For that special someone this holiday season consider a boutique of cayenne peppers and wildflowers, because nothing says "I love you" like a eye-watering, nose-running, mouth-searing capsaicin-filled vegetables. These were for sale at the Farmer's Market at Union Square.
ALERT: Scott's PotD will be sporatic or possibly nonexistant from tomorrow thorugh the holidays. In the meantime, eat much and be merry!
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Eight hours of sleep each night is considered optimal for adults. Six hours or less triples your risk of a car accident. Studies show that if you sleep more than nine hours you probably won't live as long as those who sleep eight. And 20 minute power naps in the afternoon have been shown to increase productivity and safety on the job. This chap appears to have no intention of stopping at 20 minutes though. More facts on sleep.
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In 1922, much of the German government and population was very concerned about how to make or how to get out of making reparation payments for World War I as outlined by the Treaty of Versailles. But not Germany's Hans Riegel Bonn. He was up to his elbows in gelatin, corn starch, corn syrup and sugar inventing the gummi bear and naming the company that would make them, Haribo, after himself (Hans Riegel Bonn). The first U.S.-made gummi bears would not hit the shelves until 1981, although gummi bears were imported for many years prior. Today, gummi worms outsell gummi bears.
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Who the hell knows why these chairs were roped off. There was nothing going on around them. The sign "Hollow Sidewalk" means that thin piece of steel behind the chairs doesn't have anything underneath it, and you don't want to stand on it if your are a new contestant on The Biggest Loser. (Sidenote: In case you can't tell by the photo I'm back in NYC...Troy.)
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BOULDER AT DUSK (12.14.06) |
Last night at 5:24 PM.
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to see a view of Boulder taken on the same hill though slightly to the
east in 1872, thirteen years after the Boulder City Town Company was
put together. The asking price for each of the 4000 lots laid out by
the Boulder City Town Co.? $1,000 -- a pretty penny back then, but it'd
only get you roughly 3.2 square feet in an average three-bedroom Boulder house today.
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JOHNSON TUNNEL (12.13.06) |
Welcome to I-70's Johnson Tunnel. It spent four years chewing a gigantic,1.697 mile-long gopher hole
through the Continental Divide in Colorado and opened in 1979. It
handles eastbound traffic and compliments the Eisenhower Tunnel, which sits just north, was finished in 1973 and now handles westbound traffic. Everyone refers to both tunnels as "the Eisenhower Tunnel," thus slighting Edwin C. Johnson,
a former Colorado govenor and U.S. Senator. Oh and by the way, the
tunnels sit at an average elevation of 11,112 feet, making them the highest
tunnels for motorized vehicles in the whole wide world. How do you like them apples,
Switzerland?
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You could almost mistake this for a back alley door in New York City, but that would be a mistake. It's the backdoor to the Boulder Theatre. The sign says, "Tech & Performers Only." Those performers have included Johnny Cash, Lyle Lovett, Ray LaMontagne, Bright Eyes, The Finn Brothers, Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple to name a few. First opened in 1906 to showcase operas, musicals and silent movies, the theater got its art deco makeover in 1936. These days it's one of the best live music venues in the Rocky Mountain region and also the home of etown.
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THE SECRET GARDEN (12.11.06) |
They're reading The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The sculpture, Secret Garden (here's a front view), is by Mark Lundeen. Mark comes from a family of sculptures who live in Loveland, Colorado, which happens to be a hotbed of sculpture activity.
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OLD MAIN STAIRS (12.8.06) |
A stairwell to CU-Boulder's Old Main, which opened its doors as the university's first building in 1877. Here are then and now photos of the building itself.
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TANGERINE SUNSET (12.7.06) |
That white cloud in front is your straight up cumulus cloud, formed by orographic ascent in the foothills west of Boulder, Colorado. The tangerine cloud layer behind it are altocumulus and, depending on your meteorologist, altostratus - "alto" denoting that they are midlevel clouds. These particularly altocumulus/stratus beauties were formed yesterday by moisture coming in all the way from the north Pacific. The colors come from the shorter, more blueish wavelengths of light being scattered as they pass through the atmosphere and clouds, which leaves the longer, more reddish wavelengths to highlight the late afternoon sky. (Special thanks to NOAA weather wizard Mike Kay for the excellent cloud info.)
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Breaking from my usual taken-in-the-last-24-hours photo of the day, I give you a photo of the Intrepid I took a few weeks ago. Yesterday, the 900-foot-long aircraft carrier turned floating museum slipped away from NYC's pier 86 for the first time in 24 years. It's headed for dry dock in New Jersey for two years of refurbishment. The Intrepid took part in numerous Pacific battles during WWII, including the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines, where it survived numerous torpedo and kamikaze attacks. The Battle of Leyte was a huge, desicive battle that ended with the Japanese Navy basically being completely destroyed. Fighting "alongside" the Intrepid at Leyte I'm proud to say was my grandfather, Russell Watts, who battled it out on the land as part of the 96th Infantry Division, also known as the "Deadeyes."
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The main drainage for 326 square miles of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder Creek runs through the heart of Boulder, Colorado before feeding into the South Platte River. So tranquil and relaxing, right? Sure, unless a 100-year flood happens to blast it's way through. This photo of the last one in 1894 was taken two blocks east from where the photo here was taken. Hmm, 1894? Isn't that 112 years since the last 100-year flood? Why, yes. It is. Boulderites might want to have their umbrellas and waders handy.
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Built in 1933, this courthouse in Boulder, Colorado replaced the town's original casa de law, which encountered a slight "overheating" problem in 1932. This courthouse's Art Deco/Art Moderne style was considered ultra-modern for its time, and was constructed with sandstone blocks previously used in bridge abutments for the Boulder county's Switzerland Trail, the nickname for what once was a narrow-gauge railway serving the mining communities west of Boulder.
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