Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

While we were in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, we spent an afternoon wandering around the Getty Center's gardens.

They're one of my favourite places, and as the sun slowly drifted down the clear California skies, the light on the white polished stone of the Center's gallery buildings faded from bright clear white (that stereotypically LA glare) to a pale yellow.

It's fun to photograph elements of the buidings in isolation, leaving white stone adrift in the blue.





Los Angeles, California
October 2009

Conference food is generally meh.

The food here is even more meh than usual. Apart from the arrival of low-GI agave nectar sweetened drinks alongside the usual high-fructose corn sugar rubbish.

However it does offer the odd comedy moment, like this label:



It could have been worse, it could have been the beef...

Las Vegas, Nevada
October 2009