I haven't updated my own photos to my Flickr account (or the groups I started there) since 2013. I feel guilty, sort of. Mostly I think I just ran out of steam. I have still been taking photos. Getting them up online was a routine for awhile and then I got behind and more behind and then drastically behind.

I still moderate at Flickr. I don't login as often as I used to but I'm keeping the groups going. I like to see the new photos come in and (for the groups which I moderate for someone else) new photos can't get posted without moderator approval. On my own groups I didn't set them up that way. But, this means I have to have faith in people to post relevant photos. I've been really lucky or fortunate. I seldom need to moderate my groups for Ontario or Canadian explorers. Now and then someone posts a road trip photo, not understanding the idea of urban and rural exploration versus a road trip.

Anyway, I am merging older posts from my personal blog into this one so my older exploring and photos will be here, soon. I've started adding some but the old blog is a disorganized mess. It has been around since before the days of categories and tags. I've found posts which don't have anything, not a title even. So, it is taking time to sort out the madness.

The nice thing about doing this is finding places I had forgotten about. I only hope all the photos will come along nice and easy as I move the posts over. At least it is another WordPress blog so it shouldn't have a conflict that way.

Wish me luck!

Originally posted to Sex Kitten.net.

I’ve known Gracie a long time. We’ve yet to meet face to face but there have been a lot of laughs and late night conversations over the years. Some day we will get together and my Prince will come and pigs will fly and so on. But, of all those, I think chances are good Gracie and I will manage to be at the same place at the same time. Eventually.

I can imagine how that will be. A winter day I think. Just a personal preference. Snow included but not a blizzard, more like one of those lazy, drifting snowflake kind of days. You might think you were inside a snowglobe, that kind of day.

Although a real meeting would be in a coffee shop or something practical like that, for this story we should meet somewhere unique. I’d say a sex toy shop but Gracie would out do me there. I’d be asking her what this is and what that was for and she’d tell me. As educational as that would be, I’m not sure I want her laughing at me when it’s far more fun to laugh with her.

So… we would have to meet at a bar. I know that sounds pretty ordinary to a lot of people. But, I can count the number of bars I have been in on one hand. So for me it would be fun without the background of marital aids. Plus, we could talk about the men.

We have different tastes and styles. For one thing, I’m Canadian and I like science fiction, romance, Domming and I don’t like swearing. Gracie is… not me. Gracie can fill in all those blanks for you, if she chooses. I’d rather not speak for her, too much. (We already know how great I am at keeping secrets).

Anyway, there we would meet, in the bar. Likely it would be in her town as I like to travel and I don’t have a lot of obligations to get out of he way before I pack up and head for the bus. I like bus travel, it lets you think and really feel the “getting away from it all”.

I’d know Gracie right away, of course. She’d be the one sitting there with a red dress and fangs. No, she doesn’t have fangs, not really. But, you did wonder for a moment didn’t you? Even without the fake fangs, I’d know Gracie. She’d have a smirk, a smart ass smirk.

To be continued… by Gracie (or possibly me if Gracie thinks this was another of my silly ideas).

It's a shame people think of sharks as such dangerous killers when in fact, humans are responsible for far more human and shark deaths than sharks. That's something for you to think about next time you go swimming.

I've been disillusioned about men online before, many times. But, reading the posts to #ByeFelipe is just sad. Some people will write about this site (the hashtag has an Instagram, Twitter and Facebook page) and complain or rant about men. Then there will be angry men who leave ignorant comments - men of the #ByeFelipe caliber.

#ByeFelipe showcases the dating scene online and how men respond to women who say no.

The strange thing is how little the men put into these interactions and how aggressive they become when the women don't give them what they want. Most settle into calling the women names: fat, whore, ugly, bitch, etc. I read one where he threatened to keep harassing her until she sent him nude photos of herself.  This is based on a one time, often one sentence, contact.

#ByeFelipe is sickening to read through. I laughed at first but it got less funny as I thought of all the men doing this and wondered about the men I know. Men I wouldn't suspect of this and yet... these men are all sons, brothers, uncles, husbands (no doubt in some cases).

We think the men writing this are ignorant due to their attitude and poor/ lazy spelling. We think they are jerks due to the aggression which comes far too easily. We don't think of these men as someone we know (and like). We don't think of these as the men we respect. But, we don't know and that's the problem.

These men pretend to be friendly, sincere and interested and then turn on her as soon as she isn't interested. Obviously there is no honesty or sincerity in their first contact then. These men would be a very bad risk to actually meet. So how do women risk meeting any men? Unfortunately this is what men don't seem to understand. They think they are all good guys and it's not their fault women are... (fill in the blank).

One last note: how much of this attitude could be changed if women were not shown as provocative in order to market products? If women were not seen as the sex in sex sells maybe men wouldn't think every woman should be available to have sex with them. Maybe even these men could see women as people rather than sex toys. Maybe men could treat (and think of) women like people even if they are not serving a sexual purpose for them.

Read more about #ByeFelipe and the interview with the founder.

I still don't really understand ambigrams. I've tried.

Ambigrams seem to have been invented independently by a few people around the 1970s. Their first public appearance was in Scott Kim 'Inversions' (1981), followed by a walk-on part in Douglas Hofstadter's 'Metamagical Themas' (1985).

So how do you do them? Well the above is a rotational symmetry one, though you can also do them with various kinds of mirror symmetry, and even translational symmetry sometimes. This entry will concentrate on the rotational symmetry type.

Henry Segerman - Ambigrams