This morning there is news that Kurt Vonnegut, esteemed author, has passed away at age 84 due to brain injuries sustained in a fall.

Vonnegut was the first “literary” writer I ever felt a pull to read. Everyone will talk about his famous novels, but I preferred his first Player Piano and a zany novel that came a little later, Deadeye Dick. I can’t claim to like all of his work, but he did have a voice that was distinct and compelling. He will be missed.

Image by Yongfook

A couple of former colleagues, Peter Jenkins and Lloyd Shove, left comments about the photo yesterday indicating that it looked like the photographer had used a technique called High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR.) Not being much of a photographer myself, I didn’t know about this. The image above is composed using the technique. Pretty cool stuff!

Photo by Vesuviano

Comments anyone?

From unknownnews.org….

“I just thought, ‘Oh my goodness!’ So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front,” Mulally said. “I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen.

Note to Ford designers, it’s a bad idea to give consumers an option to blow themselves up while attempting to refuel. You can imagine that the operator above is operating at, or slightly below, the average intelligence level in the US…

Check out the call for Chrysler to ditch combustion engines and go electric at Montara Energy Ventures.