Carl Setzer

Reading headlines like this chills me, compelling me to stop and read: “ Girl, 7, airlifted to hospital after accidental hanging ”. I connect solidly: my child is 7. With all the random injuries I sustained as a child, seems rather amazing at times that I avoided becoming such a statistic. While my thoughts and prayers are with this family as they navigate this horror, my attention wanders.   As often happens with stories such as this, there is a burst of information, of “story”, which then vanishes from the public eye forever. It is likely there will be no resolution. In this age of data, and the near limitless ability to present information, would there be value in news orgs following up, finding the end of this story? With our ability to tag and link coalescing this thread into one story would be easy. That, to me, is a key power in this new medium.   Of course, I tend to play both sides and, thus, wonder if there is value of just having the burst an...

A prayer attributed to one of my favorite spiritual guides.  The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi   "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.  O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen."

Perhaps I’m the only Macfan that’s not gaga over the iPad. It’s an interesting idea, but I’m just not sold on the concept. For what it offers, I think it would be valuable (to me) at a much lower price-point. Say, < $100. Then I could conceive. Heck, if it were $200 I would be sorely, SORELY tempted. But not $500. It doesn’t offer me much more than my iPhone. And I almost never use my Sony eReader (if the Mac version of the desktop software actually worked with it, then I might use it more). Anyway, if the iPad had handwriting recognition, or could do more with photo editing...I don’t know.

Over the winter I noticed the congregation of crows off around 405 near the Beardslee exit on Bothell. Masses of them, swarming, much like starlings, without the elegance. As the weather has warmed up, this feathered city has dissipated. Trees have been in bloom for quite some time. This, too, is a delight. Most all trees are at least in bud, the majority laden with blossoms. A few stragglers remain. I noticed bees a few weeks back. True honey bees. And I'm will not mistake a hornet for a bee. Our weather has embraced a Spring mania. Rain, followed by sleet, fading to hail, with some snow for good measure. Intermixed with random bursts of sunshine. Life in the Northwest under the shadow of the covergence zone.

Yesterday I received a message from Schmap , an online travel guide service asking to use one of my Flickr shots for their Seattle guide. Reading through the terms, I noticed this wasn’t compensated, but as I am not a professional, my first thought was “who cares?” Turns out there are many (see here , and here to start). They aren’t going to get filthy rich off of my one shot. However, after a bit of research, in their business model, they only use free photos. And with that comes the real question: am I contributing to the demise of the professional photographer by taking part? This sort of effort does bring up many issues with the technological age we find ourselves in. Does this put photographers out of work? Or does it just kill off the mediocre? Which is “bad”? I’m not sure the ethics here, and have not made a choice one way or another. I’d love to hear what others thing off all this. Have any of your used Schmap before? Anything si...

via smashingmagazine.com Nice to see that photography still holds claim to fun. I might need to block some time for exploring this. Posted via web from Infernally Curious

via awkwardfamilyphotos.com There is a reason that this hairstyle that has gone extinct. Posted via web from Infernally Curious

Just had to delete a bunch of comment spam from my Blogger blog . It seems they’ve found a way to override the word verification. Perhaps someone is manually posting. Anyway, I don’t read Japanese and the links looked, uh, suspicious. Wretched, infernal spammers! Posted via email from Infernally Curious

It seems fitting that we remember the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on this day where we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, as his message is timeless and immortal. Posted via email from Infernally Curious

via globalsociology.com The Global Sociology Blog has pulled some graphics from The Guardian. Tells an interesting story about global military spending. Posted via web from Infernally Curious

I'm something of a news junkie. Ok, to put it better, I spend way too much time on any given day following news items. Following links like some follow shiny objects. And I get way too worked up...WAY...over certain items. These are things I have no control over. In Franklin-Covey parlance, they are outside my sphere of influence. Things that I should NOT invest ANY emotional energy into. Finding a way to spend less time, more focused time is paramount. My time is becoming more constrained with each passing day, or so it seems. Certainly, I need to stop reading the comments, as, for the most part, they're inane. Of course, the fact that no one else seems to take an interest in my, uh, interests tells me something as well. Ce va!