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"I'm about to come at you like a spider monkey." Dinner last night was fabulous. Between the 7 finger pork chop, delicious libations, and tableside flambé deserts, I was ready for the siesta. We stayed up for a little bit when we got to the house, but my consciousness seemed fleeting. Ironically, I didn't sleep through the night yet again. I was up at 2:30 and again around 4:00. At 6:00, I went and tried to sleep on the couch thinking it may make a difference. It didn't. I'm exhausted. Sean and I met Ted at The Movie Tavern for lunch. We watched the new Will Ferrell movie... very funny stuff. When we got home after the movie I wanted to continue my DIY Mythbusters on the wine transparency argument. Drawing upon the lessons learned during the Guinness pseudo-control group, we set up a single glass of merlot on the stone table in the yard. The camera angle was low and in visible light, the curvature of the glass reflected the table, the plants upon it, the ground (and sitting on the ground)... all things lower than the glass in the horizontal plane. Without changing any positioning, I made another frame in infrared only to discover all the reflections were of things above the horizontal plane the glass sat in... the reflections were from the inside curvature of the glass on the opposite side... through the merlot. Freaky.

Visible: 100mm, f/10.0, ASA50, 1/15sec Infrared: 100mm, f/10.0, ASA50, 152sec