digital abstraction from the depthcore website; detail of a larger image
July 2007
Newish Adrien75 Tune
Belatedly found that Adrien75 had posted a new track, "MellonBallBounce," on his mp3 page. Worth a listen as always.
Update: He also has a MySpace page.
Updated Animation Log
Spent some time yesterday getting my animation log up to date. It's not really a blog, more an archive in blog form. All of the content appeared at my Digital Media Tree blog at one time or another (from late 2003 to the present).
Bush and Frogs
I posted a comment to Digby's blog questioning the "Bush blowing up frogs" story, told by an ostensible childhood friend of Bush's and frequently cited by the Democratically inclined as evidence of Bush's early sadism. My comment appears to have been deleted (maybe I should have announced my left wing bona fides first).
I grew up in Midland, TX where springtime frogs were an interesting desert anomaly and someone was always telling stories about someone they knew blowing them up with firecrackers.
I'm not saying Bush isn't sadistic but this is weak anecdotal evidence--there are better examples.
Update: Digby kindly responded to my email and thought my comment's disappearance might have been a Haloscan error.
After We're Gone
What would happen to the Earth if every human suddenly disappeared?
Alan Weisman has written a book about it, which I can't wait to read.
One of the things I often envision is the animals we've moved all over the world regenerating in new environments. Like the Japanese snow monkeys thriving in South Texas. All the inhabitants of zoos could potentially proliferate and create completely new ecosystems.
Weisman concludes that the planet will survive even if we annihilate ourselves but suggests we can make that demise less inevitable by having one child per family, to get the population back to 19th Century levels. Good luck! Human nature is going to interfere there, and we already know fundies kill for babies (and to keep women birthin' them).