November 10, 2008 22:29 by
MikkelAs I stated in a previous post, Google's Picasa is a pretty neat little tool. Just look what the "I Feel Lucky"-button made of my previous picture - the colors are so much more vibrant - but actually the previous post is more true to the actual colors - everything is so dusty in Bahrain for some reason..
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November 10, 2008 22:25 by
MikkelThe Dilmun Burial Mounds are supposedly something Eunesco deems worthy of preservation - much to the dismay of the Bahraini who'd prefer skyscrapers and large-scale urbanisation. There are a few square kilometers of what the picture above shows, all burial mounds, and presumably all robbed long ago. Also in late October we experienced 35C and scorching sun, so we only stayed a few minutes.
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November 10, 2008 22:19 by
MikkelBahrain Fort as seen coming out a few minutes after sun-down. I'm very pleased with this shot.
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November 8, 2008 23:52 by
Mikkel
I was just browsing pictures from our trip to Bahrain.. This lonely bird on a sandbank a few miles out to sea sort of gripped me.. Looks sort of like something you'd see on the cover of a travelmagazine. Maybe I'll post some more pictures soon. Btw. Picasa is a pretty neat little program .. Very well done, google guys.
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February 19, 2008 09:14 by
Mikkel
You may know, that I consider Gary Larson one of the all time greatest cartoonist out there. Well, consider the four pointy things at the end of the tail of the stegosaur depicted on the right, and imagine being at the receiving end of a defensive lash of said tail - not very pleasant.
Now, back in 1982 Gary Larson drew a cartoon of some cavemen in a primitive lecture hall. The man explaining stuff points to the tail of a stegosaurus and goes on "Now this end is called the thagomizer after the late Thag Simmons".
Funny stuff! Anyway, it turns out, the tail didn't have a proper name - and then it did..
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