Archive for January 30th, 2007

30 Jan 2007 Pfffffftttt!
Author: Gail |  Category: Randomage  | Leave a Comment

pffffffffffttttt

A beluga sprays on command during a show at the Vancouver Aquarium, Saturday, January 23.

That’s how I felt this morning!

Yesterday I said “Roll on Tuesday!” but somehow that message must’ve gotten mixed up in the cosmos because this morning I woke up to a bunch of blinking numbers after eight o’clock instead of an alarm! Like some others, I scrambled to get to work on time.

According to this online article in the Globe and Mail it wasn’t officially a power outage but a drop in voltage levels caused by a fire at a Toronto fire (oops) power station. But it still reset every electric-powered time device in my home including the microwave, stove, and it knocked out my modem. The router and my VoIP gateway are back up and running after a reboot.

Roll on… er, go incident-free Wednesday!

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30 Jan 2007 Timing
Author: Gail |  Category: Cuba, Photography  | 3 Comments

timing

December 28, 2006
Havana, Cuba

I love this photo, but I had to take it in a hurry if I wanted it to be natural. It illustrates the choice you have to make sometimes between timing and the desire to make a technically better photograph. If I had stopped to change the settings or composition they would’ve noticed me, but I wanted to take the picture as they were at that moment. Timing won out.

Best viewed larger.

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