pictures: Arcade Fire and Albino Deer

Brette (narrow_bridge) and I went to see Arcade Fire play at Cornell University a few weeks ago:





These guys are intense. [Arcade Fire pictures by Brette]

In Ithaca, we stayed at Von Cramm Co-op. I didn't take any pictures there.

On the way home, we passed the Seneca Army Depot at Romulus, NY (map). This area has been fenced for more than sixty years. Due to inbreeding or other reasons, there are now White Deer living inside the compound:



You're not supposed to take pictures of the white deer (or anything else at the army depot):



Note that you're not even supposed to make any drawings (take note, four!).

And here's (narrow_bridge), standing by the highway near Romulus, NY:

picture: Genesee River, University of Rochester

taken the day before I left. the UR campus is to the right (the chapel building is visible).

pictures: Rochester Farmers' Market

not quite riga, but nice to have nonetheless.

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pictures: AGU 2004

Dec 13-16 my former (and future?) employer, the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSD (and SIO, SDSC, and UCSD -- I was never really sure exactly which institution I was working for) sent me to the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco. Here are some pictures.

One thing every conference needs is custom-printed carpet. Given that there were 12,000 attendees, it couldn't have added too much expense, but it still seems kind of extravagant. I wonder if some AGU organizer now has this as their welcome mat:


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pictures: AGU 2004 people