Great clouds this morning.
I posted to YouTube a 24x time lapse (50 second duration), also available for download: 17may25.mp4 (6.3MB). ![]() ![]() The defendant had introduced a document purported to be a signed agreement between her and her (now deceased) aunt. An expert witness said the document was fake and the jury concurred. I was reminded of a case I followed some years ago. My personal opinion: it's really not OK to concoct a document and misrepresent it in legal proceedings. This was my first time serving on a jury. It was interesting to see the group dynamics of twelve people deciding a case. Unrelated to the trial I served on, a man and woman came to the courthouse to elope on Friday. They stood before a county official, outdoors on the steps by the front door. I happened to be walking past just as they took their marriage vows. The 103‑year‑old courthouse is one of the nicest buildings in the valley.
Seymour Cray,
talking
about having used a circular slide rule early in his career:
I had the 10-inch model. Now that's as big as circular slide rules were made, so I had the very top of the line in computing capability. Now many of you are probably not familiar with slide rules. But I can tell you that if you had a circular one, you had some social problems in college. ![]() bee
on Robinia pseudoacacia
Seven years ago
I wrote about seeing a jackrabbit stretch the way dogs do.
It happened again this week but this time I got pics.
This is this year's resident jackrabbit, the same one whose pic graced this page a week ago. The image changes with mouseover. ![]() ![]() ![]() roadrunner
this afternoon.
![]() The weather has turned
warm and a jackrabbit has settled on a shady spot near my house to lounge
during the daytime.
I wasn't seeing as many jacks as usual over the last
couple years and I'm happy that they're coming back.
Writing fiction doesn't come easily for me. I have a hard time
even getting started.
And yet every now and then I have a dream like a short story with colorful characters, foreshadowing, and something of a narrative arc. |