soupsoup:

As veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have watched with increasing alarm the rise of anti-Islamic rhetoric within the U.S. We’ve seen attacks on Muslim citizens, intolerance toward religious expression, and even threats of book burning. All this goes against the values we risked our…

Carl Sagan - The Pale Blue Dot Remixed.  Humbling.

Almost done.  Still a little work left at the bar that is taking forever, and need a little more furniture…

Filling the pool, about 3 weeks ago…

Rediculous social media sharing opportunities at bottom of blast email

Almost done.  By next set of pics, should be getting plastered!  If not the pool - me.

Major progress on the pool, but it looks like a bomb went off.  Check out my temporary U of Kentucky arbor!

Sunset.  Feels like I have a 1000 of them shot from this spot.

Oliver: about to retrieve.  Going to print it big.

marco:

Patent pending.

NEW iPhone 4 antenna booster! Just $29.99. Really works!*

* As tested compared to licking your hands and squeezing really hard in a weird way that most people are unlikely to do accidentally at the same time that their hands are wet and they’re transferring a lot of data. Results not guaranteed.

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I should clarify: this post is satire. I don’t actually use my phone with tape on it — I just put it on there for this photo. It’s a joke. Even though I always hold my phone like this, I haven’t been able to reproduce the supposed problem. Hell, Gizmodo broke theirs trying to squeeze it in just the right way. I really don’t think this is a significant issue.

A LOT of people have mistakenly thought that I was actually using my phone this way and suggesting this as a real solution. Actually, it probably would work. But I don’t need it, and you probably don’t, either.