Over the winter I wrote a post titled A Tale of Two Trees, which was inspired by Bradford pear trees I saw at neighboring commercial properties in State College. Planting a Bradford pear is a mistake, but one of the properties (I called this one Nimh) made lemonade with their lemons while the other (I called this one Oz) [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 28, 2009
The Art of Noticing People
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to be more observant. More specifically, I have been doing my best not to ignore the people around me.
I have an active mind, so it is easy for me to be physically present somewhere but miles away mentally. It bothers me that I am not more [...]
April 27, 2009
PSU Blue-White Game: 2009
On Saturday afternoon I attended the PSU Blue-White game, which is a spring football scrimmage. The weather was spectacular. I arrived at Beaver Stadium well before the game started. After contemplating the best seating location I settled on a spot near the corner of the endzone. I was hoping to get some nice shots of goal [...]
April 25, 2009
A Morning on the Links
This morning I met Adam, Chris, and Julian at Tussey Mountain for a little par 3 golf (in my case par fore is more appropriate). I am not a golfer. This is the third time I have played the Tussey par 3 course. After an optimistic start on the first hole my golf game descended [...]
April 23, 2009
Blog Comments
I find it very interesting to review the comments that are left on my blog. They fall into three major categories.
1. Automatically deleted spam.
I have a spam filter that automatically discards the most blatant spam. I see a total of how many spam comments were deleted, but I never see the actual posts.
2. Preserved spam.
I have [...]
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