Travel Day

We are avoiding taking route 95 home. Therefore we are taking the looooong way. We started yesterday and got as far as Maryland. We still have nine hours to go. That is the agenda for today.

Foamhenge

Today we bore witness to one of the wonders of the ancient world.

Nobody knew who they were, or what they were doing.

Sort of.

*****Foamhenge*****

Hidden away in the mysterious land known as Natural Bridge, Virginia, is a wonder of wonders. A life sized replica of Stonehenge, done in foam. Oh, it is a site to behold. Jen read somewhere that it was actually done as an April Fools joke, but it was so strikingly awesome that it was never taken down.

It looks a little weather beaten, and there is evidence to suggest that some less than classy individuals have actually chipped pieces off of it, but what remains now is a living testament to how goofy folks can be.

Suffice to say, it is awesome beyond words.

iPhoto and Flickr

What’s the deal with the interface between iPhoto and Flickr? When you try to upload out of iPhoto it makes one pass through the selected photos and adds a 1024×680 version of the file. But my images are 4288 x 2848. How do those get to Flickr? iPhoto makes a second pass and the full size gets added then.

But the display is god awful. It gives you a status bar along with an estimated time to completion, but that is only for the first pass. I am uploading 127 files right now. The first pass took about 13 minutes. The second pass just sits there with a full status bar and the message, “pending”. How long as that been showing? I’m less than halfway through the set and it’s been over 90 minutes. Are you freakin’ kidding me?

Uploading to Facebook isn’t like that. What’s the problem with Flickr? You know Flickr, right? The actual photo site?