Arcane Gazebo

Dude, that's gorgeous.

Fwiw, I've never thought ill of it -- it just belongs. Probably because it was there before I developed my shameful excuse for a sense of aesthetics.

Never thought of it as a claw before, but now, as far as I'm concerned, it's the arm of the Bay Areas gigantic robotic defender (courtesy of Japan), protruding from its secret underground lair. Airbrushing it out of photos is really a poorly-organized government cover up.

I think I've been airbrushed out of photos as part of a poorly organized government cover-up. Bastards!

who will win sutro tower of the oakland cranes?

How do you force-choke a camera?

The political cat picture is nice.

Yes, pretty tree. I guess the fact that I used to walk on the west side of the street (BART! BMUG! Cafe Firenze!) made it more apparent.

I've eaten there all of once. They've got a nice patio out back, but the bathrooms are cramped (and inadequate when busy).

I still haven't eaten at Chez Panisse, but I might try to do so before I leave Berkeley.

I remember tasty but not very plentiful beef, and some incredible dessert, but the rest is a blur.

Just don't ask for whom it tolls...

"A place for everything, and everything in it's place!"

Your challenge: Identify the source of the above quote without googling, etc.

You're serving brains at games night?

Yeah, you really cornered that bug.

Braaaaaaaains...

The heat lamp picture is awesome!

I love spatial patterns...

My precioussssssss....

So, have you named your new baby?

Mine is called Vecna, but that was primarily because my external harddrive was already named Phylactery (for obvious reasons). If I ever buy a mouse, it will be the "Mouse of Vecna".

I named it Valkyrie after the class I'm currently playing in nethack. (My last two laptops were named after Valkyrie Profile characters, so it's doubly appropriate.) This was originally intended to be a placeholder but I may keep it.

My G3 Mac laptop was named "Valkyrie", but I was thinking of The Ride.

"diagonal slash"? All slashes are diagonal, but this one in particular is a backslash.

Amirite?

I want to play Trivial Pursuit! I haven't played in a while, and that's one of my favorite board games.

Ha, I turned in a legendarily bad performance in that game, managing to acquire not a single wedge. That might have been a good thing, since I had to drive home.

I blame my repeated attempts to obtain the green wedge, despite that being my worst category.

Playing with one hand, eh? What were you doing with the other hand?

Taking the picture.

Instead, rather, purple.

Awesome aerial shot. (Also, Lemming throated me on the purple comment...)

You sunk my junk!

How about Chinese Guy Fawkes Day? That's what I want to see!

T', eh? With respect to what variable are you differentiating? :)

fogwin get.

The fog picture is fantastic!

I know it's a last-minute picture, but I actually think it's pretty cool.

I like the way the flower looks in the shot!

Oooh, oooh, oooh... I think I know! Maybe you're visiting "Anaheim". :)

GO DODGERS!!!!!

I like the Campanile pictures. Most of them have been unique enough to be interesting, though I imagine there's no shortage of said pictures around Berkeley.

Also, reminds me of the old BMUG newsletters -- I think every one had a new picture of the Campanile on it, sometimes with cutesy photoshopping, before that was even a verb!

You should start with the most important section (or at least the one that will get read the most): the acknowledgements. I made that part of my thesis especially snarky. :) (Actually, I guess the "Version 2" [or did I write "Version 2.0"...? I forget.] I put in the title in the copy I gave to my program might technically be snarkier, but the submitted version's title omits that.)

The moment I saw the image, I compulsively moved my mouse cursor on top of the mouse cursor in the image.

What types of undead were the leaves turning?

Hmmm... you're getting a lot of spam on the picture comment page now. It might be good to start a fresh one.

Oops, sorry for leaving one of those up the entire week. My plan was to let the summer thread last until the autumnal equinox, which is this Sunday, so I'll probably stick to that. Meanwhile I've banned key phrases from the repeat spammers but I get new ones every day...