Les Taylor's sometimes-daily thoughts: November 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

a little fun at work, not really

a little fun at work, not really
Originally uploaded by yodamon

These little rows of green lights seem to run my life as of late. 2x12 the Enterprise Manager stamps them out. All the while humming with the green glow.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Panorama Nevada Washoe County Mount Rose Highway State Route 431 November 2008

Panorama Nevada Washoe County Mount Rose Highway State Route 431 November 2008
Originally uploaded by yodamon

I took this panorama the other day on a lunch drive from work and forgot to put it up. This is up the Mt Rose highway, SR431, across from the Montreux golf course. It turned out to be a nice day for the drive/photo.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

I have been looking at Adobe Flex/AIR as a cross platform application delivery/hosting environment. The thing that I like the most is the ability to put my applications in front of Windows and Apple users. I come from a Microsoft development environment and some of the methods Flex/AIR uses for UI, database, security don't sit well. Don't get me wrong, Microsoft has its issues as well, I'm just used to them and I am now trying to look beyond.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

star trails

star trails
Originally uploaded by yodamon

This is one of my favorite startrails photos. Check out this photo and read the description to see how it is made.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

mt rose on election day

mt rose on election day
Originally uploaded by yodamon

I thought about adding to the sierra black and white series. I went out at lunch today, with a hint of snow on the valley, and took some photos of mt rose.

... wine

"In France they do things through meticulous study with very little experimentation and trying to understand what they have around them. In the US you have people over here that go, 'Well, well shit can I grow wine here? I don't know? Well Frank lets give it a try. '"

Madeline Puckette, Wine Folly

Somm: Into the Bottle

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water." The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher, and stargazer, Galileo Galilei. It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape.

The smell of the vineyard - like inhaling birth. It awakens some ancestral, some primordial... anyway, some deeply imprinted, and probably subconscious place in my soul.

- Steven Spurrier - Bottle Shock

I like to think about the life of wine. How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks like your 61’ and then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.

And it tastes so fucking good.

-Maya, Sideways

You have to have it in your blood, you have to grow up with the soil underneath your nails, the smell of the grapes in the air that you breathe. The cultivation of the vine was an art form. The refinement of the vine is a religion that requires pain and desire and sacrifice.

- Gustavo Brambila - Bottle Shock

Wine is like people. The vine takes
all the influences in life all around it.
It absorbs them and it gets its personality.

- Luc Teyssier - French Kiss

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