Life
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A little piece of life as we were leaving Connecticut on our way back to Texas. Thank-you, airport security. [audio:http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Bradley_Airport_Alert.mp3|titles=Bradley Airport Alert]
I photographed this in an abandoned pedestrian tunnel stairwell in Palo Alto, CA, in April of 2010. Seems prescient now.
Sing, sad little Christmas bell! [audio:http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sad_little_xmas_bell.mp3|titles=Sing, sad little Christmas bell!]
It’s time for another popcorn science. An oft-repeated claim, backed by few thoughts or facts, is that the U.S. Federal Government should take a cue from Main Street and run its budget like a household runs its budget. Households, so the claim goes, work within their constraints and don’t carry […]
The insane lightshow in the nearby town of Fairview. [stream provider=video base=x:/steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ flv=christmas_show.mp4 embed=true share=true width=400 height=300 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=false /]
Some media of wakeboarding at our automated, boat-less park in Allen Station. [stream provider=video base=x:/steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ flv=wakeboarding.mp4 mp4=wakeboarding.mp4 embed=true share=true width=400 height=300 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=false /]
In this area, incredibly large flocks of birds will descend on parking lots, the roofs of buildings, and any nearby trees. Here is what one of these flocks sounded like outside of a JCPenny in a nearby mall. [audio:http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Huge_flock_of_birds.mp3|titles=Huge flock of birds]
Here is some audio from Sather Tower at University of California-Berkeley. The Bells of Sather Tower [audio:http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Berkeley_Sather_Tower.mp3]
It’s about 11 in the morning and the phone is ringing. The crappy red plastic cordless phone is ringing, and the cheap digital sound fills my one-room cottage in Atherton, CA. I remember getting home around 4am. I remember the last thing I heard on the radio before I turned […]