Apr 4
Joel, this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone.
Martin Cooper, speaking the first words ever said over a mobile phone. A Motorola engineer, Martin used his newly invented device to call Joel Engel, a rival at AT&T, on April 3, 1973. Many would say that the mobile phones have been rude and annoying ever sense.
See: This story from the BBC and this one from CNN for more
There are times when time takes too much time to time out. Know what I mean?
Blame it on the Babylonians. Our Base 60 time system is a bear to calculate — especially if you have to calculate runtimes of segments of video.
Quick: What’s the duration between timestamp 00:18:28 and 00:45:39?
My point exactly. Trying to count that clumsy sum on your finders and toes will give your a brain hang-up more epic than Babylon’s famous gardens.
Luckily, I came across this handy, free time calculator for just such mathematical challenges. As an added plus, the calculator stores your past entries, so you can click to compute common number combos.
Nebuchadnezzar himself couldn’t ask for a better math tool. Unless, of course, he would have know about the decimal system.
From today’s WSJ… View the article here…
I guess I’m not the only one who thinks the Rangers need prayer!
Aug 7
This morning, Sarah and I discovered two things:
Getting up early works for birds hunting worms, so we figured the same strategy might work for poor kids searching for bedroom storage on the cheap. Kind of like the Ethan Allen cabinet we recently found and painted.
When our usual hot spots turned us down cold, we stepped into a consignment shop in Frisco. That’s where we spotted this ol’ chap standing in a corner.
It’s a hardwood English wardrobe most likely from the 1920′s – 1950′s. It’s called a “hall” wardrobe because at just over 5 ft. tall and 18 in. deep, it’s diminutive size is well-suited for an entryway or hallway. Or, in our case, it’s perfect scale for our cozy apartment.
And after a little discussion with the proprietor, we ended up with a petit $84 price tag to match.
Our original plan was to find something we could paint or refinish. But, with it’s beautiful hardwood inlays, scroll work and quaint hardware, we find the English accents charming, indeed!
A compass rose is embedded in the cobblestones below my feet. It’s fitting decoration for a place where the course of history has changed direction so many times since work began on Notre Dame in 1163 — work that took nearly 200 years later to complete.
They say that women love drama — and Our Lady of Paris is no exception. Dramatic moments at Notre Dame include:
Speaking of change….Image this. Construction of this western façade alone took 80 years. That’s why the face of the building is layered like tiers on a wedding cake. None of the architects in charge of the building project lived long enough to see it to completion from start to finish. When the architect changed, so did the creative vision for the structure. Progress was too slow in to keep up with the latest 12th century masonry fashion.When a new archetect came on board, new creative direction was given.
Changing her mind is Our Lady’s prerogative, I suppose. And though this massive cathedral was centuries in the baking, it’s eclectic tiers of stonework make it a multi-layered slice of public history.
Location scouting for an upcoming shoot when Mandy drove us by this Allen, Texas gem, built in 1887. Read about its history here…
Deliberately, each of his withered fingers wrapped around the arms of his wheelchair one by one until the old warrior’s claws trembled.
When Pastor Chuck began to pray, every head bowed and every eye closed. Except mine.
Theme: Linen by The Theme Foundry
