Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen

Testing the Changes to Comments

2013-05-15T23:21:05Z

Test... Test... Test.... Trying to give folks more options: Comments: Is the comments from the last ten years. Disqus Comments: Is the new comments using Disqus, Google or Facebook to login bits.... Continue reading "Testing the Changes to Comments" | Comments (0)

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Foaming at the Mouth

2013-05-07T23:22:27Z

I would like to propose a novel idea: If you wash dishes by putting concentrated dish soap directly on the sponge and then wash the dish, please please please rinse the dish soap off well with clean water afterwards. Even if you are washing your dishes in very weak dish soap water, please still rinse. Please. My fave Vietnamese restaurant did not do this today or yesterday with one of the soup bowls. And now three hours after lunch of soup that was suspiciously foamy and smelled faintly of soap even through the sambal & basil, my stomach is churning and I am continuing to spit soap foam out of my mouth every couple of minutes. The only entertaining part... Continue reading "Foaming at the Mouth" | Comments (0)

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Javascript, I am just not that in to you

2013-05-06T15:16:40Z

I like Javascript enough to work with it, write in it, and meet up for coffee/tea to hear how its life is going. But I don't want to move in with it and have its babies. I realize that in contemporary web development I am completely out of sync as everyone who is anyone claims that they want to move in with and have Javascript's babies, be they JS babies of the web variety, bouncing server side nodes, or cute little mobile frameworks. But maybe, many of the everyone who is anyone are feigning their deep, abiding love of Javascript, and maybe like me they would rather catch up with JS over a drink and occasionally write in it, all... Continue reading "Javascript, I am just not that in to you" | Comments (0)

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Hit the Road on a Sunday Evening

2013-05-06T02:48:51Z

Listen: This American Life's 494: Hit the Road View and Listen: Photos and more audio from Andrew Forsthoefel's walking trip across America on Transom.org. View: Travel around various places with the Moon, by Leonid Tishkov. Chew: Paul Miller takes a road trip of a very different type: He eschews the internet in all its forms for a year. Chew and debate: Vanessa Veselka asks why there are no female road narratives in literature and popular culture. Commenters disagree with her and give examples of their own road trips or good fictional road narratives.... Continue reading "Hit the Road on a Sunday Evening" | Comments (0)

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Great (White) Egret Taking Off

2013-05-03T04:57:29Z

Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800. Thurs 05.02.13 - While all the other photographers out and about late this afternoon at Bolsa Chica Wetlands had DSLRs with Big Big Big prime lenses mounted (400mm+), I cheekily went to photowalk around the wetlands with my Nikon D800 with the Nikon 50mm 1.4G lens. The high resolution of the D800 plus the sharpness of the 50mm allows me to crop the photo and still get a good clear picture of the egret and the sunlight through it's wings. I am sure if I stopped traveling and started buying 400mm+ prime lenses, that I would have a clear photo of the mites on the egret's... Continue reading "Great (White) Egret Taking Off" | Comments (0)

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Unfolding Fern

2013-05-02T01:29:25Z

Photos taken by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800 and an 85mm f1.8D lens. Wed 05.01.13 - Happy May Day!... Continue reading "Unfolding Fern" | Comments (0)

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A Close-Up of Mercury

2013-04-28T06:02:11Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Sat 04.27.13 - There were a lot of very well taken care of vintage and antique cars at the annual Seal Beach Car Show, but this 1961 Mercury Monterey was very lovely. The front of the hood dials with the Mercury logo were casting sunlight intrigued me. How could two fairly small metal and plastic dials stay in good shape for 52 years?... Continue reading "A Close-Up of Mercury" | Comments (0)

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Evening Light at the Pier

2013-04-27T04:46:06Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 PureView. Another photo from Wed the 24th during the golden hour as the light was so nice that evening with the dark clouds over the land and the last of the sunlight sliding under the clouds to light up the evening.... Continue reading "Evening Light at the Pier" | Comments (0)

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Standing on the Pier, Watching the Surf go by

2013-04-26T05:13:48Z

Video taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia 808 Pureview on Wed. April 24, 2013, at 7:02pm. There was a south-southwest swell coming in at an angle to the Seal Beach Pier and every time a wave broke on the sea wall beneath us the section of pier my Mom and I were on shook like an rolling earthquake. It was quite fun.... Continue reading "Standing on the Pier, Watching the Surf go by" | Comments (0)

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Happy 10th Blog Birthday!

2013-04-25T04:10:05Z

While I first reserved the blackphoebe.com domain name in 2001, I used it for mostly personal one-offs for two years until I decided to start my own blog for ideas and my photography. I installed blogging software and set up the then design by the end of my 25+10th birthday in the late evening on the 24th of April, I didn't actually publish the first post until the morning of April 25, 2003 when I finalized a few details. An amusing entry from the summer of 2003: Thursday - Mom Surfing at Bolsa Chica In the upcoming year on this blog, I intend to return to daily blogging, be it photos or text, and to write more about life and... Continue reading "Happy 10th Blog Birthday!" | Comments (0)

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To Bishop and Back Again for Cousin Shelly's Shower

2013-04-23T23:16:16Z

Bishop, California, family, wedding shower, birthday

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For Boston

2013-04-16T05:04:53Z

Mon 04.15.13 - Today was Patriot's Day and the day to go stand out in the spring chill and cheer the runners on, but today it went wrong. To the people and visitors of Boston - to healing and hope.... Continue reading "For Boston" | Comments (0)

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