G+ PhotoWalk in Austin during SXSW Today!

All skill levels are invited – bring your whole family… it’s great fun for all.

• RSVP on Google Schemer: http://goo.gl/LkaKO
• Google Schemer Invite link: goo.gl/RoxQg
• Date: Saturday, March 10 at 2 PM.
• Location: The Google Lot downtown – Bar 96
• No SXSW badge required!

Mittens or Gloves

I still have yet to find the perfect situation for this.  I’ve tried many different gloves with flip-up fingers so I can use the camera, but they are usually not that great.  My fingers still get deathly cold after thirty minutes.  I think mittens are better, generally, because the fingers keep one another warm.  And I’ve tried some flip-up solutions for those, which aren’t great either.  What do you use?

Daily Photo – The Deep Icy Lake

Lake Wakatipu, cut by glaciers 15,000 years ago, plummets to 399 meters in depth (almost a quarter-mile)!  There is something creepy about very-deep lakes.  I don’t know what it is.  I mean, anything could be down there.  Something cold, old, and terrible… slithering around through a slurry of icy mud and grit, just waiting to shoot to the surface for a snack…