Ruminate #3.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams

35,000 feet up.

On the way to Logan International for a trip to Providence, RI. Not a
bad start.

Can you say, "sommelier"?

I have a friend from grad school (well, she was an undergrad) that has recently gone to Paris to attend sommelier school. You can see some pretty interesting wine things (and probably non-wine things) on her new blog. Check it out: http://vieenrose.tumblr.com/

Name the hotel/casino, 2.

No hints this time.

Name the hotel/casino.

Anyone? Hint: it's new.

Ruminate on these.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
  - Doug Larson

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
  - Harlan Ellison

Omaha, NE - Henry Doorly Zoo.

We saved the Henry Doorly Zoo for Labor Day. Now, I know what you're thinking, "Labor Day, are you nuts, it'll be a zoo!". Despite your terrible pun, we did have the same initial concerns. Then we were reminded that it's Omaha, Nebraska afterall. Though it opens at 8AM, we decided arrival about 10:30AM would be adequate. We parked near the North Entrance (do this for sure if you go) and were quickly inside (we passed tons of suckers parking way out by the College World Series Ballpark and walking their broods into the zoo - ha).

I didn't get too many spectacular shots (on the less than powerful iPhone camera), but here's at least something to look at:


[prairie dogs are surprisingly small, even on the iPhone]


[if there one thing that you always try to see at the zoo it's apes or monkeys. there's two reasons for this, poop and red butts. this big male silverback wasn't having any of it, you could tell he was a veteran - no go this time]


[pretty birdies]


[last chance for a red butt or poop shot - again, no such luck. this guy was acting all cool and laid out like he was on spring break]


[one of my best shots of the day - name that animal?????]