well everyone, i have a bunch of stuff. first some pictures of the sky. i have ideas about why the sky looks like this but i recommend you just enjoy them. i enjoyed taking them, it's a process. roofs and swerves and capers and k-fives and crickets.


the writing below a picture will be about the picture above. this particular one has some unusual designs and grid patterns in that cloud cluster. there is some sort of energy coming from the earth influencing the pattern of clouds. my personal opinion is that weather is mostly effected by the motion of the dynamo (in my understanding the molten goo inside the middle of the earth). i believe this is what is responsible for unusual patterns lately. i would suspect some abnormal dynamo activity. weakening fields and whatnot.

this is in my front yard. i enjoy putting an american flag in my pictures. to me, it feels like a nice touch of pride. lost pride. my 510 does noise reduction by dark frame subtraction. one exposure then another then remove the hot "noise-e" pixels. it works pretty well and i think everything it left is celestial. which is cool cause i saw none of that. this was more than likely over a minute worth of exposure time at iso 800.
this one i pushed the exposure "compensation" a bit. still learning. was relatively dull, wanted DOF and detail in the lower objects. surprised the sky did not "blow out". i have noticed that as the sunsets there seems to be an increase in interesting and unusual tones and shapes in the atmosphere. it is my favorite time to be out. i believe this picture is taken with my passwird.com $20 monopod-tripod deal. this would be the monopod, you get what you pay for.


this is probably my favorite of the bunch and the best illustration of clouds mimicking some sort of ethereal energy signature. this cloud is far beyond what its brethren were sporting, visually. i imagine it is paired with some sort of resonant frequency. possibly the result of communications or whatever else we use the spectrum to transmit. cell phones? it makes me wonder if meteorology even studies or has studied this type of thing. i would venture to guess most just judge "larger picture" satellite imagery as opposed to severely local and rarely unusual clouds. this is my fantasy. this is my personal discovery of a forgotten art. interpreting the energy signatures present in cloud and particulate matter motioning for attention harboring some sort of message, for all of us. the medium of communication for earth -> human. have i gone malko?this is as the sun was setting. the faint orange worries me rather then inspires me. dont ask why.
this cloud is super weird. very teal.


did i mention i have been taking martial arts? tiger schulmans. i hear it called mcdojo, but i somewhat enjoy it. dont know if i can afford 1330 dollars for 65 classes. i would like to. but then again. yea. ramapo opens again on the 4th of sept.

anyone want to go to modest mouse on sept. 8th at mccarren pool? i bought a ticket back when it was scheduled for keyspan park, and the date has been switched twice since then. as of now i am going solo.

links:
nasa
15 blurry pictures

we live in dangerous times. our armies are powerful, and we spend billions of dollars a year on new prisons, yet our lives are still ruled by fear. we are like pygmies lost in a maze. we are not at war, we are having a nervous breakdown. ~hst

Recent things that have made my existence happier, and somewhat fitter:

* Engaged Life
* No longer drinking soda
* Only one caffeinated drink per day
* Multi-Vitamins
* Earlier Bed
* Changing my desk setup to be ergonomically correct
* Not letting work stress me out
* Montclair Restaurants
* Living somewhere where I can walk places
* Registering for my first MBA courses
* Drinking 5-6 glasses of water a day
* My company's new espresso machine, which allows me to not buy coffee each morning
* Cutting down on the booze (hangovers were getting too rough to handle)

That all definitely takes care of the happier. But I'm not quite there with the fitter, yet. I hope to somehow find time for physical activity once my school schedule gets rolling. But even if I have to hold that off for a little bit, I feel infinitely better day in and day out then I did two months ago, which is pretty great.

for a while the haarp cam has been showing a shot from may 17th. after three months of that shit i decided to fire an email to the haarp facility. what they didnt tell me in the email is that there is an alternate site. there is a pic above from that monster.

from: infohaarp@maestro.haarp.alaska.edu
Hi Paul,

The shelter where the HAARP Cam was monted was deteriorating rapidly and was removed from the site. We will restore the original camera as soon as we can get a new shelter into that space, hopefully before the cold weather sets in this fall.

Thanks for your inquiry,
I.H.

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>when is it coming back online?

Sudden shifts in weather always conjure up somewhat foreign feelings. Not Morocco foreign, though. More like Canada foreign. The barely conscious memories of dozens of other similar feeling days trying to sneak into your conscious thoughts. Some half-making it. Some making it all the way. It'll make you do things like wanna blow off work for a suburban mall. Or take a walk down the street to a non-existent train station. Or light a candle. Or use a certain brand of soap. Today was one of those days. The recent heat giving way to a sudden chill. It came at the right time, too. Capped off a week filled with reasons for introspection. Good reasons.

I laughed at Paul last night for twice remarking that he willed something into happening. But I don't know. Maybe there's something to it.

fun knee

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

~Donald Rumsfeld