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30
Oct 15

Signs, but without the Ace of Bass jokes

We started the week with a sign, if I recall. Let’s end it that way, too. I had to go down to the back of the post office area where things are offloaded from trucks. It is a very utilitarian area. It works, it is efficient. I’m sure it isn’t on the campus tours. Doesn’t have to be. The folks there do good work and they do it fast and they know their business. Always very helpful.

There’s an elevator there. And above that elevator is this sign:

And that’s just good life advice.

I mentioned last week how much I enjoy reading the bulletin boards on campus. Here’s another class advertisement that was worth noticing today:

“Can cats have ethics if there is no God?”

I was not previously aware those concepts were not mutually exclusive. But, hey, maybe for cats. I’ll ask Allie sometime. She’s got some Siamese in her and is given to long pontification. But I digress.

“Join the cats of philosophy answer this head-scratching question in … ”

Last week’s class advertisement, you might recall, was for the same class. Those cats are going to cover a lot of ground between Justin Bieber and Johnny Cash and Ceiling Cat and the grammatical error.

Here’s another, from a different bulletin board not far from the first:

“So you want to be a scientist?”

Not if that’s what your lab is creating, no sir.

“Then join the biolgy department on Tuesday …”

I’m not sure where the “Biolgy Department” falls on the organizational chart. Good curriculum, though. Among the more popular classes are Catnip Cultivation 410 and Whisker Weaving 203. (That’s an elective, I’m sure.)

So use cats in your advertising, I suppose.

This is what happened when I got home today. Walk in, put my stuff down and, immediately:

I have it on good authority that she’s not interested in going anywhere. So I suppose this means I should stay here.

Here’s something else I put on the Internet today. You’ve already seen it on Instagram, if you’re following me there. Come on over and follow me.

My first Boomerang branding experiment.

A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on Oct 30, 2015 at 4:32pm PDT

Here’s another Boomerang. It has even less point, which means it has practically none, really. We’re trying to figure out the utility for this app in class. Reviews are mixed.

Boomer-road.

A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on Oct 30, 2015 at 7:21pm PDT

photo / swimming / Thursday — Comments Off
29
Oct 15

This post asks an implied question about pun apologies

We had some dramatic clouds today:

Do you know what makes clouds dramatic?

ACTING!*

Sorry. Sometimes a pun grabs hold of you and it just won’t let go.

Here’s a high school wall I passed the other day:

Vex is a robotics competition. Now, if you knew where I was when I saw this, you might think it odd that a so very far out of the way and small high school would be all that interested in robotics competitions. But if you knew the school, and you knew a lot about scholastic robotics, you’d know that these kids pretty much win everything. They’re an inspired group. Fun to watch.

And, because I haven’t put up a similar photo in 10 days:

I do love those road pics. This was from at the bottom of the hill in Chewacla on Saturday. Leaning over the cockpit and trying to grab a quick shot of that small road before a car got in the frame. I was going a calm and respectable 18 miles an hour or so. The pine needles were a blur, the leaves were crinkling in the tires and the breeze felt nice enough to make you want to go climb that hill again. I just might do it soon.

*Like you wanted to hear about today’s 2,200 yard swim. I don’t want to hear about it and I was the one doing the laps.

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28
Oct 15

These leaves are quitters

I stepped outside two times today. Once was to go from office to class and once was to go run, a brisk five mile jog that was mostly remarkable for feeling normal.

On the way back from my run, and on to an evening meeting, I got a few leaf pictures. They are giving up the fight:

By next week they’ll all be on the ground and brown, probably. That’s the way it moves here: fast.

So you seek out the maples and the dogwoods and you hope your timing is right.

Now, no photo could ever capture the feeling of autumn, particularly on a rainy day, and especially not the hasty cell phone variety of shot. But that doesn’t mean we don’t try.

photo / Samford / Tuesday — Comments Off
27
Oct 15

Sifting through extra photos

I s tarted running again yesterday. Got in a nice and even four-miler. Start back swimming this week, too, I think. That must be why I’m thinking about a second dinner late in the evening as I listen to the journalists in the next room put their paper to bed for the week.

Since a second dinner would just look tacky, I’ll settle on this sticker that I saw yesterday. I suppose its a necessary thing. The jig is up for three-foot-tall Frankensteins looking to knock off a Whataburger:

I want to go dressed as every other burger place I can think of, just to make the statement that they are inferior to Whataburger, which is open 24 hours a day, the closest one being only about 20 minutes away.

But, no. Stay strong. Stay hungry.

Here’s a quick shot I took this weekend:

For as long as I can remember I’ve been enamored with the idea of finding a field with nothing on the horizon and one terrific, full tree in the foreground. It would just be field and sky and my tree, straight out of a basic artistic composition class. I haven’t found it yet. Every now and again the singular hay bale is a reasonable stand in.

One last extra thing. This house looks old. I think it is the humble brick line and the classic porch and the nice architecture.

It is a 21st century home. Clever design, no?

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26
Oct 15

James Bros Bikes Breast Cancer Awareness ride

Thirty miles in pink jerseys. Mine came direct from Poland. This event was hosted by our local bike shop and started and ended at the state park near home. So naturally we were going to ride. Here’s Ren before the start:

The course took us over a lot of familiar roads. That’s one of the things that happens when you’re riding a local event. It also took us on a few roads we don’t ride enough. That’s also one of the things that happens when you’re riding a local event.

Striking a pose:

Not to worry. That’s on a long, straight flat road with high quality asphalt that we ride all of the time. Excellent sight lines and no one was coming either direction. Also, she’s a graceful artist.

Here we are posing after the ride. Lot of fun with some familiar faces and around some great roads and scenery for such a fine cause.

At the end I rode up the big hill in the park and then we pedaled home. It was a fine ride.