art taylor

Others will cover the newsy bits better, but I rather enjoyed watching the fireworks from our lower deck, although a fair bit of the show was obstructed by a crane, I-80, and a couple buildings. More than made up for by spending the time with my parents and not "hundreds of thousands" of strangers who were there, according to the television news broadcast.

I took a bunch of shots with the exposure on my junk camera (SD400) lengthened somewhat, and the happy-smiley faces turned into something...less.

Had we deployed something like this over Afghanistan, Iraq, or Iran (oops, was I mixing past with future tense there?), I think things would have wrapped up much more quickly. Imagine seeing a sky of these instead of the boring green artillery that we saw 24 hours a day on CNN back in 1991.

In fact, if you look carefully at this picture, you'll see that, while city traffic was more or less oozing viscously along, and eastbound I-80 traffic was positively liquid, the poor (or lucky) people heading toward Oakland had the best seats in the house, and just sat still, terrified that we were under military attack.