http://spleen-me.com/blog Stuff that is so cool I have to share it with you! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:46:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the view from a park located near my place in Flag. http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2148 Today I had to take "compliance training" for work.  The phrase suggests an activity that might involve leather or vinyl outfits, but alas, it wasn't nearly that interesting.  It consisted of page after page of power-point-like slides, each bearing a single piece of clip art to massage the right-brain visual ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2103 It is absurdly beautiful here, no humidity, less than 80 degrees, full of hummingbirds... Oh yeah baby! http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2100 The Rowan University alumnus magazine Rowan Today has made me a poster child for non-traditionalism by featuring me on the cover of the summer 2010 issue, as well as producing a plump article about my career to date.  Here's the link to their page but you get also get the ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2073 The Abrams was a sister ship of the Dixie Arrow, the wreck we visited the day before this dive.  Unfortunately the visibility was not nearly as good, something I've been told is typical.  The viz was OK until about 45 feet under, when it deteriorated to perhaps 15 feet at ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2056 The Dixie Arrow was a US tanker torpedoed by a German U-boat during WWII.  Here is the story, as taken from www.outerbanksdiving.com: <built> in Camden NJ in 1920 and 1921, <the Dixie Arrow and its sister ship, the F. W.  Abrams>  met their end in 1942 only a few miles apart ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2014 I spent the day in Albuquerque, biking along the Rio Grande.  Albuquerque struck me as a dusty, overcrowded place with a somewhat contrived "old town" area, but it says something that in August I was able to spend hours outside in the middle of the day without evaporating.  It was ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=2005 Arizona's forests are so pretty during flower season! Every other half-acre is a charmed meadow sprinkled with flowers of all hues.  Nobody plants them; they grow wild everywhere.  It's been like this for about 3 weeks now.  During the "golden hour" it will take your breath away as the angled ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=1983 The Schultz fire is now 75% contained.  There is no visible smoke from my location as of today, but two days ago I took these images of the San Francisco peaks as they appeared from about 15 miles away.  The views are beautiful from this road (Lake Mary Road, coming ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=1978 Here is a map of the fire at what I believe was its greatest extent, more than 15000 acres.  The fire is not over yet, but the firemen appear to be gaining on it. Right now the entire region is closed to hikers, but when it's all over I will make ... http://spleen-me.com/blog/?p=1971