Pittsburgh 360

Photographer Steve Mellon has made the Pittsburgh Post Gazette online once again viewable these days with his photographic essays on the Burgh.

He's been doing this for a while and I am soooo overdue in this mention...oh, and disclaimer:the pic above is not Steve's , I needed something to draw you , dear readers, into my little story.

He does a 360 of any place he shoots, meaning, he sets up his camera on a tripod (I am really over simplifying this) and shoots, turns over agina into a 360 and up and down so you can see the place as if you were standing there. It's a long and tedious process, but so worth it!

It then goes on the website :

http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/panorama/

and in a Quicktime version, you can view it.

Fewer people are reading the newspaper, and of course you know my gripe with the PG (they feature high school football players college choices as FRONT PAGE news, rather than in the SPORTS section...arrrgh) so it's it was a smart move on Steve's part to do this on the website.

Steve Mellon has almost restored my faith in the PG, because HE is in their employ.

The PG is back on my "favorites" button so I can see his photos.

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File under: WTF?

This is a place you would NEVER find Invisi-Gal, it is my idea of conceptual hell.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0425/p20s01-woap.html

I am an avowed cat hater for the following reasons:

1) You can't hear them coming and that gives them the upper hand

2) They get on the counter and lick the butter (see above)

3) They vomit hair balls with alarming regularity

4) Kitty Litter... do I have to say more?

5) The feline nature is one of disdain filled tolerance

6) Their hair gets everywhere and if you are one of the unfortunate to get it your (gag) mouth, you will never be rid of it.

Imagine the cat hair in that cafe in Tokyo (see link above) and how much hair gets into your tea!

Big minus is, Invisi-Gal would not be able to wear black there for fear of massive magnetic cat hair clumps.Ewww, Ewww, and Ewww.

Don't even think about writing me and trying to "cure" me of cat hate. I have only met 2 cats in my lifetime that I didn't hate, and that's because they acted like dogs.

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The Hubble is so amazing. How else would we get front row view of divine energy?

Which by the way, resembles a calla lily.

Hmmmm....I see a pattern here.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/24/hubble-galaxies.html

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I am an incurable Porch Potato. Once I am in the chair, I'm done.

I let the phone ring,

the dog bark,

the pot boil,

the world can just simmer down, and let me watch the birds at the bird feeder.

The Rose Breasted Grosbeak is back at the feeder. Every winter, it migrates to Central Freaking America. Then every spring, it flies back to MY Feeder. The least I can do is sit still and welcome it back, dontcha think?

I love the porch.

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Duct Tape, the new Supernanny....

If it Cracks like a Duct...

If it quacks like a duct...

My wish come true...

LOS ANGELES — A passenger on a Los Angeles-bound jetliner was arrested after the FBI said he drunkenly attacked a flight attendant and was duct-taped to his seat by other flyers.
An FBI spokeswoman says the Orange County man was arrested on suspicion of interfering with a flight crew when the United Airlines flight from Hong Kong landed at LAX yesterday.
Airline and airport officials say several passengers struggled with the man after he attacked the attendant.

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Right after I had posted about being a Protestant and poorly trying to cross myself along with the Pope at Ground Zero (See Holy in One post), I had a little divine intervention moment.

I was watching HBO's Curb your Enthusiasm , it was the episode where Larry thinks he's adopted by a nice Christian family from the Mid West. Being Jewish, he had no idea how to cross himself during grace at dinner and his "adoptive" mother explained:

"Head,toes,watch,wallet."

My question answered by digital medium.

Ask and you shall receive

...just be sure you have cable.

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Amber Waves of Green Part deux....

The news today has been filled with stories of CostCo and Sam's Club limiting the amount of flour and rice they will sell. This is because of a world wide shortage. Hmmmm...

Hasn't Invisi-Gal been harping on this? Haven't I been saying our wheat is their oil? Haven't I been spewing constantly about the US reverting from the manufacturing giant it was to the ORIGINAL giant it was...Agrarian Giant.

Our farmlands are more than a canvas for cropcircles!

Thomas Jefferson was right, he wanted us to be a farm based society, feed the world with our plenty...had we done that in a balanced "whey", we would have major bargaining chips against high oil prices and our trade debt to China.

David Francis agrees:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0421/p15s01-wmgn.html

Damn, it hurts to be right...

..and invisible...

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Shots fired from the Brassy Knoll...

Our Lieutenant Governor , Katherine Baker Knoll is a pistol. She's like my late Aunt Mooney who never took sh-t from anyone one, and she's not about to now.

It is her job to point out what a boob you are, and there is no edit button on her anywhere.

She is the Anti-Invisi-Gal!

Most women would have stood in silence and let their big moment blow by (introducing the ex Prezzie in the burgh at a Hillary rally), but KBK would NOT be denied.

To quote the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction, "I will not be ignored, Dan!"

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/politics/15949104/detail.html

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