Photopost: Mount Desert Island

We spent the long Labor Day weekend visiting Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park in Maine. It was our first visit in 10 years, and thus our first visit with the kids. I’ve been blogging long enough to have a full travelogue of our “babymoon” in 2007 still online.

We stayed at terrific vacation home in Bass Harbor on the “quiet side” of the island.

Highlights of the trip include:

• Diver Ed’s Dive-in Theater
• Dinner on the patio overlooking Bass Harbor at the Seafood Ketch
• Making stops along the park loop road in Acadia National Park (especially Thunder Hole)
• Riding the Carriage Roads on bike rented from the helpful and friendly Southwest Cycle
• Popovers at the Jordan Pond House

Here is a small selection of my photos of this most photogenic island.

Lobster boat

Another lobster boat.

A live lobster.

Sea kayaks and giant yacht in Frenchman Bay

Breaking wave.

Rocky cliffs.

Butterfly by Jordan Pond House.

Eagle Lake.

Waves come into Thunder Hole.

Somesville Bridge.

Song of the Week: “Czech One” by King Krule

This week’s track is a weird and moody piece from King Krule, aka Archy Marshall, a singer and rapper from the UK.

 

Podcasts of the Week: August 26-September 8

This (two) weeks in podcasts.

All Songs Considered: All Songs +1: The Weird World Of ‘Feature’ Credits

Ever wondered what has lead to the great increase in songs with a “feat.” artist in the title over the past couple of decades? Or why the featured artists appears in the song title rather than the performer? Or what the difference between “feat.” and “with” or even “x” and “vs” all means?  Apparently, it’s all about metadata.

HUB History: Perambulating the Bounds

Local law requires Boston City Councilors or their designees to walk the boundaries of the city every five years, a practice that was often a boozy ceremony in the past, but has been ignored since the 1980s.  If the city is looking for citizens to take up perambulating the bounds again, I put my foot forward.

99% Invisible: The Age of the Algorithm

How algorithms, purportedly designed to replace subjective judgments with objective measurements, have been used as a cover for discrimination and  marketed for purposes they’re not designed for.

Have You Heard: Education Can’t Fix Poverty. So Why Keep Insisting that It Can?

The history of the most misguided myth about education, that it will resolve poverty with no other interventions required, and how it has set up schools to fail.

Finally, there are two podcasts that actually replayed episodes made by another podcast this week:

Code Switch: An Advertising Revolution: “Black People Are Not Dark-Skinned White People”  originally from Planet Money

An interesting story of the first African-American advertisement executive who showed how supposed free market capitalists were losing out on money due to white supremacy.

99% Invisible: Notes on an Imagined Plaque originally from The Memory Place

Nate Dimeo’s thoughts on what should be placed on a plaque on a Memphis statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest to mark the reasons why the statue exists.