07.30.2004/12:56

At the Gallery
There was an art walk yesterday evening in downtown New Iberia, with several art galleries and retail stores displaying works by various artists. This is the Melissa Bonin Gallery, featuring works of the eponymous artist.

07.30.2004/09:51
Cool cats
When setting the summer thermostat, don't forget Fluffy.

07.29.2004/22:28
New worms
A new kind of worm discovered.

07.29.2004/12:47
Beer Pong
The National Beer Pong League.

07.29.2004/12:44
Not good with numbers
For people that genuinely can't handle numbers: dyscalculia.org.

07.29.2004/08:25
Health question
How can I alter my diet and lifestyle to have a chance to live long enough to see the Astros win a Wolrd Series?

07.29.2004/08:22
Old car manuals
Rich resource of info and material about vintage autos. Though the site's primary goal seems to be collecting old user's manuals, it also has sales brochures and promotion pieces, etc.

07.29.2004/08:19
Wire feat
"Though there is nothing novel about running transmission power lines underneath bodies of water, the New Orleans lines stand out because of their size -- they are 3,750 feet long -- and the challenge of threading the cables through the gooey muck that lies under the river."

07.28.2004/20:59
Pince me, I'm dreaming
Bionic crab.

07.28.2004/07:40
Butterflies
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
thebutterflysite.com

07.28.2004/07:38
Dead Zone
"The dead zone, an area of water in the Gulf of Mexico along Louisiana's coastline with very low oxygen content, increased in size to about 5,800 square miles this summer."

07.27.2004/16:11

Dragonfly
Sometimes we call this a dragonfly, sometimes a mosquito hawk. When I was a kid, we also called it a helicopter bug.

07.27.2004/11:35
Terrific bicycle photo
Really wonderful photo from Indonesia.

07.27.2004/07:55
Wet work
Nice photo of synchronized swimmers competing in New Orleans.

07.26.2004/18:31
Dangling, but not a participle
I hate it when this happens.

07.26.2004/09:35
Planned community
Levittown.

07.26.2004/08:44
Be a fatalist, it's easy!
There are at least two ways to become a fatalist. One is to engage a lengthy thought process that leads, after all, to a genuine academic and philosophical despair. Another is to be lazy.

07.26.2004/08:37
What, an unneeded highway?
"Two of the nation's largest trucking companies are questioning the value of extending I-69 from Indianapolis to Mexico, suggesting it would parallel existing routes and waste federal road dollars."

07.25.2004/21:20
Here, Spot!
"At 20 times the size of Earth, the largest sunspot observed since the fall solar storm onslaught is now pointed directly at Earth."

07.25.2004/21:14
Step by step
Walking Britain.

07.25.2004/13:17
The pit
The free speech pit for the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

07.25.2004/13:14
Buy this magazine
Slate is for sale.

07.24.2004/08:56

Watermelon Horizon
Another watermelon photo.

07.24.2004/08:39
Keep the mayor
Around our house, the only we recall the mayor of New Iberia is to recall her with fondness.

07.23.2004/07:28
Black bears
Please don't feed the bears.

07.22.2004/16:57
Rogue waves
Giant, menacing ocean waves in the news.

07.22.2004/13:05
All volunteer army
Be all that you can be: "The New Yorker magazine reports in its July 26th edition that members of all four branches of the U.S. military can get face-lifts, breast enlargements, liposuction and nose jobs for free -- something the military says helps surgeons practice their skills."

07.22.2004/12:59
Small steps
Get healthy bit by little bit.

07.22.2004/08:57

Khac Chi
The Vietnamese musical duo Khac Chi performs at the Sliman Theatre in New Iberia, LA, presented by the Iberia Parish Library and Friends of the Library, July 21, 2004.

07.21.2004/14:38
Twinkle, twinkle
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
oldchristmaslights.com

07.21.2004/14:35
Trumped in Indiana
"The Indiana Gaming Commission voted 4-2 to award the contract to operate the French Lick casino -- the state's 11th and final casino -- to Trump Indiana after nearly an hour of debate, mostly over Trump's financial problems."

07.21.2004/09:52

Les Miserables Rehearsal
Dress rehearsal for Les Miserables School Edition, produced by the Performing Arts Department of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and co-presented with the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA). Show dates: July 22-31, 2004. A page of about two dozen photos from the rehearsal is found here.

07.21.2004/08:40

UFO
University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus, window in Burke Hall.

07.20.2004/15:04
Proudly we hail
Peeps Spangled Banner.

07.20.2004/14:46
New bird?
"Manu mystery yellow bird."

07.20.2004/14:36
Ole!
Learn Spanish with pictures.

07.19.2004/15:06
Don't call out the swat team...
Flick instead of swatting.

07.19.2004/11:29
No cell, no bell
"The derailment of the plan to erect an antenna at Gentilly Baptist was praised by neighborhood residents. They told the zoning board the cell phone tower, disguised as a belfry, would pose a health risk and lower property values in the single-family residential district."

07.19.2004/11:16
Great new logo!
Google Images: newlogo.gif. And don't forget newlogo.jpg. Anyone for newlogo.png? Sort of makes you miss the old logo, doesn't it?

07.19.2004/11:05
Security fix
Small comfort for webmasters and the like: "The applications that will break with SP2 were essentially doing things wrong from a security perspective."

07.18.2004/17:34

Watermelon excavations
She uses a spoon, I use a table knife.

07.18.2004/16:20
Cybrary
"Now you can gaze at the bookshelves of many people in the comfort of your own home, with the knowledge that they put those there so that you can borrow them if you want."

07.18.2004/01:49
Sky high, sales low
"Ticket prices have gone crazy - very, very, very high, and nobody knows how to change that tide."

07.17.2004/09:28
Chat room
Last night I dreamed that we were staying someplace where the bathroom had two bathtubs, so that people could chat.

07.17.2004/09:26
Perfect record
Amazing! Glynn Cyprien completes his University of Lousiana at Lafayette head basketball job without ever having lost a game.

07.16.2004/12:15
You can't move that way
A bad move from chess great Bobby Fischer.

07.16.2004/12:13
Cut!
"...fit of madness..."

07.16.2004/12:11
Take me in
Anatomy of a Refugee Camp.

07.15.2004/08:38
Welcome back
"The man who legally changed his name to DotComGuy changed it back Tuesday - to Mitch Maddox."

07.14.2004/08:29
State of occupation
"Since the Spanish-American War, 1898, our Nation has been under prolonged occupation by the United States of America."

07.13.2004/13:21
Recycling solution
Get rid of it.

07.13.2004/08:52

D-Day Fleet
Depiction of invasion fleet, National D-Day Museum, New Orleans, LA.

07.13.2004/08:50

D-Day Museum
The National D-Day Museum, New Orleans, LA.

07.11.2004/21:13
Belly up to the bar code
"In the not-so-subtle tug of war of trade rules and technology standards, the globalization of the bar code represents a small erosion of American industrial hegemony."

07.11.2004/11:04

Buddha in the mist
Our front yard in July.

07.11.2004/11:03

What’s Back There?
From the upper veranda of The Manor, a wedding reception facility between New Iberia and Cade, LA.

07.11.2004/11:02

Susan and her mom
Susan with her mother Kay Hester, at the wedding of Kay's grandson and Susan's nephew Michael Boles.

07.10.2004/08:55
Swim with the fishes... er, mammals
Cool aquarium photo.

07.10.2004/08:16
Rural decay
People used to live on farms. Now they live in cities. And here's what has happened to what they left behind.

07.10.2004/08:13
Too much rain
"Rain has ruined the planting of several crops including cotton, soybeans, sweet potatoes, corn and sugar cane, according to Keith Normand, a St. Landry Parish Agronomy agent."

07.10.2004/08:05

Tree Growth
Crochet Road, Iberia Parish, LA.

07.9.2004/00:58
Gmail is great for list serves
I've been using a beta gmail account for a couple of weeks now, and I have discovered that it is great for reading list serve mail. With the labels, filtering and 1 GB of storage, it's perfect for reading lists of even pretty strong volume.

07.9.2004/00:51
Alien abduction
Alien abductions at the best price!

07.9.2004/00:46
Return from the aliens
Now here's something that doesn't come along all that often: something that might be worth watching on TV.

07.8.2004/14:42
Marcel Duchamp
Understanding Marcel Duchamp.

07.8.2004/14:35
Jolly Green Giant
"Visitors are flocking to see a huge model of Shrek at a scarecrow festival in west Wales - but what the birds make of the 18ft giant is anyone's guess."

07.8.2004/14:18

July Caladiums
It has rained so much this summer that our caladiums are very robust.

07.8.2004/03:13
Helmets on!
In Louisiana, you've only got a few weeks left to die in one particularly stupid way.

07.7.2004/09:44
Police deal goes through
In our town, the city police force is being replaced by an arrangement to have the sheriff patrol the city. The move is predicted to save the cash-strapped city over a million dollars a year. If this settles out with any degree of success, look for other communities to follow suit. Meanwhile, look for displaced city cops to file a suit.

07.7.2004/09:35
Roo the day
Aggressive kangaroos in the news.

07.6.2004/22:42
Dig!
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
undergroundhousing.com

(Don't neglect to scroll down and see the name of the publishing company...)

07.6.2004/17:33
Monster!
The Great Lake Monster.

07.5.2004/15:35
Spot news
Deadly leopards in the news.

07.5.2004/12:22
Zoo tragedy
"Zoo spokesman Gary Miers said the giraffe and ostrich turned up missing after all animals were counted Saturday morning."

07.5.2004/08:27
Fat cat
Fat cat in the news.

07.4.2004/18:02
Don't let me down
Abseilers in the news.

(and, if, like I did when I first read this, you are wondering, "What is an abseiler, exactly, anyway?" here is a definition)

07.4.2004/17:52
Spidey, large!
Saw Spider-Man 2 today. Good summer movie; lots of dramatic angst but also lots of action, the best bit of which may be Peter Parker's ill-fated pizza delivery mission in the early minutes of the film. It was also the first time into the new stadium-seating cinema house down the road from us in Lafayette. I think Abe Lincoln could have sat in the row in front of me with his stovepipe hat and not blocked my view! There is a similar cinema being built a few miles closer to us in the next year.

These new cinema houses are the movie industry's answer to the plethora of other choices, DVDs, HDTV, cable, etc., and do have a nice effect. It's hard to ignore the movie when it fills your field of vision and the sound is all around you. And, occasionally, there is content that comes along to justify the technology!

07.4.2004/17:49

Black Window
Downtown New Iberia, LA.

07.4.2004/17:47

Waste Anything But Time
Lobby of The Grand Theatre 16, Lafayette, LA.

07.3.2004/15:21

Transmission Fluid Leak
Civic Center Circle, New Iberia, LA.

07.2.2004/17:23
Small Town Guy
Nice piece in NY Times about Richard Russo and the kinds of small towns he writes about.

07.2.2004/11:36
Crash!
The Peekskill meteorite. Or, simply the Peekskill Meteorite Car.

07.2.2004/11:33
Bats!
Baby bats in the news.

07.2.2004/11:31
Godfather
Marlon Brando, R.I.P.

07.1.2004/20:56
Death delusion
Cotard's syndrome: "This delusion is usually expanded to the degree that the patient might claim that he can smell his own rotting flesh and feel worms crawling through his skin."

07.1.2004/10:22
Archaeological find
A major new archaeological find.