My seat mate is in for the longhaul

Weird self-portrait

Taken on a plane as sunlight diffused through window. I was not expecting this but it looks cool.

Bagpipe Jam

In Halifax, Nova Scotia.

My Apple pie

This sign was on a railroad car

Apparently this is a problem in Wisconsin.

Ever since he and Lois married, Superman really let himself go

So which is it?

These two ads popped up side by side on one website. I would have
taken either ad by itself at face value for the message it carried
("Allstate can save $468 on average" OR "Allstate can save $348 on
average"). But together they strike me as meaningless. Still it's
better than those ads with the gecko.
They're just plain stupid.

Doo wop

This group (whose name I didn't get--sorry) was performing outside the
Metrpolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Great harmonies and vocal
arrangements. They had a CD for sale, which Tracey wanted. I said the
group would still be there when we came out so we could get it then.
But, of course, they were gone by that time.

A rude tomato

My brother grew this tomato. We think it's a new variety and needs a
new name. We just can't decide between "Big Boy" or "Beefcake."

More desk toys

My infamous knitting colleague left yesterday in prepartion for a move
with her husband. She left behind her own set of desk toys. I'm
thinking with these and the ones below (yesterday's post), we have the
beginnings of an interesting collection. A tourist attraction maybe?
Or at least a garage sale.

Toy Shrine

These belong to our company's Graphic Design and Show Production
Coordinator. Everyone should have something like this.

Patchwork landscape

I've flown for years (not on my own power unfortunately) and I've often seen this patchwork landscape out the window. Why is the land parceled out like this, and what accounts for the various colors? It's the kind of question I've never asked anyone because I always think the reply will be preceded with, "Are you kidding? EVERYBODY knows the answer to that!"

Water (I hope) and not jet fuel

Irony

(In case you can't read it, it says STOP Vandalism)

Panoramic view

I'm trying Panoramatic, an iPhone app that stitches together photos into... well, a panorama. On this initial try, it did an excellent job with this view from the sofa.

Saving to the circular file cabinet

There's the old joke about unwanted papers being "saved in the circular file cabinet," which, of course, meant the trash can. I just noticed that when using GMail on the iPhone, I can't delete a message like usual. Instead it gets "Archived" but it shows the picture of the trash can. Art imitating life? (This doesn't happen in other mail apps as far as I can tell, just GMail.)

Great food, great pub

If you live anywhere near Marbledale, CT, you owe it to yourself to check out the White Horse Country Pub and Restaurant. It's in the location of the former Marbledale Pub, itself a longtime landmark of the area. Relaunched by Englishman John Harris, the building has been completely gutted and remade into a British pub. And the food--with an English flair--is excellent. I had the Chicken Pot Pie (seen here), embellished with the pub's logo white horse. Not typical Summer fare I know, but delicious nonetheless. We're already making plans to go back.

Wherever you are

Tracey and I took the Bridgeport Ferry to Port Jefferson, L.I. for a
day trip. Enroute I wanted to check whether I had turned off the Map
feature on my iPhone. I hadn't, and it was still tracking our location
somwhere in the middle of Long Island Sound.

David Bowie's son?

Alex got fitted for contact lenses today. On the way home he said one eye was blurry. My wife looked and saw this, so they of course went back to the eye place. The doctor took one look and instantly realized what had happened. She had dilated the eyes of the patient before him, and must have had a tiny bit of mydriatic residue on her hand. His blue eyes are ultra-sensitive, hence the Bowie look, which I think is kind of cool.

Holographic presenters

These two ghostly presenters were live somwhere in the convention
center, and could see and interact with us. Pretty freaky.