Stephen’s Untold Stories

Here are some other photos of the flooding we experienced earlier this week. Click each image for a larger version.

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A large photo gallery of Normandy with photos from just after the Allied landing contrasted with photos of the same locations today.

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October 7, 1921. “School in Session. Sunset School, Marey, West Virginia.

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That boy on the far left looks like he’s up to no good.

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More amazing stuff from NASA.

A team of Apollo-era engineers who helped produce the 1969 live broadcast of the moonwalk acquired the best of the broadcast-format video from a variety of sources for the restoration effort. These included a copy of a tape recorded at NASA’s Sydney, Australia, video switching center, where down-linked television from Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek was received for transmission to the U.S.; original broadcast tapes from the CBS News Archive recorded via direct microwave and landline feeds from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; and kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson that had not been viewed for 36 years.

“The restoration is ongoing and may produce even better video,” said Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who oversaw television processing at the ground tracking sites during Apollo 11. “The restoration project is scheduled to be completed in September and will provide the public, future historians, and the National Archives with the highest quality video of this historic event.”

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I had the pleasure of  attending the Braves/Yankees game earlier this evening with my father, and we are proud to report that the Good Guys won 4-0!

Chipper Jones at the plate.

The Cows love the Braves.

View from our seats…section 224.

Head over to the Big Picture Blog to see more of these.

I got to spend most of the day out at the beach. The weather was perfect!

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Just wow. That’s all I can say.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse

I took a little trip up to Berry College with some friends on Sunday and got some pretty good photos.

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I have to get out there for myself sometime.

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Some unbelievable statistics.

Facebook has hit the 175,000,000 active user mark, just 5 weeks after it hit 150 million users in January. At this rate, Facebook has been growing by well over 600,000 users per day over the last several weeks, continuing the company’s torrid growth pace.

If Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world.

• 45% of Facebook’s US audience is now 26 years old or older.
• The fastest growing segment in the US: Women over 55, up 175.3% in the last 120 days. Facebook growing faster with women than men in almost every age group.
• The number of people on Facebook grew by over 10% monthly in 52 countries in January. It grew by over 20% monthly in January in 13 countries.
• Facebook’s monthly growth accelerated by at least 25% in 30 countries in January vs. December 2008.

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Outstanding stuff!

This is the coolest picture of Venus I’ve ever seen.

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I found some good ones here.

http://www.photl.com

Some great shots of animals who just want a drink.

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This is one of my new favorite photo blogs. Click the image for a larger version.

Check out the Big Storm Picture Blog here.

I used the Picnik “auto-fix” feature that Flick now has.

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There was a beautiful full moon out tonight, so I took a few shots with the new camera. Not too shabby, I must say!

If you haven’t been up to Fannin County lately, I highly recommend it!

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Yes, I managed to sell my Canon XTi and here is the one I purchased as a replacement.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28K 10MP Digital Camera with 18x Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

And I got a pretty good deal at Amazon.

I’ve decided to sell my Canon Rebel XTi. I love the camera, but I just don’t have the time to learn all the advanced features. I’d be better off getting a nice point and shoot, so if anybody is interested, here is the listing on Craigslist.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/ele/929274348.html

UPDATE!! The camera has been sold!