Sean’s Mental Walkabout

• Learn The Airdates Of The Final 10 BATTLESTAR GALACTICAs!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  Battle Star returns Jan 16th, and pushes straight through to the end. Can't wait.
• James Governor’s Monkchips » On Timeless Software: Pace Layering and the SAP Software Architecture
  I love this idea that layers in software need to age at different rates. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense.
• ESA - ATV - ATV re-entry: First pictures (updated)
  Some great pictures of reentry of a satelite taken from the DC-8 observing plane. Very cool.
• Star Trek Side By Side Photo Comparisons
  Comparison of new trek casting with old. I'm quite impressed by Spock, Kirk, and Bones casting, and really can't wait for this to come out.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.

OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.

BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose
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Having just seen the end of West Wing on a Bravo marathon, this hits home

Scenes from India - The Big Picture - Boston.com
I really love the images that go up on The Big Picture.

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From Napa, CA

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But as a preview for pictures to be uploaded once we get back, Yosemite is definitely spectacular.

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Mississippi Floodwaters in Iowa - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The damage in Iowa is pretty much unimagineable. These pictures really drive a lot of that home.

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I’m still sorting out how I’m going to do photos in the future, as the old photo album is pretty much under decay, and my interest in the old workflow for publishing has waned. On the viable options from, Smugmug looks like an early leader here, largely because their albums don’t look like poo, and they have a web services API that I can write some ruby code against (at least once they open their API key for signup again.)

I just uploaded the bulk of my pictures from our India trip as a test case. Feedback is appreciated from readers here, especially those that actually tended to show up mostly to see pictures.

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I found myself surprised to realize that we’d been doing our memorial day sunday party What started as our house warming party 4 years ago, has now turned into our big annual event. We had another good turn out year, with ~ 35 folks, good beer, and great food. Ladder Ball was definitely the hit of the year.

Adrianne posted pictures on smugmug, check them out if you are interested.

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