Santorini Pictures Posted

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Whew, I finally got through the pictures I took on Santorini, if anyone is interested. The above is a church in Oia taken at night with a long exposure.

Now on to Athens!

That's Not Ok 104.9

I was driving to work the other day and turned to 104.9, which is supposed to be an alternative station which occasionally plays 80s songs and I hear Phil Collins and Philip Bailey singing "She's An Easy Lover." Dude, WTF? That's not all right.

District 9

A bunch of us went to see District 9 at the theater the other night. I liked it with some reservations. There were a lot more bodily fluids than I was expecting, and this is compared to Drag Me to Hell. I appreciated the irony of aliens coming to South Africa and being treated as an unwanted people who are treated as subhuman by the locals who herd them into slums where they live separately from the humans. The story centers around a bureaucrat who starts out as the worst kind of bigot who gradually becomes more sympathetic throughout the course of the movie. The start of the movie is a lot more tense than I had expected, almost painfully so. Then it sort of morphs into an action movie, which helped to relieve the tension. Overall, good flick but perhaps too intense for some.

What A Bear Might Look Like

TV station does reenactment of bear visit to a woman's back yard. That's some quality journalism, Lou.

RIP Les Paul

Les Paul, creator of one of the first solid body guitars, a musical innovator who developed multitrack recording and audio effects like reverb, passed away at 94 yesterday. While the signature Gibson guitar named after him has changed the way music sounds, I think his contributions to recording are even more meaningful. I hope he's rocking out, wherever he is.

I've Been Published!

Well, after a fashion, anyway. A guy who writes for an ESL website asked permission to use one of my pictures from the bazaar in Istanbul for an article he was working on. So now it's been published here.