Costa Concordia

The anniversary of the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia was a couple of days ago and recently there was a story on the recovery effort on 60 Minutes. That made me think that there had to be some pictures of the wreck on Flickr.

Beautiful shot by Christian Lupi


The view from an aeroplane by "Toledo."


A view from shore by Simona Fuso


An elevated view from the island by Harald Thiele


A head on shot by Mike Boyd


You can see a larger gallery I put together here.

Clever Photograph

New David Bowie Song

It's called Where are we Now? I like it. A lot.



Holy shitballs, AND a new Tom Waits song is released. What an amazing day!

Battle Scarred

During our trip to Tybee Island Melanie and I visited Fort Pulaski. Fort Pulaski was the site of an artillery battle during the Civil War. Union troops forced the Confederates inside to surrender after using superior artillery weapons. A portion of the fort's wall collapsed and the commander was afraid the Union weapons were eventually going to ignite the fort's stores of gun powder. The panorama below shows the portion of the wall that collapsed and battle damage to the right and left of the rebuilt portion of the wall. The brighter red bricks are from the rebuilding done by Union troops once they took over the fort. The damage done to the surrounding wall can easily be seen. Actual leftover damage from the Civil War! That is the coolest historical thing I've seen since Jeff and I went to the Ford Theater Museum and saw the coat Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated.

An article on the Battle for Fort Pulaski can be found here.

After the Storm

Some nice light outside the library this morning after the rain stopped.

Vintage Christmas

Since the holiday is almost here how about a few vintage Christmas pictures from the 1960s and 1970s from Flickr?

1968


1970


1970


1967


1968


Me, my mom and dad in 1968

The Founding Fathers

They always help.

Picture Picture

Today's old timey view out the window at work.

Fuck Mike Huckabee

If you search "Fuck Huckabee" on Twitter right now the results are interesting.

Driving in Russia is Insane

I guess cars in Russia tend to have dashboard cameras because there is a lot of insurance fraud over there. Also, people appear to not obey traffic laws as strictly as we do in the good ole USA. What does that give you? The funniest video of the year.