Things Thomas Sibley cares enough about to post. Want to comment on something you see here? Email me at hi @ zulutango.org. Please mind the gaps.Tumblr (3.0; @tsibley)http://blog.tsibley.net/<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l67bwvhAcL1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Summer rain</b></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/864737071http://blog.tsibley.net/post/864737071Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:42:42 -0400<a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/recipe-of-the-day-cornbread/?src=tp">Recipe of the Day: Cornbread</a>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/848641521http://blog.tsibley.net/post/848641521Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:06:12 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4djgzaINH1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>View from Mt. Norwottuck:</strong></p> <p>This grassy cliff is my favorite spot, just a slight ways down from the top and now hidden behind overgrowth. Best <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1024/4720396703_0910bf166d_o.jpg">viewed a bit larger</a>.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/722389137http://blog.tsibley.net/post/722389137Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:05:00 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20pacemaker-t.html?src=tp">A Pacemaker Wrecks a Family's Life</a>: <p>A heartwrenching story about medical overtreatment.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/721292686http://blog.tsibley.net/post/721292686Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:42:00 -0400<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3vxri02gR1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>A room with a view</b></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/689372739http://blog.tsibley.net/post/689372739Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:56:39 -0400<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3vparXEm41qz4yng.jpg"/></p> <p>When I moved just a few weeks ago, I decided to toss the pair of Columbia hiking boots above.  I kept them around for a bit past their lifetime, even though I replaced them at the beginning of the year with a pair of above the ankle Keens that still have cushioning and don’t have holes in them.</p> <p>The low-tops above served my feet very well over the past four years, hiking in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania and the steeper hills of the Taconics, multi-day snowshoeing in Vermont and Massachusetts, walking the alleys and mountains alike in Morocco, clambering up and down volcanoes and through the muddy bush in New Zealand, and doing fieldwork on the apron of the mountains of Montana.  I knew they were shot though when stepping in a shallow puddle meant the bottom of my foot was now wet.</p> <p>The new boots are real nice, but I’m definitely going to have to replace these great, wear-everywhere low tops.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/688913053http://blog.tsibley.net/post/688913053Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:13:00 -0400bootstravelphotos<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1k7c3Ywyd1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I had no idea that the eastern seaboard was now open to exploratory gas/oil drilling.  Yikes.  Not Off My Coast.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/554491885http://blog.tsibley.net/post/554491885Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:45:38 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l19kv0ywXm1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Cat’s cradle:</b> <p>Better <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trs/4542099455/sizes/l/">viewed large</a>.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/540168535http://blog.tsibley.net/post/540168535Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:04:09 -0400<p><a href="http://thomas-sibley.com/images/blog/birthday-temps.png"><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l15pzqiOAC1qz4yng.png"/></a></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/534923080http://blog.tsibley.net/post/534923080Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:05:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0f2nnYQ3I1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b></b></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/498686560http://blog.tsibley.net/post/498686560Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:43:01 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0bjux8Z8c1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Fayerweather Hall, c1894 and 2010:</b> <p>Better <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trs/4487732928/sizes/o/">viewed large</a>.<br/><br/> Built in 1894, Fayerweather Laboratory (as it was then known) housed the physics and chemistry departments of Amherst College. Nearly 120 years later, Fayerweather Hall still stands, the exterior much the same as it was back then.<br/><br/> The 1890 photo appears to be taken on a 4x5 view camera, which allows the photographer to shift and tilt perspective. I took the bottom photo with a digital SLR, leaving me without the benefits of changing perspective.<br/><br/> More information on Fayerweather Hall:<br/>     - <a href="http://digitalamherst.org/items/show/182" rel="nofollow">digitalamherst.org/items/show/182</a><br/>     - <a href="http://www.amherstiana.org/campus/fayerweather.html" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.amherstiana.org/campus/fayerweather.html">www.amherstiana.org/campus/fayerweather.html</a></a></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/494064447http://blog.tsibley.net/post/494064447Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:03:42 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/nyregion/29climb.html?src=tp">Conquering 46-Part Goal, Peak by Icy Peak</a>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/481930656http://blog.tsibley.net/post/481930656Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:18:14 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzva7ovhbe1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b></b></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/473785369http://blog.tsibley.net/post/473785369Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:14:13 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzqt5vqRyG1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Baltimore:</b> <p>Better <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trs/4456741101/sizes/o/">viewed large</a>.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/468179508http://blog.tsibley.net/post/468179508Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:14:27 -0400“Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we’re supposed to eat less of.”<br/><br/> - <em><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/09/business/economy/pyramid.jpg"/><br/> Read the rest of the <a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/why-a-big-mac-costs-less-than-a-salad/?src=tptw">NYTimes blurb</a>.</em>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/438954887http://blog.tsibley.net/post/438954887Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:14:19 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytosnwSyQ1qz4yngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>American Gothic</b>: Scanned from a 4x5 negative. Better <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trs/4409384954/sizes/l/">viewed large</a>. See the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trs/4409384954/sizes/o/">original upload</a> (still not full resolution!) for finer detail.</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/428667952http://blog.tsibley.net/post/428667952Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:23 -0500<a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/essay-15/?src=tp">Essay: How Not to Depict a War</a>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/421067547http://blog.tsibley.net/post/421067547Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:24:29 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/26/sports/olympics/20100226-olysymphony.html?src=tp">Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical</a>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/421067562http://blog.tsibley.net/post/421067562Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:24:29 -0500<p><img src="http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/iceland-beautiful.jpg" class="photo" height="375" width="500"/></p> <p>I <a href="http://blog.thomas-sibley.com/post/384781409/icelandic-house">posted a photo of a house</a> yesterday.  A little sleuthing this morning turned up it’s location as the island <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vestmann_archipel_topographic_map-fr.svg">Elliðaey</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar">Vestmannaeyjar</a> archipelago just off the southern coast of Iceland.  What looks like an Icelandic tourism site has <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heimaslod.is%2Findex.php%2FElli%25C3%25B0aey&sl=auto&tl=en">more information and photos (translated)</a>.  Here it is as seen on Google Maps:</p> <p><iframe width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=63.46586,+-20.175469&sll=63.424303,-20.278875&sspn=0.013651,0.038581&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=63.46679,-20.176499&spn=0.004793,0.010707&z=16&output=embed"></iframe><br/><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=63.46586,+-20.175469&sll=63.424303,-20.278875&sspn=0.013651,0.038581&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=63.46679,-20.176499&spn=0.004793,0.010707&z=16" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small></p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/385660879http://blog.tsibley.net/post/385660879Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:24:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxpjtpKoI31qz4yngo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Wouldn’t living there for a few months be just awesome?</p>http://blog.tsibley.net/post/384781409http://blog.tsibley.net/post/384781409Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:49:01 -0500iceland