Maritime Monday for September 9th, 2013: Movies About Sailors Part II; Shape Ahoy! | gCaptain
Maritime Monday- movies about sailors part II. Thanks to gCaptain and MonkeyFist for putting all this together every week. There are lots of good old movies in the mix here. Pretty entertaining…
beautiful shells at the Boston Museum of Science
Museum Day Live! 2013 Registration.
This is a link to the Smithsonians’ Museum Day. Saturday 9/28. It’ll give you and a guest FREE admission to a museum you choose. Its not only the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.. There are links to museums all over the country. You can search by subject or by location.
In Houston, you can choose among the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Dunham Bible Museum, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Lawndale Art Center, and a favorite of mine in Galveston the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig and Museum. There is the tall ship Elissa right there too, if you do happen to hit the Ocean Star Museum, you can make it a maritime day and enjoy lunch on the waterfront watching the cruise ships dock.
Arriving at sunrise on the crewboat to the Global 1200
Riviera Maya near Cozumel April 2013
I was in Mexico for a conference (moving overseas by International Living). It was great but not nearly enough time to enjoy these beautiful beaches;-)
stormclouds and rainbows from the 8506
flying over this ship on the way to the LOOP
I got a few decent shots while flying in from the rig last hitch. This was a tanker on the way to the LOOP.
Ship departing SW Pass
Here’s another photo for the “sea” challenge of the week. I have TONS of these 😉 The sea is my first love and I am out there most of the time. Just don’t have a decent camera most days. I was lucky this time, I got to sit by the window of the helicopter on the way in last time and got some decent shots.
Maritime Monday for September 2nd, 2013: Movies About #@!!%* Sailors; Part I | gCaptain
Here’s another post from gcaptains Monkey Fist with a new listing of maritime movies. This series focusing on the sailors themselves. There looks to be some good ones in there… Captains Courageous starring Spencer Tracy, Captain Horatio Hornblower starring Gregory Peck, even a musical- Anchors Aweigh starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. Oldies but Goodies. Enjoy…
Anchorage at sunset in Singapore August 2012
This is a listing of all the past Prometheus Awards. They’re awarded for the best Libertarian science fiction of the year. I’ve read and enjoyed quite a few. I like books that make you THINK and these sure fit the bill! I’ve already read a lot of these books and seeing the list now makes me want to read some more of them 🙂 Some of my favorites on the list (I didn’t even know about the list when I read them)…
2009- Little Brother- Cory Doctorow
2011- Animal Farm- Hall of Fame- George Orwell
2009- Lord of the Rings- Hall of Fame- J.R.R. Tolkien
1998- Time Enough for Love- Hall of Fame- Robert Heinlein
1984- Farenheit 451- Hall of Fame- Ray Bradbury
1983- Atlas Shrugged- Hall of Fame- Ayn Rand
LoneStarCon 3 – 71st Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas.
Jeeze, sorry I’m so late on this one. I got the news in an email from the Advocates for Self Government but I didn’t really get around to reading it til this morning. If anyone is in San Antonio, they can probably still get there in time to check it out in person.
If I wasn’t getting ready to go back to work already, I would LOVE to go to this event. I love reading, especially science fiction! I’ve never been to anything like this but I bet it would be loads of fun. Film festival, exhibits, Hugo award ceremony, astronaut to meet, etc… Its also being covered online so if you can’t make it to San Antonio, you can still see what’s going on.
These Patterns Move, But It’s All an Illusion | Collage of Arts and Sciences.
These are really cool. It makes me happy to look at things like this. I love this kind of art. I especially liked the one here with the little bubbly things and the one with the circles on the blue background. I just like the designs of these things and the fact that they appear to be moving is an extra perk 🙂
Interesting article in Smithsonian…
pretty cool! amazing how much progress those guys made back then and then we lost all that knowledge for hundreds of years 🙁
Song Premiere: David Bromberg – Keep on Drinkin’.
This just came in on an email from Utne Reader. Good song. I liked it 😉
Maritime Monday for August 26th, 2013: Part VII; The Final Reel | gCaptain
This is the final installation of the series on maritime movies that gcaptain has been putting out in their maritime monday emails. They have sent out a huge listing of movies with pictures and short blurbs about the movies. I’ll have to go back when I get time and post the first ones since they came out before I started this blog (or you can go to gcaptain). If you’re at all interested in film, you might want to check this out, there are some good ones in there. Enjoy 🙂
Art Created From Undocumented Immigrants’ Discarded Objects – Politics – Utne Reader.
I really would have to see the art to say anything about it. I have been to museums before, looked at a piece of ‘art’ they had there and said to myself, “WTF”??? I really don’t see what makes a simple black or white painted canvas “art”, or at least what makes that art good enough to cost thousands of dollars to hang in a museum.
My idea of art is probably not the official definition but I think art is something that creates a response in the audience. I expect that this art does. According to the article, it has already pissed off at least one right winger (blogger Debbie Schlussel-in case anyone here follows her- I never heard of her til now).
I think its a good thing to stir up emotions, to make people feel, hopefully to eventually make them THINK. That is what I am hoping to do with this blog. I was glad to see this article in Utne Reader since I think the US-Mexico border is something we really need to THINK about as a nation. I have never really agreed with the whole idea of keeping people in/out of a place. I think ALL people should be able to travel freely. Of course, that will get me vilified by most of the people in the USA. I am not really sure about the whole job/employment situation as to: do the immigrants (illegal) take away jobs or lower the wages for those of us already here? I have seen studies that show the illegal immigrants put in just as much or more than they take out of the system. I DO think the major problem most ordinary people have with immigrants (especially illegal ones) is the fact that we have a huge welfare state now and so they get all kinds of ‘freebies”. My solution would be to stop the original problem first, which would be the welfare state. This country was NOT intended to work that way, its founding principles will not support that outlook. We are supposed to be a country of FREE men, that is incompatible with any kind of welfare state! How can you be dependent and free at the same time?
Hope to get some comments on this post since I really have more to say but I’ve got to run off to class this morning. More later (maybe).
on the way to Boston, watching the sun set over the clouds
2013 Utne Media Awards: The Winners.
This is one of my all time favorite magazines. Their motto used to be ‘The best of the alternative press”, now it is “cure ignorance”. I love it! They always have the most interesting articles, reviews of books, music, movies, etc. I don’t usually agree a whole lot with their writers point of view, but I always enjoy reading it anyway. (That’s a compliment)
Music Review: Stars and Satellites – Media – Utne Reader
Check it out, some cool music 🙂
Night on the river walk
Cosmic Portraits Created From Hubble Space Telescope Images | Collage of Arts and Sciences.
This is a pretty cool way to create interesting artworks. I thought some of the pictures reminded me of Salvador Dali’
I’ve been playing with my new camera
Where I’ve been working lately…