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Wow. Colleagues and I were recently discussing the practicalities of implementing an electric car infrastructure and while the standardization of batteries was highlighted as a necessary step to implementation, the complete release of Tesla’s patents is rather remarkable. And I appreciated the “all your base are belong to us” meme! Elon Musk has mirrored Tesla’s himself whereby Tesla gave up his patents for a nominal sum in order to support Westinghouse during the 1907 Knickerbocker Panic.

I will NEVER do that again! 🙂

Four days getting eaten by bugs hauling 90lb bags of shingles up a ladder.

But I had a lot of fun hanging out with my best buddy! Outside of the over use of bug spray, the heat, the rain, the dust it was a great long weekend. Here are a few shots of some of the flowers that are out. I didn’t get a chance to kayak but the summer just started!

I used my Panasonic 100-300mm for the flowers since I wanted to test it at its long range with smaller subjects like flowers. It doesn’t have the character of, say, the Leica 25mm or the Olympus 60mm, but allows for wonderful depth of field. The two morning shots of the dock was with my Tokina 11-16 with the Mitakon adapter.

Graeber’s work on debt was both profound and incredibly interesting, this article in Salon takes on the concept of work and virtue. Graeber argues that we must re-define the way we think about work and its connection to the social good when we think about compensation. Graeber also addresses a central question that was the topic of discussion in quite a few Occupy discussions: how do I do what I love to do but still care for my family?

I’m sure that punk queen Patti Smith knew the name of UK artist Banksy but her introduction as Person of the Year at the Webby’s was funny here. Even better is Banksy art re-done in Lego, a.k.a. Bricksy here.

A stunning piece of house art from Connecticut here. More details here.

I grew up watching Bruce Lee films, astonished by the speed and skill of the Master. Only Jet Li comes close in terms of speed and style. I found this clip of Bruce Lee playing ping pong with numchucks. Impressive.

fake… I’m so gullible to these internet virii.

Here is a smattering of images from the weekend. I really enjoyed myself although I only kayaked once due to rather inclement weather; however, I did take a few long day trips into the nooks and crannies around the Bay. I found great little areas, off the beaten path. The wildlife was great and there were many opportunities to take great images!

All but the macro images taken with an Olympus 60mm were taken with the Panasonic 100-300mm. The long telephoto is an effort to focus at the long end, but I am getting more proficient.

OMG!

Amazing footage of the rare goblin shark here. Check out how its jaw extends like an Alien when attacking.

It is a thing now, these bloated whales.

The office was abuzz today with the CBC news story about the bloated whale washed up in NewFoundland. Not to be outdone, The Atlantic has a brief history of exploding whales, with video here.

I am quite excited about getting a Quadcopter and GoPro for kayaking and other things this summer. Philip Bloom does a great review and commentary here. This is part 1 of 3. The videos at the bottom of the page are quite nice.