Spenser Crime Buster Rules

Another vaca­tion out­take. This is from the Olympic Sculp­ture Gar­den in Seat­tle. The title of this piece is Wake and it is by Richard Serra. 10 big ol’ rusty metal plates welded into 5 wave shaped forms. To get a sense of scale look to the left and you will see Donna in her red jacket.

I ran out of books to read after I fin­ished the one on the plane home and haven’t had time to get to the used book­store yet, so I had to re-read some­thing I had around the house. Picked “School Days” by Robert B. Parker. Tonight I stum­bled on the sec­tion of the book I was think­ing of back in March. Here for pos­ter­ity are the Spenser Crime Buster Rules so far:

#8: Always look.
#8a: Don’t blun­der into some­thing while you’re looking.

If I find more I’ll make a sep­a­rate page for them.

A cou­ple more cam­era con­tenders sur­faced today, both of them Canons; 1) Pow­er­Shot A710IS & B) Pow­er­Shot SD800IS. The SD800 is about the same size as my cur­rent Kodak and it’s zoom’s widest angle is 28mm, not the 23 I have already, but it meets ever other cri­te­ria. The 710 is the least expen­sive option, but it’s zoom starts at 35mm. Plus it, like the Pana­sonic DMC-TZ3 I men­tioned yes­ter­day, are about and 1–1/2″ thick com­pared to my lit­tle more than 3/4″ Kodak. I will need to go to a store and put one in my back pocket try it out first (hope­fully not get­ting picked up for shoplift­ing in the attempt.)