Surprise! Or maybe, not so much of one.

February Flowers

Finally, here are the 2006 Flower and Garden Show photographs, as promised. ETA: These are all the still photos I took, so there are a lot of them. But they're thumbnailed and everything, so there's no shock horror of bandwidth if you go look. They're photos of anything I found interesting, particularly cool, particularly tacky, or wanted to remember for later. So that means you get some product shots; those are things I'd like to buy at some point. ^_^ And yes, I shot pictures of every greenhouse set up at the show.

It's supposed to be very cold the next few nights, so I've set up my little 40-watt garden heater around the strange palm-tree-like plant in the south garden. The ground in that section didn't warm up above freezing all day, and we've still got traces of snow from the quarter-inch or so we got a few days ago, so I can't even guess what -8C is going to do to it. I hope the tree survives; the base of its trunk is reasonably sheltered and now has a tiny heater made just for this sort of thing, so here's hoping.

Anyway, I just thought I'd put that up. I suspect I'm putting up too many pictures. I dunno. But this also made me laff, so now you get it:


Stair, n00b

And I promised a photo of the peek-a-boo view we suddenly have of the lake and south Kenmore; it has indeed turned out to be a wintertime-only view, as this picture clearly shows.


Well Lookie Thar, Martha

Tuesday's token: 0.1
Wednesday's miles: 2.5
Today's (Thursday's) miles: 3.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 605.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 145.4
Miles to Lothlórien: 320.9

The neurolinguistics paper I just finished - the one that was actually a chapter of a book - gave me some ideas that tie in to some older ideas I've had about language processing going back to undergrad. I'm thinking of setting up a dev environment again so that I can try some things. I'll have to re-learn old IPC stuff if I really want to do this right, though. Today's paper: "Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials; A means for exploring the neurocognition of second-language processing," a paper I mostly want to read because I'm so bad at second languages. ^_^