Photo-a-day: 365 Sept/Oct

Day 190: "The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building."
-David Eagleman

Day 191: "Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
-Aleister Crowley

Day 192: “Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.”
― Jonathan Goldstein

Day 193: "Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
-Ernest Holmes

Day 194: "Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
-Edmund Burke

Day 195: Queen Bee - Resurrection of Joan of Arc

"Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast."
-Joan of Arc

Day 196: This kulfi was sooo good, I had to duplicate it (several times). It makes a sweet wallpaper.

Day 197: Broken Star
...

"Basta, basta de llamarme así
ya voy a ir, voy a subir
cuando me toque a mi..
mientras te canto esta canción
en tu voz, en tu honor, en la voz
a los que esten durmiendo aqui.

Y juro, que la cara voy a dar
cada vez, cada vez que alguien te nombre
aqui o allá.

Basta, basta de llamarme así
ya voy a ir, voy subir
cuando me toque a mi
mientras te canto esta canción,
en tu voz, en tu honor, en la voz
a lo que esten durmiendo allí
y juro, que la cara voy a dar
cada vez, cada vez que alguien te nombre
aqui o alla."

-Lyrics for 'Basta De Llamarme Así 'by
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, from Vasos Vacios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzK3gAxckfU

Day 198: “Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”
-Mary Ann Evans

Day 199: Spiral Vortex of Doom - Where tortillas go to die

"Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today."
-Thomas Gray

Day 200: Gorilla Boudoir

"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."
-Marilyn Monroe

Day 201: The crystal in the window was shooting the most amazing rainbows across the floor...

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."
-Lord Byron

Day 202: Alien Planet

“Morning sir, or madam, or neuter," the thing said. "This your planet, is it?"
"Well, er. I suppose so," Newt said.
"Had it long, have we sir?"
"Not personally. I mean, as a species, about half a million years. I think."
The alien exchanged glances with its colleague.
"Been letting the old acid rain build up, haven't we sir," it said. "Been letting ourselves go a bit with the old hydrocarbons, perhaps?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you, sir, but your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir."
"Oh, dear," said Newt.
"We'll overlook it on this occasion, sir."
The smaller alien walked past the car. "CO2 level up nought point five percent," it rasped, giving him a meaningful look. "You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?”
― Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 'Good Omens'

Day 203: Sooo...recreating my baby photos with my baby. Yeah, weird (what did you expect? ), and so much harder than you'd think...

I don't even use Tide. Had to buy a box just for the shoot.

Day 204: One of the last warm mid-days methinks...

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

Day 205: Tribute to Autumn

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Day 206:

“And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tale when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Day 207:
"Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream."
-Tom Waits

Day 208: Oil Rigs and Paddleboards

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
-Mother Teresa

(As a funny side note, the Gandhi quote had the following tags: faith, you, must. Reminded me of Yoda: Faith you must have... )

Day 209: Half Moon Bay

The beach was a-mazing! I love love love the ocean, and miss it when I go away. Beautiful day, perfect weather. The sand patterns were absolutely fantastic, like these sand scales.

Day 210: Downtown Palo Alto - Microchip Egg

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Day 211: Google headquarters. Awesome. Yes, I'm a nerd.

“I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Something Under the Bed is Drooling

Day 212: Nevada

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
-Pablo Picasso

Hmmm...just noticed that the baby foot hanging there looks like *something* else... Whoops

Day 213: Eagle People at the Hoover Dam

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Day 214

Day 215: This was in a door that I saw today...

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”
― Jim Morrison

Day 216:
“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”
-Albert Einstein