tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186468852024-03-07T19:30:27.875-08:00The force that through...Where poetry and biology meet. Enjoy and join in. This is the news in a different way.Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.comBlogger658125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-24581612092537990052014-04-22T09:47:00.000-07:002014-04-22T09:49:14.640-07:00The Beautiful Dark<br />
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<span style="color: white;">The Dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sometimes it can be sliced like black cheese</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sometimes it is the surface of despair,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">nothing leaving, everything sucked in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sometimes it is the beautiful dark,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">coyote sounds and cows traveling </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">far from their source,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">and you sleeping, my arm around you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Later the tulips glow, yellow flamed</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">against the remnants of the dark</span></div>
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Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-64312426005890591122013-11-21T06:47:00.000-08:002013-11-21T06:47:05.388-08:00Needles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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needles from cypress<br />
lit by November grey<br />
clouds<br />
pushed by wind<br />
one brought inside on a shoePaul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-45348924182556779402013-11-16T21:50:00.001-08:002013-11-17T06:57:35.494-08:00Kansaslightning and the moon<br />
under the same roof glowing<br />
silent in the wind<br />
<br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-60594774371869597112013-11-07T06:38:00.000-08:002013-11-07T06:45:17.596-08:00The Interaction of Light with Matter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The light turns up then down<br />
as clouds scuttle in the wind.<br />
Gold leaves gild my vision<br />
and spread brassy sound<br />
round and round.<br />
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Some are descending notes lost<br />
in the still green honey suckle<br />
whose red berries will fly ostinato<br />
over the low drone of winter<br />
and the crack of white crust.<br />
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Then there is a chorus of paw paw<br />
singing with yellow pellucid soprano voice<br />
in the dark drum understory,<br />
cymbals clash in suddenly bronze light<br />
that quickly dims to subito.<br />
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See: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/11/01/242356997/einsteins-real-breakthrough-quantum-theory">http://www.npr.org/2013/11/01/242356997/einsteins-real-breakthrough-quantum-theory</a>Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-59059461017121663322013-10-26T14:37:00.000-07:002013-10-26T14:37:46.703-07:00Maybe if I stay very still...Not many insects out after the first frost but I did find this wonderful Katydid pretending to be invisible. Actually it did a pretty good job of it.<br />
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<br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-71927973555046870942013-10-25T22:36:00.000-07:002013-10-25T22:36:17.064-07:00Cell phone as an alternative to a DSLR?Well, or at least an adjunct. In terms of resolution and low light capacity a DSLR has even the best cell phones beat. Where higher end cell phones excel is in immediacy. I can shoot-fiddle with the exposure and other settings and see the results in real time in the field-sort of digital plein air. Where as with my DSLR I have to upload my raw file into my desktop or lap top for editing. Now that has its own attractions as well in terms of creativity but it is a very different animal than editing in open air.<br />
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So here are some recent shots with my LG G2. These first four were taken in HDR. I love HDR for textural and architectural details.<br />
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This was shot at the Kansas City Japan festival. I don't know if she was bored or enjoying a Zen moment.</div>
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Our administrative assistant does stain glass and had used some left over scraps to make an abstract sun catcher in her office window. I use this particular close up as my phone's home page wall paper. That is a glass bubble by the way.</div>
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Mid fall golden leaves at Clinton Park. </div>
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These two shots are from my campus.</div>
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A banded orb weaver. This shot was taken on a very windy day in burst mode. I could not get my DSLR in position with disturbing the spider but the phone worked well. This was the best shot out of burst mode.</div>
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Another close up from the G2, only slightly cropped.</div>
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<br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-24045315382362753422013-09-28T13:09:00.001-07:002013-09-28T13:09:31.072-07:00Another Visit to Konza Prairie.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Yesterday</b> I had to go to Kansas State for a meeting on science core outcomes related to transferability **insert arcane educational jargon here** and since the meeting finished at noon, decided that I needed a Konza Prairie break. The grasses and forbs are just starting to turn to their fall reds and browns; the tree foliage is still pretty green.<br />
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So here are some pictures, some taken with my DSLR telephoto but some with my new phone (LG G2) and its pretty amazing camera (OK for a phone). The animated gif is made by G+ from photos taken with 'burst mode". This is cool.<br />
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First, from the phone:<br />
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What I really like with my phone is the ability to touch the screen to select focus points that are also used for metering. For instance this picture originally had a bright blue sky but the tree trunk was badly underexposed. But focusing and metering on the trunk gave this picture. The sky is blown but I got the trunk detail I was looking for. And with a bit more fiddling I probably could have done a better job of this. OK I can do something like this with my DSLR but it is a bit more awkward.<br />
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Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0Konza Prairie Lane, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA39.1031323 -96.6051772999999839.0784893 -96.645517799999979 39.127775299999996 -96.564836799999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-83641559461708790592013-08-10T08:06:00.001-07:002013-08-10T08:11:22.020-07:00Unfolding<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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Unfolding,the map of the night<br />gets the location of every drop<br />of mist for anyone thirsting.<br />Be quick at dawn<br />before each place is extinguished by the light<br />and a new map draws itself.<br /><br /><br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-2456682677727923632013-08-09T14:24:00.000-07:002013-08-09T14:24:23.775-07:00About the best thing I can say......concerning "Japanese" Beetles (<em>Popillia japonica</em> ) is that they do not recite Vogon Poetry. If you don't know or have forgotten what Vogon Poetry is, here is a refresher: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FIxPeIiU2kx4&h=tAQH3Cjsn&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://youtu.be/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>IxPeIiU2kx4</a><span class="fbPhotoTagList hidden_elem" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"></span><br />
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This is what's left of the old boardwalk at Baker Wetlands, south of 31st St in Lawrence. It is being dismantled to make way for the east leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway. <br /><br />My son and I spent much time here when he was growing up and it was one of my favorite photo areas. Sure there is a new fancy board walk in the mitigation area but it is not as intimate, being higher above the wetlands. Maybe when the new wetland areas are better established it won't seem so out of place. Maybe other parents and children will make find it a friend as we found the old boardwalk.<br /><br />Good bye old friend.Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-55852046145647545852013-07-24T15:04:00.001-07:002013-07-24T15:04:43.847-07:00The invasion...<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdecell/9356832820/" title="The invasion..."><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2820/9356832820_e2b81bc5b4.jpg" alt="The invasion... by pdecell" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdecell/9356832820/">The invasion...</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdecell/">pdecell</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Do you think maybe I waited too long to treat my squash plants? What's weird is that these squash bugs don't seem to like cucumbers even though cucumbers are in the squash family.<br /><br /><i>Via Flickr:</i><br />Do you think maybe I was a little late in treating my squash plants?</p>Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-50175477712924034272013-07-23T21:46:00.000-07:002013-07-23T21:46:49.509-07:00A waspish visitor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are some of my first attempts at mesh modeling in Second Life. The mushrooms weren't too bad in terms of cost to upload and for land impact..but the green Equisetum inspired plant cost 30$L to upload the model. I wasn't taking particular care to optimize the mesh. Probably wouldn't have been too expensive but I extruded the mesh in the tops to get that texture and I think that is most of the cost.<br />
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But sounds like another reason to go to an Open Sim grid.Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-11782092240878590952013-07-04T18:02:00.001-07:002013-07-04T18:12:48.923-07:00Scratch for Second Life RevisitedSometime ago I<a href="http://theforcethat.blogspot.com/2008/07/script-generator-for-second-life.html" target="_blank"> posted about a script generator</a> for Second Life based on Scratch. The idea is is to graphically generate LSL script by first fitting program blocks together. The original Scratch generator was out of MIT. The MIT Scratch site is here: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/">http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/</a>. Recently a Flash based Scratch LSL generator has been put together by John Bennett from the University of Colorado to help introductory computer science students learn to think computationally.<br />
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The interface is similar to the MIT Scratch for LSL, The new Lash version is called called FS2LSL. Here is the interface along with a real simple program to change the color of a prim from red to green to blue and to white, shown in Scratch blocks.<br />
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The LSL code generated by FS2LSL can then be copied and then pasted into Second Life or other viewer's script editor. Granted, my program is super-simple but it gratifyingly worked without any modification. The code is well laid out and some automatic commenting related to the program is generated. The web site for FS2LSL gives lots of good examples many of which are from <em style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Most of the basic elements of the LSL language are covered, but don't expect to make complex menus and don't expect to find more than a few math functions built in. But you do have the ability to make your own functions. I appreciate that there is good coverage of control structures and if you work with IF statements you might find FS2LSL useful for working with them. </span><br />
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<br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-58270587108703159812013-06-30T21:15:00.001-07:002013-06-30T21:15:51.911-07:00Dogwood Canyon Summer 2013<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdecell/9181382004/in/set-72157634416106775/" title="Look at that!" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7291/9181382004_d12d699c97_s.jpg" alt="Look at that!" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdecell/9181379408/in/set-72157634416106775/" title="Cohesion and adhesion" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7438/9181379408_3559927958_s.jpg" alt="Cohesion and adhesion" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; 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Saturday went hiking at Dogwood Canyon. This is a private park but worth a day. Best to come in the middle of the week when it isn't as crowded as it was this Saturday. You can rent a bike, take a tram ride or even rent a Segway. But the park is best seen on foot. The main trail is paved but there is one side trail that is not. But I know from past experience the flies can be really bad there so I stuck to the main path...in spite of the Segway riders.</p>Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-78383121737229950362013-06-26T15:28:00.001-07:002013-06-26T15:30:33.620-07:00Prickly lettuce-Lactuca serriola<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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Not one of my favorite plants. Very invasive in the garden and unpleasant to handle without gloves. Plus the flowers are small and pale yellow, seemingly an after thought. But even the most noxious weed has some redeeming features...OK maybe not musk thistle-but seen in the right light even this plant does. Also it turns out-if WIkipedea can be trusted that this plant is the closest relative of cultivated lettuce.Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-62454990666371927702013-06-22T09:32:00.000-07:002013-06-22T09:33:38.617-07:00Old Hickory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kansas isn't known for forests but Eastern and Southeast Kansas has some nice stands of Eastern deciduous forest mixed in with the prairie, and being from the East I can feel right at home. Yesterday I went Kill Creek Park about 15 miles from my home. This area has a few stands of nice hardwoods including lots of shagbark hickory. I am a sucker for interesting tree bark-probably stemming from fourth grade when I got into serious trouble when I was painting part of the dread class mural. My job was to paint the tree trunks. What was my transgression? Simple I did not use the generic brown tempera paint but used a mixture of colors reflecting what I saw when I looked at trees. Fortunately there were some lichen encrusted trunks right outside the classroom so I was able to win my case.Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0Lexington, KS, USA38.91590887030334 -94.97543334960943238.909731370303341 -94.985518349609436 38.92208637030334 -94.965348349609428tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-86917999581219798152013-06-16T17:58:00.000-07:002013-06-16T18:01:20.753-07:00They're here!What's better than the return of the <a href="http://sanjuancapistrano.net/swallows/">swallows to Capistrano</a>? Of course! the first black swallowtail larva of the year in my garden.<br />
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<br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-404585264654070222013-06-15T11:08:00.004-07:002013-06-15T11:08:55.499-07:00Cooperation...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-34185950181696378312013-06-14T16:42:00.001-07:002013-07-07T14:32:13.756-07:00Enchanted<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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Sometimes I like to play with the color RGB color curves. Often they don't come out but this one started out as a pretty ordinary picture and with the right tweaking a got some really surprising effects.Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-90261228624319914172013-06-14T14:51:00.001-07:002013-06-14T14:51:02.073-07:00Opuntia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From my garden, these cacti over winter nicely outdoors in Kansas. The plant is beyond prickly- so hard to handle- but the flowers!<br />
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Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-53222016315702570592013-06-13T17:48:00.000-07:002013-06-13T17:48:04.182-07:00Neglected Land<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've badly neglected my land in Second Life so I have been spending a few days doing creating this little forest lane. Second Life runs on Windows 8 and I use a Logitech touch pad in lieu of a mouse. This is my region on the Second Life mainland, Carmine. In Second Life I am Simone Gateaux.<br />
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If you do Second Life come visit at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Carmine/202/205/135Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18646885.post-86166293976713589802013-06-09T16:25:00.001-07:002013-06-09T18:11:08.239-07:00Skeletonizing larvaeLots of insects make their living at least part of the time by skeletonizing leaves-that is,eating the choice lower epidermis and mesophyll layer of tissue but leaving the tougher leave veins. Today at Clinton Lake I noticed of skeletonized oak leaves. And it didn't take long to find the culprits hard at work.<br />
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These are very young saw fly larvae, probably scarlet oak sawfly larvae. I was thinking that these were real young but it looks like the mature sawfly is pretty small. Here's a link: <a href="http://na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/pest_al/sawfly/sawfly.htm">http://na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/pest_al/sawfly/sawfly.htm</a>Paul D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00535027161567978343noreply@blogger.com0