Knights Ferry Photographs

KnightsFerryHillside04
Originally uploaded by Not So Much.

Last Monday morning I went to Knights Ferry and took some photographs around the old covered bridge and the ruins. Here they are.

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Breaking News: Theist Being Driven Mad by Thought Experiment

Poppies at Digital Reason has blogged about my post God — A Thought Experiment. Apparently I’m driving him mad. I’ll try to bring some sanity later, but now I must get ready for work.

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Daily Drawing — Stay Tuned

Last night I did a sketch of a … wait for it … stapler! I think it turned out all right. But it may be a few days before I can get it up on Flickr, because last Sunday I bought a new computer to replace the one I used for processing images. [...]

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A New Atheist Blog

There’s a new blog out called Atheist’s Wager which is getting a little attention on Digg. The first post includes these little tidbit:
If, by chance and chance alone, one is born into the right religion and curries favor with God Almighty, then this person is actively collaborating with the enemy of humanity. The atheist [...]

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Daily Drawing — Tape Dispenser

TapeDispenser
Originally uploaded by Not So Much.

I finally did another sketch at work. This is, of course, a tape dispenser. The proportions or not quite right, which resulted in the tape spool looking off, but it’s close. I also forgot to draw the inside of the tape spool, and I neglected [...]

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Daily Drawing — Gecko on a Branch

Gecko_OnBranch
Originally uploaded by Not So Much.
Maybe I should rename this feature “Occasional Drawing.” I actually started this last Friday. I’m sketching from a photo I found on the net. There’s some details on the gecko (like little spots) that I haven’t done yet, but I thought I’d put it up [...]

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Parachutes

Parachutist08_1April07
Originally uploaded by Not So Much.

I took some photos of parachutists at the Lodi airport a while back, including a few tandem jumps. A group of us at work are planing to make our own tandem jumps in late May. Hopefully none of us die!

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Bright and Shiny Fascism

IOZ has an interesting post up that uses Star Trek to make some observations about liberalism and the military.  I was a big fan of Star Trek when I was a kid — looking back I found it encouraging that the show depicted humanity making it through the warfare and greed of the present to [...]

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Daily Drawing — Gecko

Gecko_TurningRight
Originally uploaded by Not So Much.

Since drawing the sea turtle went so well, I thought I’d look for other simplified “tribal” style animal drawings. I googled “gecko” and found lots of examples to try out. Here’s the first one. Ain’t he cute?

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Daily Drawing — Sea Turtle

SeaTurtle
Originally uploaded by Not So Much.

I went to visit a friend this last weekend, and while I was there I was thumbing through a mail-order catalogue. One of the items was a hand-painted tile (with an inspirational message) that featured a sea turtle. I liked the turtle, so a drew this free-hand based [...]

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