't think there was much astronomy done that night. Nice sun pillar and crepuscular rays, though.Sunset on Haleakala, May 2009You can just see the peaks of the West Maui Mountains rising above the clouds. That's the same sunset as this one, by the way.You might like to see this APOD picture taken (by someone else, on another night) from the same Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-72272223258025729692009-10-30T22:50:00.000-07:002009-11-03T02:00:41.182-08:00Foto Friday: Sea StripesBeach Stripes North Kihei, Maui May 2009I always write these danged things late at night when I'm very tired and it's all I can do to churn out a photo.So here's a rare morning view of Mai Poina Oe Iau beach in Kihei. I always say that I could take better photos if my knees would work (these stripes would look much cooler from a lower angle).Sorry, that's all you get.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-9264413884351445342009-10-23T22:00:00.000-07:002009-11-01T10:55:32.635-08:00Foto Friday: An Embarrassment of RichesOne of the reasons that FF has been late/AWOL recently is that I now have 25 rolls of film developed and printed this year (and another half dozen sitting on the shelf, wating to be sent off). Another couple rolls and I'll have exceeded my Best. Year. Ever. (as measured in photographs taken), 1995.So it's gotten a little tedious to pore through all the Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-55819001146092058132009-10-09T21:50:00.000-07:002009-10-11T03:27:54.009-07:00Foto Friday: Cloud CapHave you ever seen a cloudcap like this, or this? (Both Mt. Rainier there.) Ever wonder what they might look like from the mountain top?Like this:Beneath Haleakala's Cloud Cap March 2009My fair companion Tommy G was working with me that day. I don't remember what the sky was like when we arrived at the summit. We went in for a bit, came outside and...holy cow! Thin Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-91413380839861121292009-10-03T19:47:00.000-07:002009-10-07T02:25:19.977-07:00Fair to Middlin'I am, by nature, a kind of a stick-in-the-mud. I want to go places and do things, but when the time comes to do them, I think it's just too much trouble and expense. Why should I change my comfortable routine just to go on an exciting vacation, huh? I wanna stay home.This is where Niles always has to step in and insist, and I whine about it right up until the time we get back Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-73092132435302581862009-10-02T20:54:00.000-07:002009-10-03T21:25:46.097-07:00Foto Friday: PiningNorfolk (or possibly Cook) pines from the Haleakala Hwy.Maui Pines, March 2009I think these are on the Haleakala Ranch. Kahului Bay is in the background. (Says here those are Cook pines. Another pic of them at the link.)Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-16415959731332195492009-09-18T18:12:00.000-07:002009-09-22T06:24:17.479-07:00Foto Friday: Hair-raisingTripping through the photo archives for something neat, I came across this, and my hair stood on end (click on the image for maximum hair height):Sunset on Haleakala, May, 2009Then again, perhaps it was only static electricity.P.S. Yes, I'm cheating on my Fridays again.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-25237535455847906922009-09-14T19:35:00.000-07:002009-09-14T20:00:16.784-07:00Threat Condition: ChocolateThis just in: Research company Mindlab International has issued a press release (printed in its entirety by lazy media outlets all over the UK), announcing its findings about "biscuit" injuries. Apparently fully 50% of Britons are such klutzes that they can't have a nice cuppa and a sitdown without wounding themselves:More than half of all Britons have been injured by Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-8773665950931146372009-09-11T07:21:00.000-07:002009-09-11T07:36:19.784-07:00Foto Friday: On Liberty IslandLiberty Island, 1975A somewhat better picture taken at the same time is here.Lileks has a post, with a video at the bottom. Click on the link for the larger version, if your bandwidth permits.InstaUpdate: I think Lileks's server has buckled under the load. Already. Check back later. It's important.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-67557304542525849222009-09-04T18:10:00.000-07:002009-09-08T06:28:47.280-07:00Foto Friday: April Fool!Ha ha! You thought there wasn't going to be a foto today, didn't you? You probably thought it was flippin' Tuesday already, the 8th, and Friday was daaays ago. Shows how much you know.No, it doesn't matter that it's September, this was taken on April 1st this year:Sunset from North Kihei, April 1, 2009I remember this sunset. I had loaded up the camera with cheap -- Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-28283086817007820822009-08-21T19:12:00.000-07:002009-08-22T07:19:34.530-07:00Foto Friday: Morning ViewMorning View, July 2009Here's the view on a morning where the mountains are free of cloud. This is somewhat rare.I am expecting something like 11 rolls of film back in a few days, and there will be some non-View pictures in there. Soon I will be done unpacking (yes, still at it) and I can get out and take more exciting pictures. I used to go to the beach a couple timesAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-61985732006673109452009-08-14T17:38:00.000-07:002009-08-15T06:02:29.343-07:00Foto Friday: Sedentary SunsetI, like, had to lean forward in my chair to get this sunset. So exhausting.Sunset from upcountry Maui, July, 2009Tropical Whatsis Felicia turned out to be a big ball of nothin'. The wind did take a heavy toll on the avocados, but none were heaved through my windows, as I feared they'd be.(This picture was taken weeks ago, and so has nothing to do with Felicia. I'm Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-75617100104846472392009-08-07T20:46:00.000-07:002009-08-09T17:15:03.952-07:00Foto Friday: Fat FruitAvocados, Maui, July 2009Today, fatty balls of nature's goodness. Tomorrow (well, Tuesday) deadly organic projectiles from HELL! We're expecting a tropical storm, and the avocados have me surrounded.(On the other hand, if the power goes out and supplies can't get through and I run out of food, at least I'll be up to my ankles in guacamole!)Long-time residents I've talked Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-80715083363424948892009-08-02T05:00:00.001-07:002009-08-04T07:00:23.720-07:00Time CapsuleI'm supposed to be unpacking.I am unpacking.Specifically, I just unpacked a picture frame. My paternal grandfather made this frame out of walnut. It's a very fancy one, which swivels between two pillars. Now that I think of it, I can't imagine why you'd want it to do that, but that's how he made it.It was wrapped in a small plastic garbage bag, then in newspaper -- a lot of Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-86668456529606977582009-07-31T22:06:00.000-07:002009-08-01T04:47:45.208-07:00Foto Friday: More View for YouWhat's that I hear you say? "Let's see more of that great view, Angie!" Why, glad to oblige!Sunset over Maalaea Bay, July, 2009The island of Lanai is in the background. I had to go out into the road to get that one. I have a more spectacular sunset that I didn't have to get out of the chair to capture. I'll post that in a week or two.When I was looking for a Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-60873640555784726042009-07-24T06:40:00.000-07:002009-07-24T16:16:55.640-07:00Foto Friday: A Room with a ViewDoo doo doo, lookin' out my back door...The View, July 2009UPDATE: Oh, great. No sooner do I post my new view, than I wake up to find it gone! Someone has stolen my view!And now a helicopter is buzzing the neighbors' house. Are the police on the case, or are view thieves using helicopters now?(Actually, we're just having some fog this morning. Worst since I've Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-29709704390864830052009-07-19T04:17:00.000-07:002009-07-19T04:27:33.612-07:00Weather ReportInstapundit has a round-up of weather reports from around the nation (says it's chilly in Knoxville). A friend visiting the Northeast says it's cold there. Meanwhile, in Houston, it's in the high 90s (as one of Glenn's correspondents notes). It was 104 at the end of June.Niles bought me a nice wireless weather station for the new home, but strangely enough, he doesn't want to Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-87593644238414118712009-07-06T06:07:00.000-07:002009-07-06T06:22:57.351-07:00A Lesson in GeographyInstapundit writes:And here’s a report from Sunnyvale, California: “For several hours, the sidewalks around the intersection at Stevens Creek and Winchester boulevards were clogged with crowds..."Except that the intersection of Stevens Creek and Winchester is in San Jose, not Sunnyvale. A Sunnyvale man is quoted at the top of the article, leading to Glenn's confusion.I post Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-41275943362772816562009-06-19T14:04:00.000-07:002009-06-19T14:23:30.441-07:00Movin' On UpMovin' on upto the East Sideto a dee-luxe apartmentin the sky-yyyThat'd be me. I am indeed moving up, to the East side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky -- so deluxe it's not an apartment but a house. For the first time in nineteen years, I will not have to share walls with another person. It's out in the country. It's cool and quiet. It's closer to work. And it's got a view youAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-2359507793458599122009-06-06T03:47:00.000-07:002009-06-06T04:27:17.082-07:00Celebrity Non-Sighting: Lindsay LohanThere were no celebrities sighted this week at the fashionable watering hole I frequent (the local Safeway). However, the young man who is my informant tells me that he was driving right behind Lindsay Lohan the other day.Me: Was she sober?Him: Don't know. She had on sunglasses.She was driving a rented Mustang, he said. Frankly, I couldn't pick Lohan out ofAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-29820881348654744212009-06-05T22:34:00.000-07:002009-06-06T03:47:20.419-07:00Foto Friday: Rainbow Road WarriorI got some 17mm rainbows still in the can(ister), but here's what we have today:Rainbow over Haleakala HwyPukalani, Maui, Sep. 2008And it's a double, too!You see that a lot here -- rainbows that you could almost reach out and touch. This one seemed to end just on the side of the road. We didn't have time to dig for gold.This was taken through the window of a Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-81830170479707462202009-05-22T16:57:00.000-07:002009-05-25T20:03:24.362-07:00Foto Friday: CloudsAnd now for a little something abstract:Sunset clouds May 2009This was taken with the 17mm lens, pretty much directly overhead. I would have liked to get the horizon -- or better yet, the mountains -- in the shot, but you take what you get. The Foto Fridays have been late because I'm usually too lazy to hook up the big monitor so I can edit the pictures for color. One of Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-58008576595457820502009-05-15T18:51:00.000-07:002009-05-19T07:16:12.335-07:00Foto Friday: MemorialVancouver Memorial Kihei, Maui, Nov. 2008Hmm, I suppose this should have gone next week, but I didn't think of it until it was too late. Oh well.This is a memorial to George Vancouver, who visited Maui in the years 1792-1794. Why this rather handmade memorial was put up in (I believe) 1960, I don't know. The roundish thing in the center is a beehive-shaped plinth made of Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-16270176821219336492009-05-08T22:33:00.000-07:002009-05-10T04:22:20.433-07:00Foto Friday: ShadowplaySunset from N. Kihei, Maui, Nov. 2008The only really interesting thing about this picture are the "feathers" at the bottom. That's the shadow of the spray as the little wave breaks against the beach. I was surprised I was able to capture that -- especially during what must have been a fairly long exposure, 1/30 second or so -- but I've seen it in a couple of images since,Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-62298342827884511152009-05-08T19:00:00.000-07:002009-05-09T04:58:17.030-07:00OMG! Celebrity Near-Sighting!NEWS FLASH: Chris Noth was seen in my local Safeway today. I didn't see him, but the teenage checker told me about it. The lady bagging the groceries told me Brad Pitt had been in once, but I don't know how long ago that was.If I had seen Noth, I bet I wouldn't have known him from Adam, but he'd be one of those people standing in the middle of ice cream aisle, Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-212567933334483702009-05-01T15:51:00.000-07:002009-05-19T06:58:46.308-07:00Foto Friday: Do You Canoe?I realized too late that this is a really lousy scan. I needed the film in a hurry so I took it too the drug store, where they scan it at about half the resolution they ought to. But I didn't have time to dig out a new picture.Canoes on Maui, Mar, 2009These canoes belong to the Maui Canoe Club. They look so dashing drawn up onto the beach that everytime I go by I Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-48109738816524876102009-04-24T22:01:00.000-07:002009-04-28T04:08:43.351-07:00Foto Friday: SandsetI so totally did not forget to post a foto this week; that was your imagination.Sunset at Mai Poina Oe Iau Beach, MauiNov, 2008That defocus in the clouds is your imagination, too.I love the colors reflected in the sand. I keep trying to repeat that, and failing. It looks good to my eye, but the camera doesn't capture it.This sunset is the same as this one.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-52377328051789305362009-04-18T17:41:00.000-07:002009-04-22T17:11:31.103-07:00Our Sophisticated European BrethrenThe fellows at David's Medienkritik don't post very often these days, more's the pity, so I only drop in every once in a while. That's why I'm over a month late in noticing this: Obama-Fingers! Yes, delicious frozen fried chicken fingers, "mit Curry Dip". Complete with American flag and the Golden Gate Bridge looming mysteriously in the background.It would beAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-2208088019962343982009-04-17T21:31:00.000-07:002009-04-18T03:57:03.493-07:00Foto Friday: Williams TowerWilliams Tower Houston, TXJan, 2009Again, not the best picture in the world, but it's different -- not a boring old spectacular sunset or rainbow.We went down to the Williams Tower on a weekend, when the parking's free. Unfortunately, a lot of other people had the same idea, and it was too crowded for good pictures. (That's a great skyscraper site in the link, by the Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-50597936993521650992009-04-10T18:38:00.000-07:002009-04-11T19:33:12.914-07:00Foto Friday: Wide AngleChoices, choices. Do I give you a crummy photo with my new lens? Or a good photo with my old lens? Or a good photo with my new lens, though those are kind of scarce?This is what I mean by "crummy":Sunset on Haleakala, looking East Mar. 2009It's crummy because there isn't anything spectacular in it. But my eye kept wandering back to it, so in it goes.This is actually Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-5180618169875953562009-04-03T18:18:00.000-07:002009-04-04T06:31:13.904-07:00Foto Friday: Mirror, MirrorThis was just some random couple who wandered in front of me. They threw something into the pond for their dog to fetch, and destroyed the perfect mirrored surface. So I shot them! (With the camera.) I figure if they're going to get in the way, they may as well improve the picture. I also have a picture of them cuddling. That'll learn 'em.Sunset, Waipuilani Beach Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-75652881928040651352009-04-01T12:50:00.000-07:002009-04-01T13:11:53.894-07:00Around the World in 80 TelescopesHere's a fun thing : a live, 24-hour webcast from 80 observatories around the world. Starts in Hawaii at 5am Eastern (2am Pacific, 09:00 UT) on April 3 (11pm HST on April 2).There's a schedule at the bottom of the page. It jumps around a lot geographically, not going strictly east to west. There are also two Antarctic telescopes involved. Keewwwl.I only heard Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-54860596510035989832009-03-27T17:55:00.000-07:002009-03-28T18:10:43.821-07:00Foto Friday: Sunset, on the Rocks, Twist of OrangeThis isn't a very good picture (it's under-exposed), but thanks to the scaling, you can't tell! Sunset at Mai Poina Oe Iau Beach, Maui Nov., 2008I love pictures where the sky reflects in the sand. I get this accidentally; every time I try to do it, it doesn't quite work out.On the far right, a headland on Maui; to the left of that, the island ofAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-30530401090195234392009-03-20T20:05:00.000-07:002009-03-25T08:18:15.170-07:00Foto Friday: Surf Nazis Must Die!One of WWII's more obscure skirmishes came when a group of specially-trained German windsurfing paratroopers were dropped by Japanese forces off the coast of Hawaii, as a prelude to the invasion of the islands.It didn't go well.Windsurfers at Ho'okipa, Maui July 4, 2008OK, no, that's just Ho'okipa on the Fourth of July. But they do look like they're attacking, Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-31487455043874281942009-03-19T15:32:00.000-07:002009-03-20T03:52:11.044-07:00The Decline of Civilization, Part MMXXXVIII: What's Happenin'?What's happenin', young barista, is that C.M. Kornbluth is looking more and more prescient with each passing year. This saddens me, because people who sagely cite Kornbluth tend to not know who the rubes are, if you get my drift. And no, I do not want a locococamochafrakkincino. Saaay, if I buy my beans at Costco, I won't have to Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-20645213155065160022009-03-16T15:14:00.000-07:002009-03-16T15:21:29.432-07:00Frostbite Falls, MauisotaI just want to announce that I got frostbite last night. I blame global warming.That is all.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-60514917261752505222009-03-13T22:45:00.000-07:002009-03-14T06:03:14.493-07:00Foto Friday: Double TroubleRainbows over Pukalani, Maui Dec. 2008Gorgeous, gorgeous rainbows that morning. Was very tired. Tried to get photos anyway. Tripped in the weeds and fell on my face. I could hear the rainbows laughing. By the time I'd gotten into position, they'd faded.As I drove away, they brightened again, and followed me halfway home, taunting me. Rainbows are evil.Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-72189752974804962772009-03-06T22:06:00.000-08:002009-03-07T04:16:26.482-08:00Foto Friday: Mt. RAY-nierWatch out! Mt. Rainier has a death ray and it's not afraid to use it!Mt. Rainier, Sep. 2005(The clouds, see, look kinda like a ray. No? You don't think so? Well what do you know about it, anyway?)The keen-eyed among will have noticed that this is not Maui! I thought you might like a break from all the tropical beauty. Also, this picture comes up in my screensaver Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-21431530243031675832009-02-28T15:31:00.000-08:002009-02-28T18:32:15.631-08:00PJF: RIPPhilip José Farmer has handed in his typewriter and gone to that big fantasy kingdom in the sky. He was 91, which was good innings, as the Brits say. If I'd known that, I'd have stopped hoping for him to continue with the Opar saga. According to Wikipedia, Opar was a frequently-visited ancient city in the Tarzan novels. Since my acquaintance of Tarzan is more through movies than the Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-55625445246225684552009-02-27T22:15:00.000-08:002009-02-28T03:32:37.770-08:00Foto Friday: Ahhhh...This is a restful view, don't you think?Sunset from Mai Poina Oe Iau BeachMaui, November, 2008In fact, it's so restful that I almost forgot to make a title for it.If you Google around for the name of that beach, you get variously Mai Poina Oe Iau or Mai Poina Oe Lau, because in a san-serif font capital I and and lower-case L look alike. (They're different when I type them inAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-78649287798428130532009-02-20T22:30:00.000-08:002009-02-21T04:23:30.591-08:00Foto Friday: Armed and DangerousPedestrian crossing Paia, Maui July, 2008No, I don't know. I suspect it's supposed to be paintball, but I can't be sure. This sign is outside the Paia Community Center. The day we were there, two cop cars were in the parking lot, not 30 feet away. So I'm assuming the police are aware of the situation (the sign was there the previous February, too). Across the Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-49510286244089166752009-02-13T22:17:00.000-08:002009-02-15T18:35:12.399-08:00Foto Friday: Power to the Polarizer!This week: a paen to the power of the polarizer. The first photo shows a dramatic sunrise.Sunrise on Haleakala, Polarization 1December 2008And now we rotate the polarizer 90 degrees, and get this:Sunrise on Haleakala, Polarization 2December 2008These two pictures were taken seconds apart. I like the first one much better, but I admit the second one more Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-74065999985921100082009-02-06T22:20:00.000-08:002009-02-08T15:27:39.180-08:00Foto Friday: On the RocksThis is not the bestest picture in the world, but it isn't a rainbow OR a sunset, so it's different.Rocks at Ho'okipa, Maui, July 4, 2008If you can believe Wikipedia, Ho'okipa is one of the premier windsurfing sites in the world. There were windsurfers that day, and I have pictures, which I'll get to eventually. They're really not that great. The waves weren't doing Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-66357431035161028592009-01-30T22:12:00.000-08:002009-02-10T10:22:34.857-08:00Foto Friday: The Romance of RadarWhat could equal the beauty of sunbeams illuminating a radar station?UPDATE: See update at bottom.Sunset with Radar, Haleakala Nov. 2008The thing on the right is a weather radar station, or so I'm told. What the thing on the left is, I don't know ("This End Up"?).I was going to give you a completely different sunset (if you can imagine), but it required a lot of Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-54237069057869701212009-01-23T21:57:00.000-08:002009-01-24T01:05:28.525-08:00Foto Friday: From Mees to You(Yes, the title sucks. I have a headache. So deal.)This is my favorite photo of the Mees:Mees Solar Observatory, Maui September 2008By that you may infer that I have other pictures of the Mees, and, yes, you'll be seeing them.I put a bunch of photos, including this one, on my computer at work today, and it looked fine. On my laptop screen it looks washed out, but IAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-27999546946132251472009-01-20T22:00:00.000-08:002009-01-20T23:35:01.504-08:00I, Like, Totally Pledge!Oh. My. God. Take a gander at this, if you dare. Over four minutes of "celebrities" pledging to do various things, culminating in their mutal pledge to serve Obama. I'm not kidding. OBEY! Remember when dissent was the highest form of patriotism? Neither do they.Iowahawk has an amusing post in which he tries to guess who everyone is. He did much better than I; as farAngie Schultznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580366.post-50308172945964314612009-01-16T22:24:00.000-08:002009-01-17T23:30:45.772-08:00Foto Friday: Both Sides NowHere you can look at clouds from both sides at once:View from Haleakala, Oct. 2008Click on the picture for a larger version, which I'm not sure will be much clearer. The bright thing on the lower left is the sun shining on Maalaea Bay. Next to it and extending to the right, under the clouds, are the West Maui Mountains. The green stuff is the central plain of Maui (Angie Schultznoreply@blogger.com