While driving south on Rt 202 from Rt1 into Delaware we saw this Art Car with an ARTCAR Delaware license.The driver smiled when we took a picture of the side of the car and him at a stop light. I expect he wants the attenti...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Sunday, 28 June 2009
As I posted last night we got the chance to see "Back to the Future" at the Guerilla Drive in in West Chester. The Guerilla Drive in isn't a place, it is a guy with a movie projector in the side car of his motorcycle and he arranges secret locations to show movies on 16mm. To get on the list you have to find the MacGuffin, which we did when it was at the hot dog place last year (it has since moved, follow the clues), but haven't gone to one of...
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Every year I think that I have gotten the last of the poison ivy (toxicodendron radicans, or Rhus toxicodenron) out of the garden beds and then some more appears. These vines were ineffectively hiding among the pachysandra and were clearly visible and removed doggy doo style with gloves and a plastic bag and right into the trash. I always act excessively paranoid around the stuff because I hate getting it.Although I am sure there is still more...
Sunday, 21 June 2009
As promised here is video of Shellpot Creek just after the torrential downpours Saturday. The creek was easily the highest it has been in 2009. The USGS agrees, as seen on the following graph. The red circle shows Saturday's peak. It is almost double the peak from May 16th (Note the log scale, click for larger.)The first video is of the creek just downstream and up to the waterfall at the corner of my house. You can barely see the waterfall because...
Saturday, 20 June 2009
I was watching Flash Gordon today and I was struck by Brian Blessed's the over the top portrayal of Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen and it's similarity to Sean McGuire's over the top portrayal of King Leonidas in the 300 spoof, Meet the Spartans.Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen.Sean McGuire as King LeonidasSean McGuire as King Leonidas, but intense.Separated at birth? Related? Is it just the beard and the shirt free outf...
Friday, 19 June 2009
My Father's Day gift this year was an iPod Touch for myself. Conveniently my iPod Nano click wheel had failed so I felt it was time for an upgrade. Apple gave me 10% off of the new iPod for recycling my old one, which was worth it since I won that one in a raffle a few yeays ago anyway. The iPod Touch is still very new to me, but the first thing I did was try to load MLB at Bat 2009, and I got a notice that it needed the 3.0 software. How gutsy is it that I paid all of this money for the iPod and then to get the particular funtionality I needed...
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Here is yet another picture of the swollen Shellpot Creek after a night of rain. This has been an unusually wet Spring it seems. I expect that this creek will rise even higher before this rain has passed.Were you ever driving in a downpour and put your windshield wipers up to the highest setting and then wished for a click or two higher? Today was one of those days. Sprinkles broken up by downpou...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
There are still more fun statistics to be digested as part of the 4th Anniversary celebration of the Honest Hypocrite. As I mentioned earlier, I use StatCounter to visitors and page views to this blog. Using the page load statistics from StatCounter we can look at all 150,000 or so page loads and see a histogram of the fraction of days with a given number of page loads.I have expanded the longer tail region so that the 3800 page load and the 2000...
The title should have clued you in that this is not a biscuit sprinkled with confectioner's sugar but is actually a slime mold called dog vomit slime for obvious reasons. It is not just the flowers that are blooming, rain plus wet mulch yields good conditions for this slime mold. There are interesting in their own right if not as conventionally attractive as flowers.This one is about four inches across. I have seen them bigger.Update: More information...
This picture represents a small fraction of the day lilies blooming all over our landscape. We have so many that we are giving them away. As the saying goes, "Friends don't let friends buy day lilies". Thus the few bunches we dug up were split and given to others. You could also say the same about hostas. We gace those away last year.Given how expensive these can be to buy sometimes giving away something you can always grow more of or is not...
Monday, 15 June 2009
Today is the 4th Anniversary of the Honest Hypocrite. Please help me celebrate! I don't normally have meta-posts on this blog, posts about posting are less interesting than posts about anything else. I will allow myself the luxury of a meta-post today to celebrate both four years of the blog and over 150,000 page loads. I am sure that my high school English teacher would be delighted by my essay output and I am glad that you all are reading,...
Friday, 12 June 2009
Yahoo has a news story about a picture of clouds taken by an Iowan woman that is inspiring meteorologists to define a new cloud type. By the way, there is a Cloud Appreciation Society and they are pushing for it.(Picture from Yahoo and AP)This looks very much like the gravity wave clouds I saw in Delaware in October, and to many other pictures of undulating clouds which I thought were just called gravity waves. Thus I thought these clouds had...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
This Saturday Morning Breakfast cereal comic reminded me of the classic time travel novel The Man who Folded Himself by David Gerrold. If you haven't read it go read it now(Amazon) to avoid the spoilers below. In the comic above the man crassly uses his time machine to go to a time when the girl is in the mood, not realizing that if he in the present has a time machine and has this idea, he in the future might do the same thing and thus a crowd...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
I am guessing that this person claiming the title of COUNTER on their license plate is an accountant. That or they are a variable in a loop in a computer program. What other professions can you think of that might cause someone to get this license plate?Now if I could only get that guy with "bean" on his license to park next to this one...
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Monday, 8 June 2009
I saw this overturned truck at Rt141 Spur and West Park Drive on my ride in this morning. Fortunately I was going straight so I merely had to wait for the policeman to let us through. Only the truck was there when I went through but the News Journal says it was a multi-car accident.This might be the first published picture of the scene. Because the truck was at Rt 141 and the on ramps to 202 and this is a popular left turn for the A I DuPont hospital,...
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Monday, 1 June 2009
After complaining of the difficulty of taking pictures of the Blue Heron that frequents Shellpot Creek behind my house, I was able to get it hunting fish on video.In the video above watch it dive after a fish and ruffle its wings.Here is a brief moment of flight that I mostly missed. Someday I will get a better camera with a sharper telephoto lens and a blue heron blind and I will be s...
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