Jan. 29th, 2007

ellarien: Blue/purple pansy (Default)
After weeks of having the coffee-cart proprietor let me go through the quarters in the cash box every morning, I finally got a S. Dakota quarter from the friendly cashier in the student cafeteria at lunchtime. (Apparently the bird is a Chinese ring-necked pheasant. I had been wondering.)

A few years ago, many of the traffic lights on my main north-south street were converted to LED arrays. I noticed on the way home tonight that most of them -- at least the main ones over the road, if not the small ones on the crosswalks -- seem to have been changed back to incandescents. I wonder why? The LED versions were plenty bright enough, as far as I could tell.

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Jan. 29th, 2007 10:12 pm
ellarien: black tile dragon (china)
In which Louise has an unexpected encounter in the Forbidden City.



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