Heading north for the weekend
(dogs are closer than they appear)

He leverages his good looks to push seedlings...

Uther would like to take a moment to thank our friends at Old Shaw Farm for their hospitality and their open door policy.

Reminded of the solstice by the good folks at Old Shaw Farm, I look forward to the ever extending light on the shortest day of the year.

the solstice is either of the two times a year when the Sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator, the great circle on the celestial sphere that is on the same plane as the earth's equator.

The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The sun appears at its lowest point in the sky, and its noontime elevation appears to be the same for several days before and after the solstice. Hence the origin of the word solstice, which comes from Latin solstitium, from sol, "sun" and -stitium, "a stoppage." Following the winter solstice, the days begin to grow longer and the nights shorter.

The precise moment of the 2004 solstice will be December 21, 2004 at 7:42 A.M. EST.

Solstice Time -infoplease

been playing around with some jpeg converters and perl to hack out a new way to organize my photos. I love gallery, but I wanted something a little simpler and hopefully a bit more elegant.

Here are the photos from the recent vermont trip:

A brief fall sojourn to Vermont for the Old Shaw Farm Worker Appreciation Festival, and a little leaf peepin'.

Also, all this talk about Angus and anger has left Uther feeling a little left out, so here's to Der Gute Hund.

"Words fail me. . ." - Peter

Dungeon Majesty

Dungeon Majesty is a cable-access TV show in which four young women play Dungeons and Dragons -- the show is intercut with Z-grade green-screen masks of them staging D&D fights in front of fakey caves or deep in spooky woods, and illustrated with flip-book animations fo D&D monsters drawn in pen on lined paper. This is really fantastic stuff -- it's got nerd pride to burn, and production values that make MST3K look slick.

Quicktime Teaser

-via boing boing

I voted today via absentee ballot. Why wait until the election rush? All the really good candidates are taken up by then.

I sing with a voice of one in a choir of millions. But as Peter always says, "If you don't play, you can't win."

keeping america scared ( 5232.63kb .mov ) - via peter

update: video by Brennan Houlihan via Oliver Willis