I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. – M. Cole
What the Boss Likes – vacation in Indianapolis for Gen Con 2016, part 1
A couple of years ago, we went to Gen Con 2014 (posts here and here). We went back again this year and just got home. Here are some photos I took at the zoo, and one weird photo that I got coming home.
things always look better in sepia
ah, I love my big cats.
sassy hornbill
always torn about zoos, but it seems we need to have them to save the animals some humans have no problem destroying.
such intelligent eyes. The Indy Zoo does a lot of research to keep orangs alive and not extinct.
this little fellow posed very well
steam power station for downtown Indy. I always imagine a firefight on those steps on the chimneys.
another tiger in their pool
very hot tiger panting in the heat
warthog giving a nice photo
And the weird photos of what we saw in the sky just east of Indy at around dawn on 08/08/2016
The large photo and the detail:
this is a shot of the sky with the weirdness circled
it was a very odd day for clouds on the whole trip back. one side of the sky was cirrus then there was a strip of nimbus with patches of mammatus, then another strip of cirrus with some very linear features, and puffy cumulus clouds *under* those.
ah, I do see the tiny UFO. it reminds me of another UFO I saw, a black rectangle, no other features and I saw that early in the morning one day a year or two ago just before work.
It’s terrible here. In June (especially June, but throughout winter in general) people let off giant balloons. Many of these are grey cigar-shaped things, thirty-odd meters long, and the material is reflective. It makes for an amazing sight seeing one of these things just sitting up there in 3-dimensions.
Like most things in Brazil, I think it has some Catholic root, but I have no idea what. Now, I think it’s mostly because they look cool, although they cause havoc with aircraft, and often come down on houses, sparking fires.
This is one, but I’ll try and find a vid of the cigar shaped ones. They let them loose outside the city.
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Odd. Pollution sliced up by wind currents… or the weird exhaust of that tiny little black UFO you’ve captured just down on the last (furthest) trail.
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it was a very odd day for clouds on the whole trip back. one side of the sky was cirrus then there was a strip of nimbus with patches of mammatus, then another strip of cirrus with some very linear features, and puffy cumulus clouds *under* those.
ah, I do see the tiny UFO. it reminds me of another UFO I saw, a black rectangle, no other features and I saw that early in the morning one day a year or two ago just before work.
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It’s terrible here. In June (especially June, but throughout winter in general) people let off giant balloons. Many of these are grey cigar-shaped things, thirty-odd meters long, and the material is reflective. It makes for an amazing sight seeing one of these things just sitting up there in 3-dimensions.
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is there any point to the balloons or is it just because they look cool?
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Like most things in Brazil, I think it has some Catholic root, but I have no idea what. Now, I think it’s mostly because they look cool, although they cause havoc with aircraft, and often come down on houses, sparking fires.
This is one, but I’ll try and find a vid of the cigar shaped ones. They let them loose outside the city.
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very pretty but yep, I can see that they would be destructive. A weather blimp got loose here in PA and did a number on powerlines and some houses.
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This is a small one, small enough to be let off inside the city, but you get the idea
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