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About Gary

I write and maintain code for various websites as both a professional and a hobbyist developer, and have used computer technology for most of my life.

08-NARL

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Impetus

Up & Over the Sidewalk (2022)

A man walks upright. For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill, because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upward and cannot gain any momentum.

The rabbit is better off. His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work. They are more than equal to thrusting uphill the light mass in front of them.

Rabbits can go fast uphill. In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels.

WATERSHIP DOWN (1972) by Richard George Adams

07-POUR

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Composition

Nonsense URL
Who would do such a thing?

Abstraction indicates a departure from reality, existing along a continuum.

Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable.

Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and realistic art often contain partial abstraction.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art

06-POSE

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Focal Length

capturing an image
Photography Students of San Jose

A photograph can show a physical image in which time is static, and a mirror can show a physical image in which time is dynamic.

What he saw on the mountain was another kind of image altogether which was not physical and did not exist in time at all. It was an image nevertheless, and that is why he felt recognition.

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

01-LOCK

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Flocking

Seven older gentlemen of various political persuasions gather in the courtyard under the squawking birds to politely discuss and examine, in regulated heartbeat, the current issues and events of the week.

High-school classmates, both living & dead, unknown to others outside of Los Gatos, they also like to talk about.

Exclusive club it is.