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Thursday, April 10, 2003

Twyla's Screen Test 8:33:06 PM    comment []

The lens adapter for my DX-4330 finally arrived. Here's a shot taken in my apartment's backyard using the wide-angle lens. The telephoto needs a little more light, it takes decent photos only at the "night" setting in today's gloomy light. It'll be a whole lot more fun with a pair of close-up lenses and some colorful food. 5:17:57 PM    comment []

I've mentioned on several comment threads that China cut off oil supplies to North Korea for 3 days but, having only heard the story on NPR once, could not give a source. Here is one, from the Christian Science Monitor. Diplomacy may not grab headlines like Rumsfeld stroking a 20,000 pound bunker buster, but it does produce its own effects: But in fact, for nearly two months, China has been quietly "getting North Korea's attention," as a well-placed Western source puts it - halting oil pipeline shipments to Pyongyang for three days due to "technical difficulties," and using its wide diplomatic channels to urge North Korea down a nonnuclear path. 3:22:35 PM    comment []

It's getting more difficult to link to audio on NPR, but you can email a link to yourself and then use it. For example, here is Daniel Schorr on Wednesday's All Things Considered, discussing WMDs. Easier to link is the BBC, with Donald Rumsfeld's thoughts on the same subject. Since these WMDs may have been imaginary in the first place, a good story will suffice if there is a lack of evidence. For example, they could have been smuggled into Syria (or France for that matter) because imaginary WMDs are easier to smuggle across borders than real ones. If you hide them in your head, you can take them anywhere. You don't even have to carry them there; you can astral-project them into the ground in Kansas or, if you're really good, into an alternate universe where they can dance the tango all night with eight-legged spidery reincarnations of Tito Puente. IWMDs are that versatile. Fortunately, they are not at all deadly - unless they are projected on you. I'm sure we'll find something tangible in Iraq, once the liberating armies have total control of the countryside. 4:24:22 AM    comment []

My weatherpixie isn't knee deep in water, but we've been under a flood watch for 3 days as the rains continue. Temperatures have stayed in a narrow range of numbers beginning with the digit "4". We don't freeze, which is good, but we don't get warm, which isn't. While it's dismal for humans, most of the spring plants have been loving it. The wisteria has been soaking it up and this year's blooms are the most spectacular I've ever seen in Carolina. Tulips are ready to explode into bloom within a day or two on landscapes that are already richly green. That is the most rewarding sight, after last year's drought left them sparsely brown and withered. So the peals of thunder outside are still more comforting than threatening. 3:43:35 AM    comment []