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Congrats Coop!
chiefwagonburner Announcing... Charlotte Jordan Cooper Thursday, October 2, 2003 2:03 PM 9 pounds, 7 ounces 20 3/4 inches We are home from the hospital today and doing great, and entering the wacky world of diapers and sleep deprivation. In case you were wondering, 9 lbs 7 oz is as big as it sounds!
coop Schwarzenegger and Ken Lay Meeting - and some comments here
chiefwagonburner I have all the ads blocked on my pc, so I miss the wonder that is internet 'marketing'. SNORT BLOW AND LOOSE WEIGHT!!1 I think I got that message in my hotmail account once. Blame Canada! I was booting up a laptop that someone used at home and installed AOL on. AOL apparently now has 'AOL Spyware Protection'. I laughed at idea, caught mygeekyself, and hung my head in shame. Very cool, I hope they can start using it: cheap solar power
chiefwagonburner okay, maybe it's just me and my twisted little mind, but have any of the rest of you noticed the plethora of "The South Beach Diet" ads online? It cracks me up. The ads say "lose the belly, thin the thighs, make new friends!" and "lose 8-13 pounds in 2 weeks!" and "no cravings, no exercise, no forbidden foods!" And it's supposed to be Miami's South Beach diet. So what does all that spell to me? make new friends.... no cravings.... (well except for one) lose 13 pounds in 2 weeks... Miami.... A big coke binge! hee hee hee.... I crack up every time I see it because that's what I think. oh, shoot. I'm just a bum I guess.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians i like that it has "anti-clog technology." That's neat. Technology put to good use. har.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Come one, come all to the best innovation of the year! I'm going to start a company now, 8 blades. By the time I get to market they will be on 5 blades. I will dominate! Interesting link. Nauseating link.
chiefwagonburner I was listening to arnold's speech this morning on the radio. I was thinking -- after living in Hollywood/speaking english for so long, wouldn't Arnold not have such a pronounced accent anymore? That reminded me of a boy named Eric in my photo class last year. He was French Canadian and had the most pronounced French accent. yet his brother and his father had no accent at all. We were all convinced Eric just faked it so he could get more girls. I can imagine Bush's speeches with his voice removed. "eh..... ummmm......(long long silence)" I told my parents that if Arnold became the governor of California, I would majorly reconsider going to college there.
x I was listening to pbs radio on the way home from work and happened to catch the voice removal guys again. A breif intro, the voice removal guys remove all spoken words and dead air in an audio clip. You are left with breaths, ums, ahs, long starts/finishes of words, etc. The voice removal guys went to work on the sound bites from the debates and Davis from the town hall. It was pretty interesting to listen to. Ahrnald had some weird sounds, and sounded like a machine gun at one point b/c of a stutter. Davis and Busta used a whole lot of uhms, ahhs. But the most interesting was Arianna Huffington. Her entire sound bite was breath - she did not hesitate or make a mistake on any word. Thats pretty damned impressive. I'm sure my speech would be horrible when put to the test.
chiefwagonburner Awwa, storm rider. I'm interested in the actual scientific data, but the commentary seems a bit motivated. Maybe he wants to be Dr Phil for men. By the way, forgot to post this before - a bunch of us saw "Lost in Translation" last week. We all liked it a lot, it is definitely worth checking out.
chiefwagonburner Thanks Chris, Jimmy, everyone! I'm one of the lucky ones! No trees, fires or other calamities affected me other then the lack of electricity and clean drinkable water for a few days. I meant to address your question Jimmy, about the contamination of the water. To the b est of my understanding, whenever a city's water (American city) stands for a given length of time (in this case due to the water pumping station losing power), there are bacteria which can grow and affect the pottability of tha water. Normally, with good pressure, water moves through the system at a regular enough pace, renewing itself in such a way, as to make that risk fairly low. It may also have to do with the purification chemicals they use. I believe that most of our (US) water is treated with Chloriene (sp?), doubly making the risk of bacteria growth low. If you take regular tap water and let it sit for 24 hours, most of the chloriene will evaporte out. Anyone who's had a fish tank probably knows to do this before introducing fish into that water. I believe people with pools have to regularly reintroduce chloriene into them, in order to keep those pools free of similar microbia. I'd have to do some research to be more accurate about what happened to our water. I imagine that for the most part, small amounts of the water were not a high risk for noramlly healthy adults. I bathed in it, washed 0my hands in it and even washed my teeth (dentures) in it with no ill affect. It'd probably take drinking a a glass or so, to have a noticable affect. And even then the water on your line might not be that contaminated. The city just wants to be sure, before they issue a blanket endorsement. The whole thing was quite an experience! For most folks like me, there were few ill affects. But just driving through a city with no streetlights or stoplights, seeing piles of trees down, some chooped into managable logs for moving them, powerlines and poles, cars and houses which were smashed by same said trees, realizing that where-ever you go, there may not be many or any stores open, and if the store is open, it might be out of the one comodity that you made your trip for, long lines to get gas at the few stations that wee open, no ice anywhere, restaurants which were open resorting to serving food and beverages in plastic or paper containers, using plastic silverware, even the fancy places, and all of this going on, not for a day, but for more than a week. Tre' strange indeed! We were lucky in another way as well. There were relatively few deaths due to the storm. Sad to actually know of one person personally. But there could have been far many more! there is an odd kind of comradery going on here now. It's kind of reaffirming. Everywhere you go, rich or poor, freak or conservative, young and old alike, we have something in common to talk about. Standing in a checkout line often is heard, "Do you have power?" or "Did you hear about the Shoney's burning down?" or "Have you heard when the water will be better?" Everyone was affected. And everyone has stories... "Yes, I remember the storm Isabel. It was back in September of aught-three, we never seen nothing like it! Trees down everywhere, lights out for a whole week, no ice, no clean water, it was a hard time! I was driving out West Broad Street, just to see the damage, and ahead of me I saw smoke. I thought it could be insdustrial smoke, but no, it kinda drifted funny. As got closer, firetrucks suddeenly roared past me, affirming my suspicions. And then, there it was, the Braod Street Shoney's Big Boy, was on fire, ten foot flames leaping out of the back of the roof! I drove on by so as not to interfere with the firemen. Later I heard that it burned to the ground due to a lack of water pressure! Yep, Isabel claimed that one the day after she passed through!" Things are better now, thankfully! But it does seem like there are more stoplights than there used to be, heh, now that they are working again. Peace All! Awwa \A/
Aw I'm glad you made it through, Awwa.
jimmy Hah. What is wrong with this picture: 14% more Millionaires this year than last Consumer confidence drops More Americans lack health insurance Longest job slump since WWII Job watch
chiefwagonburner Sorry to hear about your friend, Awwa.
chiefwagonburner It has been a trial. Richmond is yet recovering from Isabel. The stoplights are now, for the most part, working. Odd, how it seems like there are more of them than there were before. Perhaps they snuck a few more in, while they were rebuilding. Most of the city of Richmond is now back on power. Odd to say that, or to say it that way. We have electricity. The stoplights work, we even have most of the streetlights back on. Many people in VA are still without electricity. There were so many grand old trees down! That was the problem! Those grand old trees, brought down powerlines with them. Many, many powerlines! They also crushed cars, houses and people. How to protect against a storm that targets grand old trees? I can't imagine. So it took 3 days to get power back in my apartment. And I am only ten minutes from downtown, close, really! I was so jonesing for PC and TV! Most of my refridgerator survived. Many co-workers are still without power; the more fortunate got power back a week or so after the storm. I have seen at least one fire (a Shoneys burned to the ground due to lack of water pressure, perhaps a Godsend), and heard of several others, including a co-worker's house, who all survived, but lost evrything, and a friend's house which burned due to candles. Such a waste. Thankfully, she was on the front porch when the living room went up in flames! And the worst (amid other deaths), a close friend, a challenged individual, partially blind, who while driving home from work during the storm, was drowned when his car was washed off of the road. Seems to me the airport parking contractor might be culpable for that death. He was asked to work, into the night, during Isabel, when all other businesses, including the airport were closed! Alas, we all only have so many footprints to make on this Earth. I sincerely mourn his passing. But Isabel proves to be so much more! What happened to us? I can't explain! We are still in shock! And now earthquakes, tornados, geysers? I'm thinking the "THEY" are now in control of the weather? Conspiracy Theorists Alert! If it doesn't kill you, it just wants to play with you, make more fun of you! Peace Y'all! Awwa \A/
Aw True, your eyes might have exploded. Hah, for some reason that triggered a memory of a line in Contact - "Too beautiful... they should have sent a poet" Costa Rica sounds amazing. I really need to get my ass into some spanish classes. Even my french is horrible at this point.
chiefwagonburner well that makes sense. I wish that the red tide that I saw in Costa Rica would have been phosphorescent. Although maybe that would have been TOO much beauty for one person to handle.... ah, Costa Rica.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians From this. Red tide is just an algae bloom, and the glowing ones are one type: "The current algae bloom off Southern California is dominated by a species called Lingulodinium polyedrum, which illuminates like a firefly when it is jostled. Such plankton that glow with the flow are known as dinoflagellates." Re safe: Red tide can trigger allergy symptoms, but they say it is safe. You are not supposed to eat shellfish though (months that end in R rule), I assume b/c of higher levels of bacteria or something. Radiohead was a good show. It is surprising how well they do their stuff live, considering the many different sources in songs. Thom didn't golf shot a guy with his guitar this show though.. heh. Sunscreen not that super for cancer. More RFID news. RSA doing some good work with RFID's
chiefwagonburner is it red tide that makes it phosphorescent? I thought it was not the same thing as red tide. Because you're not supposed to go in the water when it's a red tide since it will make you sick, but a couple of years ago Anna Goss and I went swimming at night when the water was phosphorescent like that. It was quite fun and beautiful but I know she NEVER would have gotten in the water if it would have made us sick.... There was a red tide in Costa Rica the last couple of days that I was there, but it didn't glow at night. lemme know....
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Went to radiohead with Master Chief Wagon Burner. It was the best live performance I've ever seen, period.
jimmy On thursday night Anna Goss, Colan (friend from up north visiting) and I saw red tide at La Jolla shores. It was quite amazing. Red tide is phosphorescent when disturbed. Some waves looked like they were charged with blue/green electricity, and the sand would light up as you walked on it. I tried to take a couple movies, but it was too subtle to pick up. I did get some color (nothing like what it looked like though) in this picture, but its blurry b/c I needed a tripod at that light. Last night at the adams ave street fair, in between fantastic music and interesting people, I saw a guy wearing a 'America Bless God' tshirt go agro on a guy in a muslim faith booth. "You like telling lies? Huh?" If people like him truly believe their faith is self evident, why would they feel so threatened? Sad.
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