We picked up Alex from his tennis class at 6PM, just as the partial eclipse was getting as good as it got. Nothing dramatic; colors were a bit washed out (just like they were in the world’s worst made for TV movie, The Langoliers). You could see the shape of the moon when the sun was behind our usual June Gloom evening clouds. Alex took the camera outside during dinner and grabbed this shot.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this picture turns up some day on a UFO site as evidence that the reptilians from Zeta Reticuli have landed.
All the Apple boards are abuzz about Apple’s 8 new ads showing “real people” who switched from Windows to Mac. Some were quick to point out that all 8 switchers are white. I suppose that’s a problem, but what I find a bit disappointing is that the people are still mostly the creative professionals who gravitate towards Mac anyway. There’s a graphic artist, a DJ, a programmer, and two writers among them. Is that a realistic sample of Windows users? I hope in future ads they also show a grandma, a plumber and a bus driver.
And let the melanin fall where it may.
That’s a fair question, now that I’ve been blogging each day for three weeks. Cory Doctorow has written the answer for me. I don’t have (or want) the following that his Boing Boing does, so the social reinforcement that he describes doesn’t apply here. But for giving yourself a focus, a dumping ground for discoveries, and a vehicle for clarifying your thoughts, blogging is da bomb!