Kevin Butler

@milesnaismith

I love travel, food, good story-telling, and empathy. I also have a huge man-crush on the rule of law. I run a company that does business phone, video conferencing, and contact centers especially for local governments. www.vertical.com

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Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Jun 14

Almost Army tanks.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· May 18

Cat lolls on a dark brown blanket with legs stretched out and eyes closed.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· May 8

The stages of eating cheese.
1. Eating cheese
2. Still eating cheese.
3. Ate too much cheese.
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4. Bit more cheese.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· May 2

We visited Keensburg Animal Sanctuary. Walked 3 miles which is probably the most I've done since the kidneys quit functioning. Really wonderful day. www.wildanimalsanctuary.org

Black and white fox with a white-tipped tail turns to head into the grass.

A pack of 4 wolf dogs stands line abreast. Two are dark and two are white. The wolves hear a truck and are wondering if they get an extra dinner. It's not more dinner.

Two male lions lay on hay napping. Both of these big boys grew up together and were heavily abused. They don't really tolerate anyone else but each other.

A white fox with red highlights is curled up on the ground. She has heard me and is looking up wondering why I am disturbing her nap.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 27

Not a let, but how about a bunny in my yard?

Bunny sits in front of an irrigation pipe she had dug up.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 23

That's not a stealth tank. This is a picture of a stealth tank company.

Many tracks of tanks, but no tanks to be seen! This is true tank stealth.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 13

I think your pic missed a few accoutrements. Here's their armory that contains everything from sabers and halberd to long rifles and MP5s.

A member of the Papal Swiss Guard standing in the Guard armory. Racked to the left are sabers, to the right is plate cuirasses and helmets. In the foreground are racks of rifles and a few submachine guns.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 8

Not sure if it is my favorite, but it is my most recent. Castle Saint 'Elmo overlooking Naples is amazing. Great sightlines and incredible walls. Not ready for gunpowder combat, but how the heck do you get a cannon up there to sight on it?

Castle Saint 'Elmo on the hill overlooking Naples. A star fort, but still with incredibly tall masonry walls.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 5

You remember the scene is The Winter Soldier where they have to reprogram Bucky? Like that.

The Winter Soldier sits in a complicated chair (inexplicably in a bank vault) waiting to be shocked and reprogrammed by Hydra.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 4

What a nice view to wake up to.

The full moon hangs over the Rocky Mountains with fresh snow (a rarity this year) in the morning.

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Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Apr 3

Are you sure it isn't this?

Black and white picture of a Bob Semple Tank from New Zealand. The tank is made of corrugated iron with small machine gun turrets all over the slab-sided tank.
This is often cited in lists of world's worst tank designs.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Mar 26

Or how about we just planes IN our planes?

Diagram of a Boeing 747 built to house fighter jets inside. The diagram shows 10 fighters stowed inside the 747 in ridiculous fashion. A second image shows a scissor arm deploying one of the planes.
This is labeled the Boeing 747 AAC.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Mar 17

For variety have some pretty mountains to sooth the savage brain. Lots of empathy and sympathy.

Rocky mountains with a light dusting of snow. The sky is aggressively blue. Green trees are in the foreground for contrast. Taken in Estes Park, CO.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Mar 14

That just means you need bigger boxes. This is Hester.

Hester the cat curls up in the cutest way possible. No one can resist this. Look at those paws!

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Mar 12

Cover of the book, War is a Racket, by Gen. Smedley Butler.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Mar 11

Clearly, we should move back to running everything on coal!

Anthropomorphic anthracite, the US DOE's new coal mascot,dressed in yellow safety gear stands in front of a tryptic of coal mining sites. An American flag waves in the background.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Feb 28

The US is using new technologies like one-way attack drones for the first time, also...Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Post describing US military strikes on Iran.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Feb 15

One of my favorites in this category is Lincoln's "birthplace." The inaccuracies list is LONG, but the best part is that even if this was his cabin, at one point the pieces of the Lincoln cabin and the birthplace of Jefferson Davis got mixed up so we don't know which pieces are which!

A lot cabin stands in the Lincoln Birthplace Memorial. It is enclosed in a larger room. It's, at best, a lot cabin of Theseus.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Jan 20

Heads up, the latest book in the Dresden Files is out today.

Cover of book, Twelve Months by Jim Butcher. This is a part of the Dresden Files series.
Cover shows Harry Dresden on his trenchcoat and hat carrying a staff. A gold circular emblem is behind him.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Dec 18

I believe the movie 1776 covered this.

Scene from the movie 1776. The members of the Continental Congress aggressively sing, "Throw it out the window."

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Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Nov 27

Gary Oldman as madman Zorg from the Fifth Element.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Nov 8

I believe this is a meeting loom.

A group of people stand around a vertical loom in an open field. There are white event tents behind them and a treeline behind the tents.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Oct 22

They were a couple of characters.

Tony Robbins and Phil Harding from Time Team stand in a trench.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Oct 17

Patrick Stewart dressed in a Starfleet:Next Generation uniform as Jean-Luc Picard.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Sep 12

Frontier Ferret

Black-Footed Ferrets is adorably pictures on the tail of a Frontier Airlines jet.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Sep 11

I think they sound like bad brakes on a car, but I like your version. Here's a couple of more pics.

Female elk looks querously at the camera.

Female elk looks back behind her. Probably at one of the many cars stopped on the side of the road.

Elk herd stands at the edge of an evergreen treeline. A large buck tries to keep the herd separated from my ther bucks.

Kevin Butler@milesnaismith· Sep 11

Elk rut season has begun. Instead of dealing with all the social media madness yesterday, we went up to RMNP and encountered the elk instead. Much better experience.