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And Now For Something Completely Different…
08 months ago
Maybe this isn’t completely different since I’ve posted recently about selling our MINI and buying our Infiniti, but I personally think these are a different animal altogether.
Here is a sampling of cars we’ve spotted recently, with our phone cameras available. Normally photographing these things in the wild doesn’t happen because we’re too busy pointing at them to grab our iPhones.
Feel free to caption them however you wish. I think I’m too close to the subject and thus captions are just beyond me.
Enjoy.
Leave Room For Nature: The Georgia Guidestones
01 year ago
Georgia Guidestones : America's Stonehenge
I’ve wanted to see the Georgia Guidestones since I first heard of them years ago. If you’ve never heard of them, this is the gist of it. Elberton, Georgia is the granite capital of the world. An anonymous group of conservationists from outside the state commissioned the work under the pseudonym R.S. Christian, and it was erected on March 22 1980 at the highest point of Elbert County. The project involves a time capsule buried six feet underneath an explanatory tablet to the East of the guidestones and the guidestone monument itself, which is a made up of four upright granite slabs, a center column, and a captstone. The upright slabs and capstone hold 10 guiding statements for a better world, translated into multiple languages, both modern and ancient. Starting North, going clockwise, the languages are Hebrew, Sanskrit, Hindi, Chinese, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Arabic, English, Babylonian Cuneiform, Russian, Swahili, Classical Greek, And Spanish.
Time likes the word “Googleville” too!
01 year ago
Greenville loves Google!
Happy Easter! We’ve spent the day watching my uncle teach my nieces to golf. In one afternoon they are already better at it than I am at even one minute of put-put. Better even than I am at Wii golf. I understand that it’s all in the wrists, and I have wrists, but my wrists are permanently at odds with golf clubs.
While reinstalling Diablo II on my computer (don’t ask me why) Will discovered that WYFF has a video up alerting us to this Time Magazine article about Google Fiber. If you have an interest in either the Greenville community or the Google Fiber project, it’s worth viewing both. The Time article features Greenville’s effort almost exclusively. No matter what happens, I’m exceedingly proud of our town for pulling this together. From everything I’ve read, Aaron von Frank is to thank for leading this endeavor. Will and I both work in the tech industry downtown and have never met him, but I hope one day we can thank him personally for doing such an amazing job. The concept was simple, perfectly relevant to the challenge, and superbly executed.
Our hats are off to everyone who helped with the planning and all those who twirled a glow stick. Greenville is in your debt.
Googleville!
01 year ago
Google On Main!
Why haven’t we posted about this before?!
It’s old news to many now (mostly because it was announced a month ago) that Google is going to provide ultra-highspeed Internet access in one or more trial communities. Their marketing documents claim the access will be available in 1 Gbps speeds and beyond which sounds too good to be true!
Greenville, G-Vegas, Beloved Home is vying to be Google’s fiber test-ground.