Went to the doctor yesterday. My ears were screwed up, which confirms what I thought was going on. Then to Target to fill the prescription and pick up a few necessities, and back home to sleep away the afternoon while “watching” a couple movies. The only one I completely slept through was something on the TiVo that I didn’t really care if I saw or not, so that was just fine by me. I’m feeling a little better this morning, but think I’m going to take another day off. My brain still feels fuzzy, and my ears haven’t stopped hurting. No point in going back only to feel miserable and have to head home mid-day.
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More pictures of things on horses’ butts today. A grinning cat (?), an Indian Head and an eagle. The first still intrigues me, and I wonder if there’s a story behind it. The toothy grin just catches my eye, I guess. And the crude lines work better for me than it if had been sculpted more realistically.
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To the right, a carved Indian Head, similar to that found on US pennies around the turn of the century or that of a Cigar Store Indian. The gold paint around the edges stood out nicely, and it was just visually appealing.
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Finally, there’s a gilt eagle. I pumped up the highlights a little to get it to look more like what I actually saw, and I like the way it’s peering over the rump of the horse. Again, it was something that caught my eye, and I think I got a fairly accurate rendering of what I saw almost two weeks ago.
I think that’s going to do it for today. I’m a little light on the links again. At this point, I think it’s as much due to it being a slow news day as to my not feeling well. In any case, you get what you get. Here’s hoping I’m feeling better tomorrow. I’ve used up all of my sick-time at work, so today’s probably going to be an unpaid day off. Kinda sucks, but there you have it. Hopefully this is my one big illness for the year, and I’ll be in good shape once I kick it.
- Glenn talks about NBC and NASCAR and gets more right than I would have figured. The NBC portion of the season generally sucks. The Fox portion, less so, but I still miss the days when NASCAR coverage was on cable and they didn’t feel the need to explain the difference between tight and loose 23 times per race. In any case, if NBC is really going to be planting someone in the crowd to see if fans are racist, it’ll either be a non-story or a black eye for NASCAR, and I just don’t understand why the network would try to give a black eye to one of their bigger draws. [instapundit]
- Matt Cole’s Adventures with Lightning is a fun little read about taking pictures of lightning. He’s also got some pretty pictures and a lot of links to other folks’ pictures.
- I stumbled onto Matt’s site via a spiffy article on Using the 35mm Nikon Perspective Control Lens. I find myself thinking that I wish there was a version that would work at least semi-automagically with my camera, but I don’t know if I’d pay the roughly $1000 that such lenses run. After all, I’ve got Photoshop, and can always make the correction in the computer if need be. But I really do prefer getting things right in the camera, which is why you don’t see much in the way of perspective correction in the photos I take. I bet I’d use the lens and enjoy it.
- Tomrrow night, the Mill City Museum will have a Baseball in Minnesota presentation as part of their First Thursdays series. I’m hoping I’ll feel up to going and I’m pretty sure I’ll buy the book eventually, even if I don’t make it over there tomorrow.