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Lucky Balloon
They glowed like giant orange flares. I thought they might signal the beginning of the full moon party. We kept watching them ascend into the sky, and waited for them to arc. They moved much too slow to be fireworks or flares and instead kept climbing higher and higher unimpeded.
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The story behind this series of photos was originally written on January 12th, 2008 and can be read at NoPeanutButter.com.
Edit: This is a .gif and is supposed to play in the Dashboard, dammit!
Dean Allen, of the beautifully set Textism.com, writes:
This happens several times a day: I find myself at Youtube or Vimeo or Brightcove or wherever, begin watching something interesting, and immediately start looking for a way to put that in a corner of my screen so I can continue working or doing, um, research, and cast my eyes back to it whenever interest demands I do so. This evidently can’t be done using any of the popular embedded video gear, so I end up resizing the browser window (which results in layout chaos) and opening up a fresh window to resume what I was doing before. This is lame, this is broken.
This is totally lame. The rumor is that Apple is working on something for iTunes 8, coming soon…
[Embedded video] is the opiate of the masses.
After playing around with Flickr for the first time yesterday, I am much more enamored than I thought I would be. (If one wanted, one could buy me a Flickr Pro account for my birthday.)
I went ahead and posted these 47 black and white photos I took last Christmas while in Thailand with my girlfriend. There are 59 in the set, but I ran into the bandwidth limit. Check out the pics at Flickr, or, see them as they originally appeared, on my travelblog, NoPeanutButter.com.
Who the fuck is this?/ Pagin’ me at 5:46 in the mornin’/ crack of dawn an’ now I’m yawnin - wipe the cold out my eye/ See who’s this pagin me - and why