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Ryan was competing yesterday in Brockville, and captured second and fifth place finishes in the 222m and 333m, and came away with the Bronze medal for his group. We are so proud of him!

Ryan's hand, for tdc34 - Take a photo that emphasizes the details of the human hand.

2012/366 - Day 42

After my initial attempt at The Daily Create topic of "confusion," I realized I could manage another take on the challenge. Photographing real books, in these days of eBooks, is somehow comforting. I've photographed this book before (as part of a group shot).

The interesting thing about this particular book, but not visible in the shot, is that the jacket cover under the dust cover, was bound onto the pages upside down. So while the dust cover and the printed pages are right side up, the title printed on the book spine is actually upside down. Things like that can be initially confusing.

This upside-down cover thing also occurred once years ago while I was at university -- it was either an Astronomy text or my copy of Bullfinch's Mythology. Without a dust cover, the inverted page relative to the cover was continually confusing, such that I sat down one day, carefully separated the end papers from the cover, reversed the pages, and re-glued the book the way it was meant to be.

I didn't do the re-glue with this book, and now, in hindsight, it seems apt to leave it the way it is.

Second submission for The Daily Create for February 10th:
tdc33 - Take a picture of confusion.

By the way, if you've not read anything by Neal Stephenson, I'd highly recommend that you do. If you want to dive into the deep end, the three parts of The Baroque Cycle will get you Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, an early MIT, and lots of wonderful dealings of courts, cryptography, and currency. (That's my alliterative summary. Wikipedia has a nice one, too.) If you want something a bit closer to the present timeframe, try Cryptonomicon, or the amazing Snow Crash.

2012/366 - Day 31

Tangled confusion.
Connection paths intertwined.
Electrons jumbled.

#FlickrHaiku

Submission for The Daily Create for February 10th:
tdc33 - Take a picture of confusion.

The current population of the moon, based on currently available statistics, is zero. Despite the relative apparent difference in size, the much larger, yet still-dwarfed moon nonetheless has no population, contrasting greatly with that of the apartment building lit by the setting sun.

2012/366 - Day 37