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Halloween weekend begins tonight. I suppose I should pull my pumpkin out of storage today and set it up in the window, but… “meh” Maybe part of it is that I haven’t been out much in the evenings and don’t really plan to get out this weekend. I guess I could head out with the camera and take pictures of gals wearing whiskers, but the holiday just isn’t winding my watch this year. Heck, I haven’t even bought any insurance candy like I did last year. I suppose I’ll pick something up before Monday, but at this point I’m mostly wondering how noisy it’ll get tonight and tomorrow night as folks wander the neighborhood in search of beer. I’m pretty sure I’m feeling like an old fogey.
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I forgot to mention that I hung up the bird feeders on Wednesday. It’s time to get the critters used to finding food here before winter hits. While I was out running around Wednesday afternoon, I scored a hanger from a local hardware store. It was something they bought as a display for a home show, and has been rattling around for a while with a price-tag of $38.95 on it. I offered $20, and now it’s holding up a bird feeder. But because I mounted it on the little shed next to the garage, the feeder is only about a half-meter off the ground, which makes it an easy hop for the squirrels. You can’t see the hanger in the picture I took, but I’ve decided the little shed that’s attached to my garage does nothing but annoy me anyhow, so I’m probably going to tear it down next spring, at which point I’ll mount the hanger on the garage, and all will be well (and the squirrels will have to work a little harder for their breakfast).
- No longer able to soar, SpaceShipOne at the Smithsonian. I’d rather see SS1 flying regularly, but it was an experimental craft, and it’s good to see it going into the Nation’s Attic, even if Kirsten thinks it’s heartbreaking.
- Speaking of space, SpaceX Charges Racketeering–Sues Boeing and Lockheed Martin! I wish them luck.
- Warren did an experiment in Archiving Coyote Blog in Print Form so he could print off a copy for his computer-illiterate dad. He recommends lulu.com for self-publishing. Mental note made. [coyote blog]
- There was a Loogie Found In Trooper’s Turkey Wrap at Arby’s one night, and the minimum-wage cook who spit in the food faces a decade in jail if found guilty. Harsh, dude. [WVSR]
- Huh. I’m not the only one who tells the various noisy electronic devices around me You Know What? Just Shut Up. Of course if they’re especially annoying I usually end up performing surgery on them and removing the stupid little speaker. [wired]
- Ken Rockwell’s Guide to Nikon Products is pretty handy if you’ve got (or are thinking of buying) that brand of camera. I don’t agree with everything Ken says about digital SLRs (he claims that because with digital you can get faster ISOs, lens speed doesn’t matter, but as I mentioned in my essay on available light photography, I used to push film to ASA 6400, and the best the digital SLRs can do is 1600), but small quibbles like that aside, he’s got a lot of good information out there. [vowe]
- The Gun Guy has Thoughts About Tulsa in which he mostly talks about strategies for buying ammunition, whether at gun shows or not. Mental note made.