If I cried out, who among the angels would hear my voice?

This morning as I rode on the bus in to work, I was reminded of one of the more compelling reasons why I love this town. To my left, a gentleman intently reading a scientific paper titled, "Functional Pattern Analysis: Predicting the Evolution of Complex Organized Networks." To my right, a fellow perusing an anthology of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke. Behind me, a lively discussion between a man and a woman about the annealing process in snowflake formation. In front of me, a crowd of faces hinting of Asian, European, African, and Latin origins, all bundled in their assorted winter armor, dusted in a layer of new and infinitely variable snowflakes.

Winter's Vacation

What do you do on a beautiful, sunny, 60-degree day in January in Ithaca?

1) Check to see if you're dreaming.
2) Realize it doesn't matter if you are.
3) Go play in it!
4) Capture it.


I hope you enjoy my attempt at #4

Fall Pictures

I was out this evening with my camera, and managed to take advantage of some beautiful light.

I hope you enjoy the results.

Poe Exhibition

I just finished the latest exhibition website for the Kroch Library at Cornell:

Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane

With Nevermore, Cornell University Library celebrates one of America’s greatest writers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the achievements of a superb collector, Susan Jaffe Tane. Susan Tane’s extraordinary collection documents Poe’s remarkable life and work through the artifacts of his own hand in his own time. The exhibition features many of Poe’s unique manuscripts and letters, scarce copies of his first editions, rare examples of the original newspaper and magazine issues in which much of his work first appeared, and editions of his most famous poem, “The Raven.”

View the online version of this exhibition

HELLO ME NOT DEAD

Maybe it's just me, but I found this really funny.

Marriage Equality

While overall I believe that federal, state, and local government have no legitimate role in the sanctioning of "marriage", I very much believe that if they ARE involved, it should be in a way that is free of discrimination.

Please, join me in adding your voice to a million voices raised
in support of marriage for gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender couples at:

www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/millionformarriageac

A Closer Look

I had the chance to get out with my camera for a bit this Sunday.

Nova Scotia

Vacation pictures!



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Beltane Party 2006

If you can read this, you're invited to join us in celebrating the return of life from the its frozen somnolence and the arrival of pastoral summer! Join us on Saturday, May 6th for the festivities, which will begin in the afternoon and end when there's nothing left to burn.

Feel free to bring friends & family, a dish to pass, and/or your beverage(s) of choice, and If you'd like to help in organizing or preparing the party, just drop me a line.

Dragon Day Photos

Dragon Day photos!

From Cornell Alumni Magazine
MAY/JUNE 2002 VOLUME 104 NUMBER 6:

Dragon Day, an annual event celebrated every spring either on St. Patrick's Day, or just before spring break, has its roots in the antics of Willard Dickerman Straight, 1901. While on campus, Straight attended the School of Architecture, and from his early days as a freshman, developed a reputation as a prankster, leader, and developer of class unity. The idea was conceived from Straight's belief that there should be a distinctive College of Architecture Day. The first day was celebrated with the hanging of orange and green banners (orange to appease the campus's Protestant population), shamrocks, and other thematic decorations on Lincoln Hall, then home to the College of Architecture. Later, the theme of celebrating St. Patrick's success in driving the serpents out of Ireland also became attached to the holiday. History has not made clear when the first Dragon Day (in contemporary tradition) was held, though it was sometime between 1897 and 1901. How the first parade evolved into a rite of initiation for the freshman Architecture class--ending with the burning of the dragon on the Arts Quad--has also not been revealed. Contemporary Dragon Day celebrations, with a dragon constructed by the first-year architects, and the associated ceremonies, began some time in the 1950s when the snakes previously used "grew up." Prior to this time, the holiday was still celebrated as primarily College of Architecture Day, and the theme was less focused around the dragon. The rivalry between the College of Architecture and the College of Engineering students before and during Dragon Day celebrations seems to have simply developed over time--perhaps as a means of expressing opposition to the architects having a full day for themselves.