Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
As mentioned elsewhere, NOAA has a wave pool. Designed by Jim Sanborn, it is formally known as Coastline, but there is no plaque or signage that displays the name, and almost no one knows it by any other name than Continue reading More on the NOAA Wave Pool
The NOAA Wave Pool (also concatenated as “Wavepool”) is a kinetic sculpture created by Jim Sanborn. It is located in the courtyard of Silver Spring Metro Center 4, on the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) campus in Silver Spring, Continue reading NOAA Wave Pool
Transcribed from a series of text messages: ❦ ❦ ❦ Kathleen packed tea and a banana in my briefcase this morning. I’m at work, eating the banana, drinking tea, waiting for a security scan of a website to finish, wondering Continue reading Bananas and seppuku
A quick comparison of the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPhone 7 Plus following a casual stroll around a lake after Thanksgiving dinner. The original iPhone had a 960 x 720 pixel camera, which means the iPhone 6 Plus camera, Continue reading iPhone 6 Plus vs. iPhone 7 Plus
Third world problems usually center around a lack of food, clothing, water, or shelter, or possibly all of them. Compounding these lacks, you often have severe pollution and poverty. First world problems, however, are more nuanced. For example, this sign Continue reading First world problems
Ikea sells furniture. Ikea has a restaurant, and it sells salmon fillets. The fillets contain fish. Consider yourself warned.
No idea why. Probably don’t want to know, either.
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a large campus on Fort Meade, Maryland, protected by fences, barbed wire, police dogs, guards, and maybe a dragon or two. It is not visitor friendly. But right outside of the campus is the Continue reading Visit to NSA
Nordstrom’s, ever at the forefront of high-end marketing, appears to have enlisted Sia as a clothing model. To make this even more surreal, the store music system started playing “Chandelier” while this photo was shot. Update Nordstrom’s continues to make Continue reading Sia as clothing model