Alkahest my heroes have always died at the end

June 25, 2007

Fun with aphorisms

Filed under: University Life — cec @ 9:22 pm

I was in a longish meeting today when it occurred to me that it is a military truism that “no plan survives first contact with the enemy.”  Moreover, as Walt Kelly’s Pogo noted, “we have met the enemy and he is us.”  This suggests that no plan survives first contact with its creators.

Most of my meetings bear this out.

Yellowstone pictures

Filed under: Personal,Photography — cec @ 11:53 am

When we came back from Yellowstone this year, I had about 1,800 pictures to go through.  I’ve finally selected the best 200 or so.  Some of them need a bit of cleanup in terms of brightness and in a few cases, getting rid of a mark that was on the back of a lens which shows up when the camera is stopped down.  Using the open source principle of release early and often, I’ve put these images online in their current form.  I’ve also got a few more that I put in my “best” category that I haven’t done yet, but will tonight.

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