Ian Aleksander Adams

Missed a day back there. Sorry about that. Yesterday I woke up and felt like I’d been doing heavy lifting all night - my lower back was in serious pain. It’s a bit better today, but yesterday I had to sit in bed for most of the day. Beth helped me ice it and gave me a little home remedy. I’m trying to be a little bit more productive today, but I have to take it easy. I got up from bed to go brush my teeth and I couldn’t see for a second because it hurt so much. Really surprised me.  Ah well.

I wanted to take a quick break and plug an important renewed initiative for clean energy in the USA. Cheaper transportation, cleaner air and water, and general sustainability - these are some of the things I think everyone should be able to get behind.

Image by Aleksandar Rodić

This afternoon I received a mailing from MoveOn and decided it was something worth passing on. Ever since the 2000 elections, I get a lot of mailings from many political groups, from ACLU and the EFF, to Factcheck and other anti-spin sources, to Greenpeace and Planned Parenthood. I admit that since I get one almost every day, most I just quickly skim. It’s not asking for money and as far as their emails go it’s relatively apolitical.  In the past, MoveOn supported petitions have helped stop or pass laws, so it isn’t just going to sit on the internet (like your favorite petition asking for a Star Control sequel - see how I snuck that in there?) Here’s the complete letter:

Dear MoveOn member,

Al Gore took a big risk when he called on us to get 100% of our electricity from cheap, clean sources within 10 years.

It’s an achievable goal, but it’s already under attack from the oil and coal companies. They’re calling his plan unrealistic, impossible, and crazy.¹

We’re in a crisis. If this is the fate of any new idea to get us out of this crisis alive, we’re toast. Gore’s challenge will live or die on the reaction of people like us.

We can turn back Big Oil’s attack if hundreds of thousands of us personally endorse Gore’s challenge to power our country with 100% cheap, clean energy within 10 years—and then we urge Obama, McCain, and Congress to get on board.

Clicking here will add your support to Gore’s challenge:

http://pol.moveon.org/gorechallenge/o.pl?id=13294-2856754-bXTXSCx&t=3

The petition says: “America must commit to producing 100% of our electricity from cheap, clean renewable energy sources, like solar and wind, within 10 years.”

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alexi768544.com

After four months, this project is finally “done.” I’m sure there will be some minor tweaks to the documentation and some troubleshooting of the web files, but for the most part, the project is complete.

After you’ve clicked through the maze-like website a bit, you can read the entire documentation here, including online class discussion and comments by people who found the information while the performance was ongoing.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Hanging out in Forsyth with Whitney, Roshini and her brother Vijay who was visiting this past winter.

Thanks for all the kind words about those last pictures. Beth and I had equal hand in creating them, and for many I honestly couldn’t say if they were hand held by one of us or set on a tripod. She’s really not a muse, she’s an artist. It just wouldn’t be fair to not mention that one more time. These were pictures of us enjoying daily life with each other (and there are a fair amount more created all the time) but there were enough good ones from that day to make a post about it. I’m playing with the idea of actually putting them on the website, comic panels included.

On an unrelated note, here are some quick links from around the net:

I'm finishing up the documentation for this project and I could use a little help. Pretty simple. I just need to know if the page is refreshing for you, and what browser you use. Feel free to check out the rest of the stuff on the site if you'd like, but it's not all finished (and page 8 isn't up currently, it's a copy of the first page).



Here's a little poll:

Poll #1225889 Browser Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Does the random image script work?

What browser do you use?

It was one of those days where I just felt like

ok. ok. It was more like this:

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That’s it for the preview images from Israel By Land. Hope you all have enjoyed them.

You can find it and Being Inside in Blurb’s Photography Book Now Store created from the competition entries. Andrew Hetherington, over at Whats The Jackanory, posted a nice little rundown of the offerings available there.

One day I’d love to judge competitions. It’s got to be seriously amazing to be sorrounded by that amount of imagry and actually get paid to just sit and sift through all of it. Dream Job.