Tuesday November 27, 2001
Play it as flash, or download the app and play it on your Mac or Windows machine, but you just gotta play The Second Line. As usual I can't say I understand it, but it is fun being a fly for a while.




From BuckWheat Acres
here's a little slide show on their goat cheese manufacturing setup along with some happy goat pics.



Accidentally Kansas from Lori Nix: "Of course photography is not merely a naive mechanical device recording unfiltered truth; it’s just another way to embellish the truth."


Cool button sized micro engine/generator that produces up to 20 watts of power: The Little Engine That Could Be. But 2.4 million RPM??? Jeezum. Think about it. The second hand on a clock does 1 rpm, your car typically idles at 1,000 rpm and cruises at about 3 or 4 thousand rpm, the hard drive in your computer spins at 5,400 or 7,200 unless you shell out extra bucks for a high speed 10,000 rpm drive. A totally useless perspective: if the second hand of your watch started spinning 2.4 million rotations per minute your watch would be gaining 1,666 days per minute, or about a month per second.


More fun with the digi camera this morning. Check out this treetrunk alongside the road. It's probably been backed into a few too many times and when I flipped the picture upside down there was a face of sorts...ok, maybe a face spawned from the darkest depths of Mordor.

Or, maybe, they make old barns like this out of pre-tortured wood?




A little later Zeke had his head poking into a culvert and I got to wondering if some animal might be hiding out inside. Rather than stick my own head into the culvert I let the camera do the looking for me...nope, no skunks in here.




Garfield's Smokehouse is just down the road from us and makes a wonderful smoked cheese. Besides just eating with crackers or apples, the rind on the ends is good to dice up finely and put into a pot of homemade potato-leek soup.