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Continuing my photo sets from flickr.

This was my first visit to the Botanical Center here in town. They do not allow a tripod, so I made a chain pod and used that. Sadly, they don't have birds anymore. However, I took advantage of the opportunity to experiment with shape and colour. Unlike my other photos, these ones have no animals in them, but I think they're interesting from an artistic viewpoint.

If you're interested in the whole thing, here is the set otherwise, continue below for highlights.

( Highlights - 10 images )

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Trying to get the photo sharing bit done before I head away from the net for a bit (work reasons).

These are the shots from the Omaha Zoo's desert display. I mentioned that trip earlier. The key things to know here is that I took the entire day to drive to Omaha, take photos, and come back. I think that the photos turned out considerably better because of the focus. It was very bright that day, so I got some good shots, though some are overly harsh.

There are a fair amount of interesting animal trivia below.

The flickr set is here.

( Highlights - 12 images )

Math time!

There was a physics limerick that I heard years ago. It went:

There was a young fellow named Fisk,
A swordsman, exceedingly brisk.
So fast was his action,
The Lorentz contraction
Reduced his rapier to a disk.

There was, of course, a dirty version as well. While trying to find the original, I ran across these:

A challenge for many long ages
Had baffled the savants and sages.
Yet at last came the light:
Seems old Fermat was right--
To the margin add 200 pages.

Interesting Theorem:
All positive integers are interesting.
Proof:
Assume the contrary. Then there is a lowest non-interesting positive integer. But, hey, that's pretty interesting! A contradiction.

( These, and more pain at http://www.markcarter.me.uk/math.html )