Oct 052012
 

While at Grand Teton last week, I happened upon a stand of Aspen trees that had turned a most remarkably bright shade of yellow (my timing was uncharacteristically good in that respect). So, the thing to do was to take pictures of it. I was hardly alone in that… I counted about two dozen other photographers getting different shots of the same thing. So, either I chose correctly in thinking that this was the right sort of thing to photograph, or I was just succumbing to herdthink. Shrug. In any event, I got a bunch of photos that I think are reasonably good. The big question is what, if anything, to do with ’em…

 Posted by at 10:22 pm
Oct 052012
 

Shockwaves are awesome. The Small Diameter Bomb delivers.


A GBU-39/B small diameter bomb strikes a BM-21 rocket launcher during a test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in 2005. SDB was integrated on the F-15E Strike Eagle first, and is being delivered to combat units for use in the war on terrorism.

A small diameter bomb hits an A-7 parked inside a concrete aircraft shelter during a test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. SDB is an autonomous, 250 pound class weapon that can be used in adverse weather and has a standoff range of more than 50 nautical miles.

 Posted by at 1:22 pm
Oct 052012
 

Leave it to the US FedGuv to produce legislation that just plain *sounds* creepy…

H.R. 6566

…to provide guidance and coordination for mass fatality planning, and for other purposes.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act’.

The basic idea seems reasonable enough… people get twitchy about piles of dead bodies lying about, so maybe we aughtta have some sort of plan in the event we wind up with piles of dead bodies lying about. It just comes across as slightly creepifyin’, though.

 Posted by at 10:30 am