Spring Tulips
Again, a tree above was providing some fantastic diffuse lighting, which really helped soften this shot.
Again, a tree above was providing some fantastic diffuse lighting, which really helped soften this shot.
This American Life tackles the sub-prime housing market. I’ve read economists writing about this crisis… and it’s rather difficult to understand. I mean, all this talk of AAA overrated paper, etc. — I got a vague idea of the topic, but I wanted something more. Soo, I read a glowing recommendation of This American Life’s coverage of the topic. A quick summary:
What does the housing crisis have to do with the collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.
I hope to give this one a listen soon.
The lighting was perfect in the yard a few houses north of here.
Lighting provided by a street lamp — good job, street lamp!
There’s something about this video of panda babies that makes the little ones look animatronic or something. Don’t get me wrong, they’re astoundingly cute, but they look like youngsters in suits or something. It could be that their movements resemble toddlers so much that it looks odd.
There’s more information and tons of pictures here, including this:
Human pregnancies can be revealed by ultrasound, the telltale expanded belly, and home-pregnancy tests, but panda pregnancies are highly difficult to detect. None of these work for pandas. They won’t generally sit still for ultrasounds, their babies are born too small — the size of a stick of butter — to create any noticeable belly, and their pregnancy hormones remain a mystery.
And yes, you might want this picture of handlers corralling about seven baby pandas on your desktop.
On a recent walk with Mykala.
In this lovely classic Sesame Street video, Kermit sings about how to tell if something is alive. The song is great and the concept is rather timeless, but I implore you to watch and see what the Sesame Street version of a cow looks like. For some reason I think it’s hilarious.
I take a picture like this just about every year, each time a little different. I love grass and sunsets, so here you are.
It just hasn’t gotten warm this year, so spring has been slow to… spring.
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