When we were on our recent trip to Washington state (or as I used to call it, “the Pacific Northwet,”) I noticed all the “tsunami escape route” signs, which are similar to the ones we’ve seen on trips to Hawaii. I wondered then what a devastating wave might do to some of the coastal communities we were in, and it seemed like they were pretty well up on the tidal wave preparedness angle. After yesterdays’ 7.0 undersea quake, which was supposed to automatically trigger a general evacuation once it was confirmed, it turns out that for many Pacific coast communities,…
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Hey! Everybody Googling “brian and greg smith amazing race,” “brian and greg wrecked car,” and especially “ugly hats” please visit Brian’s site: brian . thomas . smith It’s a great looking site with incredible head shots of Brian (obviously working the reality angle for his career), but oh, dear, the HTML is all tables. Gah! No CSS! And it has spacer .gifs! Urrrkkkh! Bri – I know someone in LA who might be able to help redesign that site, dude. Also the contact information doesn’t work, but that’s probably for the best. P.S. There’s a perfectly good site name for…
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Amendola, a veteran character actor, added that his character, a mentor to Teal’c (Christopher Judge), will appear several times during year nine. “Last season, primarily, our enemy had been destroyed,” he said. “The war essentially ended. And now it’s a question of how do you make the peace? And how do you make the peace when you’ve be warring with each other, as factions, for thousands of years and only came together to defeat a common enemy? Now that the enemy is gone, how do you maintain the peace? How do you create a governance? It’s very timely. I’ve already…
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BBC NEWS | Americas | ‘Freedom fries’ lawmaker’s U-turn Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has reversed his support for the Iraq war and now wants the troops brought home. He was formerly an adamant supporter of the war who led the whole Congressional “Freedom Fries” campaign to rename fried potatoes to get back at those wimpy peaceloving French bastards. His change of heart took place when he attended the funeral of a US sergeant and listened as the widow read her husband’s last letter home. He’s attended a lot of funerals, actually, and written over 1,300 letters of condolence, and he…
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… whether Michael Jackson is guilty or not. Naturally, everyone in the office is all a-quiver and jumping online to try to find live video. I can hear live feed-type audio coming from all over. Naturally, this will slow the office network to a crawl. If only the Onion had a live feed. That would be a lot more bearable. And of course now I’m curious enough to try to get a live feed going, but must try to resist. But if he’s guilty and he starts to cry in court, I’m betting his nose falls off. UPDATE: Huh? Okay,…
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This sounds like something that would be fun to do some Saturday: Community Sing at the Masthouse If it’s anything like McMenamin’s was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, it would be awesome. No drinking – fine, it’s a private home. No smoking – AWESOME.
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The G8 ministers are attending next month’s summit are invited to bag the lavish banquet they’ll be served one night at Gleneagles, Scotland and have a single bowl of rice on Devonshire Green with some nice people from MakePovertyHistory.org. More information: G8: You’re Invited! Please RSVP
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All right, that’s a bit better. I still have to manually add the category and upload the photo to the right directory, but that’s almost as good as Mfop2 could do. Here’s Steve in his new Prius. His car is different than ours… it starts with the push of a button. We’re thinking of starting a club for hybrid car owners in the area, and might have a few people at the “Holy Rollers Classic Car Show” event at Holy Moly (which is July 10th if anyone was thinking of dropping by). Link Original upload: GinnyRED57.
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Gack. Well, I clearly have some more work to do with templates and such. Here’s my first attempt to fix the post; I think I’ve got the Flickr template set right but that’ll be another test. I had to remember (duh) that Firefox now requires image size to be specified in order to display the float properly without busting the middle column out all over. Original upload: GinnyRED57.
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I see via various blogs (BoingBoing and others) that the Downing Street Memo still hasn’t gotten much mainstream media attention. The new website on the Memo has a lot of information on the issues surrounding the document, and also under the Take Action link, you can sign on to the letter to the President that asks the questions originally asked by Sen. John Conyers and 88 other members of Congress on May 5, 2005. There’s a link to a PDF copy of the actual document, with the signatures in various hands and ink-colors. Then there’s a link to an alphabetized…