02:26 am - The Inauguration I needed only four days of culling and editing to whittle down 1,000 inauguration-trip photos to a select few for posting online. Of course, I want to share them with you.
This post has 10, three before the cut.
There are 72 on my Facebook page.
And there are 255 in six galleries, divided by day, on my MobileMe site, which you can access and navigate by following this link.
Without further ado:
The Capitol and inaugural platform during the ceremony Jan. 20.
The crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for the Jan. 18 welcome concert.
12:41 am - Mr. Silverman goes to Washington I was in Washington earlier this week for a conference. The gathering was groovy and all, but I was especially psyched that after the meeting ended for the day Tuesday, I still had some time to wander around my favorite city in the whole wide world and take pictures.
01:29 am - Fall, Part II Here are some more shots of this year's stupendous fall foliage. These are from Oct. 4 in rural Sheldon, a hamlet in northwest Vermont.
02:22 am - Camels Hump, Part I I climbed Camels Hump this past weekend. The trek was my first to the top of Vermont's highest undeveloped peak (as the tourist literature proclaims).
Here now, the first in a series of posts of photos from the hike.
07:33 pm - Some cheating, apparently, is OK The International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency for years have had a major hard-on about tackling "cheating" in sports. What the organizations mean by that term, though, seems more limited; they don't hate cheating, they just hate drug-fueled cheating. Other forms of cheating are fine and dandy.
What leads to this conclusion? Look no further than the Olympics under way now in Beijing, where there is near-certain proof that China has run an organized, institutionalized cheating regimen to swipe medals in women's gymnastics.
China's athletes aren't drug-doping, though -- they're age-doping.
It's just as severe an offense -- or should be -- and perhaps is even more so, because the country's government not only seems complicit but actively involved in the deception. But the international community's complacent response has signaled that form of cheating is pretty much OK.
The authoritarian Chinese regime's hunger for medals has come at the price of the credibility of the IOC, which has refused even to investigate allegations that almost every member of China's "women's" gymnastics team is younger than 15 (the eligibility rule says competitors must turn 16 in the year the Olympics take place, essentially making 15 the minimum age to take part).
There's a fantastic Sports Illustrated column about the scandal, and the IOC's ambivalence, available here.
Where's the outrage? Where's the American media? Heck, where's Dick Pound, the blusterous former head of WADA who loves to spew forth in extreme language about the evils of drug-doping but who apparently couldn't care less about age-doping?
Are we all that scared of China, of offending the host country, that we can't speak up, can't confront cheating head-on during competition on the world's grandest stage?
The answer, apparently, is yes. Current Mood: cynical
07:06 pm - Insensitive remark of the day Winning the Insensitive Remark of the Day Award for Wednesday: Arkansas State Rep. Janet Johnson, commenting on the murder of state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney.
"This is like something you would see in New York or Pennsylvania or California, but not here," Johnson said.
Exactly how many state party officials have been slain in New York or Pennsylvania or California?!?
Good plan, Ms. Johnson -- imply large, liberal states are hotbeds of seething violence, while good ole Arkansas should be immune. Current Mood: perturbed
01:38 am - Eclipse Gak! Adam emerges from a lengthy posting drought!
Why? Because there was full lunar eclipse tonight, the last one until December 2010, and, despite intermittent clouds and temperatures that hovered around 15 degrees, I went outside to photograph the celestial occurrence.
01:27 pm - Tooting someone else's horn As a kid I played the trumpet -- which pretty much meant I could play other similar instruments, such as the fluglehorn.
But at the same time?! You gotta be nuts.
Like this guy:
I took that shot while attending a concert Sunday in Stowe by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band of New Orleans jazz fame. The musician is Efrem Towns, who was the lead horn player and singer during the truly stellar show, held in a meadow on a mountainside above town as the sun set.
Here are more pictures from the show and the fireworks display that followed.
02:13 am - A Few Good Men "A Few Good Men," Aaron Sorkin's gripping military courtroom drama, opens this Thursday, June 21, 2007, at Memorial Hall in Essex Center. We play 10 shows over two weekends, with 8 p.m. performances Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. shows Saturday-Sunday.
If you're not in the show -- and many of you on my Friends List are -- please come see and support us. Tickets are only $10 and are available at the door.
Here are a couple publicity photos I took Sunday.
Rebecca Reil (right) as Lt. Commander Joanne Galloway meets with Brad Enos (center) as Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson and Scott Remick (left) as Pfc. Louden Downey.
12:53 am - Dusk falls as winter fades I grabbed a few quick snaps of Mount Mansfield at dusk last week. I wasn't thrilled with most of the shots, but these two made me happy.
03:27 am - The (not so) full moon The setting moon caught my eye tonight, just a sliver to the naked eye, with Venus a bright counterpoint. I took my camera outside for about half an hour starting at 7:30 p.m. and got these shots.
04:24 pm - Fiddle me timbers The scary thing is how well this works:
Supposedly the star is quite famous in Japan, so this video must be a rehearsal of a professional production. Current Location:Work Current Mood: Meh Current Music: Fiddler
The day after last week's Valentine's Day storm, the high temperature in Burlington was 11 degrees, and the wind was whipping around the 25.7 inches of freshly fallen snow.
The storm set several local records: largest February snowfall, largest 24-hour snowfall, second-largest storm since record-keeping began.
12:57 am - Snow. Lots of snow. So we had a doozy of a blizzard here in Vermont.
The latest tally for Colchester -- as of 1 a.m. Feb. 15, when I am writing this -- is about 25 inches. And it's still snowing out.
I was at work from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. It took me from 5 until 6 to hack my way out of my downtown parking space and parking lot and drive home, a trek that included two attempts on the U.S. 7 hill just south of Blakely Road, because the car in front of me got stuck on its way up the first time, and then we both had to turn around and try again ...
Once I arrived home, my car got stuck at the foot of the driveway. It took about 75 minutes to shovel it out, shovel the entire driveway, and pull my car up near the garage.
But don't get me wrong. Snow is cool! I loved this storm.
I had my camera with me in downtown Burlington and made two trips outdoors to document the deluge.
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