Sites
12.13.2004/15:29
Wot?
Woot!

Sites
12.12.2004/21:59
Zombie jamboree
How to fight off a group of zombies. (via the unfailingly rewarding Blort)

Drivel
12.12.2004/10:35
Home Again
Susan and I have just returned from about three and a half weeks of road travel, which though it included Thanksgiving, I did not treat as vacation, and so kept up with work from the road on my lap top. Some thoughts:

1. The dial-up ghetto is real hell for anyone trying to do any kind of work. Several of the places we stayed had only dial-up available. Oh, the suffering.

2. On the other hand, I spent two of the days at a conference in New Orleans, in the charmingly ancient old Le Richelieu, which barely has phones much less broadband, and all was saved by the internet cafe on the next corner. Including good latte!

3. I got to meet Carly Steyer. Perhaps one day you will get to meet her, too!

4. When we go to places like New York, we almost always fly, and having a car there was a kick. It meant that we (a) would roll past gigantic outlet malls, and (b) have space for things like the huge Creuset pots we bought. It also meant that I could cruise the excellent garbage tossed out by space-challenged Manhattanites. I got a new (slightly used) ironing board cover from a neighborhood laundromat. I skipped the ironing board itself.

News
12.11.2004/18:14
Bridge
OMG, how beautiful.

Sites
12.11.2004/09:42
Undead
WildChild at undead-world.com.

News
12.11.2004/09:39
Shots at school
"The district's elementary school officials are unaccustomed to dealing with potential drug-related situations, which explains why the Jell-O was not preserved and why a week passed before they turned the samples over to authorities, Katsanis said."

Photos
12.8.2004/10:50
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Village Tour, Wet Day
Grove St., Greenwich Village.

Photos
12.6.2004/10:25
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Store
Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York, NY.

Sites
12.6.2004/09:56
Heckle Depot
Heckle Depot.

News
12.6.2004/09:43
Poverty summit
"17 percent of Louisiana's residents, including one in four of the state's children, live in poverty."

Photos
12.4.2004/17:48
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Grove Court, December Night
Greenwich Village, NY.

Photos
12.3.2004/18:36
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BQE
Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

Photos
12.3.2004/18:35
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Jeff
23rd St. Station, Eighth Avenue Line, New York, NY.

Photos
12.3.2004/18:34
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Rodenticide
23rd St. Station, Eighth Ave Line, New York, NY.

Photos
12.3.2004/18:33
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Madison Avenue
New York, NY.

Photos
12.3.2004/18:33
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Dirty Laundry
Ours. Clinton, NC.

News
12.3.2004/08:58
Rats
"The New Orleans Grand Palace Hotel, ordered closed more than a week ago, has apparently solved its rodent problem and likely will reopen today."

News
12.3.2004/08:56
Hard to control
"Volunteers with the Wild Cat Foundation have trapped more than 700 feral felines this year, but it hasn't been easy."

News
12.1.2004/11:42
I Want One!
"Automakers and environmentalists say it's the biggest, wildest hybrid incentive they know of."

Sites
11.30.2004/10:01
Don't Shop!
My friend Steve sends a link to xmasresistance.org.

Photos
11.27.2004/16:20
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Strange Old Bird

Pelican in Southport, NC.

Photos
11.27.2004/09:48
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Pollution Fear
Southport, NC.

Photos
11.27.2004/09:46
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High and Dry
The town cemetery in Bryson City, NC, in keeping with a practice of the region, is located on a hill overlooking the town.

Sites
11.27.2004/08:00
Beautiful foliage
The Poinsettia Pages.

News
11.27.2004/07:56
Stuck with Christmas shopping
"It wasn't a terrorist thing. It was just a vandalism thing. They probably thought this would be humorous. They didn't think of the financial consequences."

Drivel
11.24.2004/17:04
Ritzy Food for the Gods
My friend Steve Leenhouts, who is living in Indonesia, writes:

Dear James,

Herewith I offer for your web site two photos of an odd subject that may be of interest to you and others.



These photos were taken in Bali, the famous resort island of Indonesia, located, by the way, just down the island chain from Flores, the site of the recent discovery of the 'little people'.

The Balinese prepare many daily offerings to various gods, but particularly to the God of the Mountain and the God of the Sea. They consider themselves caught in the middle between these two forces, and the gods must be balanced with offerings.

You can see that the offering contains the traditional elements: candle, flower petals, incense, rice and coconut. But a closer inspection in the second image reveals that the gods have evolved with new contemporary tastes! A Ritz cracker and a wrapped candy round off the meal for these latter day mod-gods.



I will be sure to send appropriate photo documentary evidence when Big Mac's start appearing in the offering baskets!

Photos
11.24.2004/16:59
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Fontana Dam Powerhouse
On the Little Tennessee River, in western North Carolina.

Photos
11.24.2004/16:03
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Fontana Dam
Damming the Little Tennessee River near Fontana Village, NC. Said to be the dam where Richard Kimble took his plunge in The Fugitive.

News
11.23.2004/08:23
If you can't make money, why not give it away?
"The New Orleans Aviation Board earlier this month authorized its concessions consultant to study ways for the airport to make money from the service, but board Chairman Dan Packer said he's willing to look into the possibility of offering the service for free."

News
11.23.2004/08:19
Oops!
"An error in the Lafayette Police Department's crime reporting software, which caused the number of reported rapes to be more than three times as high as it should have been, has resulted in Lafayette's new ranking as one of the Top 20 most dangerous metropolitan areas and Top 40 most dangerous cities in the country."

Sites
11.21.2004/18:53
Cracking dam
Fontana Problem.

Photos
11.21.2004/16:03
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Sylva Taxi Stand
The taxi stand on Spring St. at West Main St., in Sylva, NC.

Photos
11.21.2004/16:02
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Susan at Deep Creek
In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Bryson City, NC.

Photos
11.21.2004/16:01
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Deep Creek Trail
Great Smoky Mountaions National Park, near Bryson City, NC.

Photos
11.21.2004/16:00
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Footbridge at Juney Whank Falls
Great Smoky Mountaions National Park, near Bryson City, NC.

Sites
11.20.2004/10:27
Jesus H. Lizard
The Jesus Christ Lizard.

News
11.20.2004/10:20
New wave
"Bennett Raley, assistant Interior secretary for water and science, says he is optimistic this experiment will help develop strategies less radical than tearing down the dam to aid the canyon's ecology and recreation."

News
11.19.2004/08:16
Fiber optics for the future
"Durel compared bringing a fiber optic network to the city, to be run by city-owned Lafayette Utilities System, with the push for electricity more than 100 years ago."

Sites
11.18.2004/21:03
Llama, Duck...
The Llama Song.

Sites
11.16.2004/14:37
Slow Transit
All the way across America on a Segway!

Sites
11.16.2004/11:26
Water cycle
The Water Cycle.

News
11.16.2004/11:25
High-speed challenge
"Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Monday challenged a new state panel to come up with a plan to make sure all of rural Louisiana has high-speed, broadband Internet access within five years."

Photos
11.15.2004/21:12
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Dinner at L’Eglise
The annual Harvest Bacchanal Dinner held at L'Eglise, near Youngsville, LA, by the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana.

Photos
11.15.2004/21:11
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I Heart 21
Our friend Clara Little shows her support for her sister Madeline at an Academy of Sacred Heart volleyball game in Grand Coteau, LA.

Drivel
11.14.2004/16:50
Apple joke
Q. What would you use to transport 1000 Apple computers from New York to Chicago?

A. A Mac truck.

News
11.13.2004/09:57
Man Bites Dog
Man bites dog.

Sites
11.11.2004/08:55
You think your computer is old?
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
oldcomputers.net
old-computers.com
obsoletecomputermuseum.org

News
11.11.2004/08:26
Yum!
Komodo dragon lizard in the news.

News
11.10.2004/14:16
The Queen!
Love this photo!

News
11.10.2004/12:08
More harm than good
Bad stuff about Vitamin E.

Sites
11.9.2004/22:03
Do it to the south...
Now this is what I call a real rant.

Photos
11.9.2004/14:23
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Volleyball from the Balcony
The Academy of Sacred Heart hosts Fisher in a volleyball playoff match. ASH won and advances to state playoffs in New Orleans.

Sites
11.8.2004/21:57
Light pollution
Highly informative collection of satellite images of the earth at night. (via the unfailingly rewarding The Map Room)

News
11.8.2004/15:53
New Orleans as all cities
Lolis Elie has an interesting take on how New Orleans wound up being the spot where the putatively multi-citied bio-epic Ray was filmed.

News
11.8.2004/11:52
Follow me!
Human-led whooping crane migration.

Photos
11.8.2004/11:24
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At Gail and Bob’s
Near Grand Coteau, LA.

Sites
11.8.2004/10:49
Radio Disease Killer
My friend Raleigh alerted me to The Radio Disease Killer.

Sites
11.7.2004/19:56
Chupacabras, et. al.
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
cryptozoology.com

News
11.7.2004/19:51
Chupacabra corpse?
Not a chupacabra, doc says, just a grotesque, sickly coyote. But still...

Sites
11.7.2004/11:22
Metropolitan Flora
"While most of the botanical community concentrates on tracking the threats to biodiversity in the tropics, scientists at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are undertaking the most comprehensive study ever of the plant biodiversity in metropolitan New York."

Sites
11.7.2004/11:19
Keeps vampires away
The Stinking Rose.

Photos
11.5.2004/18:54
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Tire Tracks in Sand
Front Street, New Iberia, LA.

Photos
11.5.2004/18:48
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Cattails Next to Crawfish Pond
Near Loeauville, LA.

Photos
11.5.2004/18:46
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First Growth Sugar Cane
The sugar cane grown in Louisiana when first planted takes about 18 months to deliver a crop, and can then be cut back for two more crops in each of the following years. First growth, or "plant cane," is often seen in a field next to second- or third-growth cane.

Sites
11.5.2004/07:17
Flapping wings
Ornithopters.

News
11.5.2004/07:12
Fat fliers
"America's growing waistlines are hurting the bottom lines of airline companies as the extra pounds on passengers are causing a drag on planes."

Photos
11.4.2004/21:59
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Display Window Next to Filling Station
Main St., New Iberia, LA.

News
11.4.2004/11:54
In a rutting rut
Photo of a red deer at rutting time.

Drivel
11.3.2004/17:17
Hold the phone
The election is finally over, and there is one clear winner: me. That's because now my telephone will stop ringing with mechanically-generated campaign messages. I managed to make it all the way through to Election Day without hammering my portable phone to bits, and, to tell you the truth, I'm just a bit proud of that.

Sites
11.3.2004/17:16
Italians in Scotland
Famous Scots-Italians.

News
11.3.2004/09:15
Italians in Scotland
"Most Scots-Italians can trace their lineage directly back to the mass migration of the 1890s where their forefathers escaped famine, drought and poverty in their homeland for a better life in Scotland."

News
11.1.2004/10:41
Roo the day
Thirsty kangaroos in the news.

News
10.31.2004/21:58
Ouch!
Kamikaze magpies in the news.

Drivel
10.29.2004/09:28
Results, now!
As the Instant Gratification candidate, I ask you, are you better off now than you were ten minutes ago?

Drivel
10.29.2004/07:59
TGIF
Today really is a case of Thank God Its Friday for me. I have been working relentlessly to finish up some big projects and in the last few days I have finally got to feeling caught up. Although I have to work tonight, it's taking photos, which I always enjoy, and the rest of the day can in any case be taken at a less harried pace than I have been living and working recently. Now to see if I can really slow myself down.

Sites
10.29.2004/07:57
Little people
Overt at Slashdot, there are folks who really care about those newly discovered Hobbit-like little people.

News
10.29.2004/07:51
No more wallowing
Poor Red Sox fans. Even when they win, they lose: "If part of a long-time identity of being a Red Sox fan is a sense of suffering, a sense of not winning, a kind of camaraderie with other losers, you lost some of that."

Sites
10.28.2004/07:31
Election day draws near
A way you can help George Bush.

News
10.27.2004/20:23
Great radio man
Gone and deeply missed, John Peel, R.I.P.

Sites
10.27.2004/19:04
Toss it
Paper toss Flash game is an incredible waste of time. Enjoy!

Drivel
10.27.2004/14:45
More baseball
As I write this, the Red Sox, who were the first team in history to win a best of seven series after losing the first three games to the Yankees in the ALCS, are now themselves up 3-0. If they become the only team to have come from behind 0-3 and then to lose four in a row in the World Series, that really would be a curse. Undeniably. I would have to re-examine all my beliefs in the supernatural and the powers of vengeful ghosts.

Sites
10.26.2004/18:16
Careful...
Be safe.

News
10.26.2004/13:10
Today's top pick!
"The society estimates that over the past quarter-century, 250,000 volunteers have gleaned 461.5 million pounds of food that would have been dumped, plowed under or left to rot - but instead became 1.4 billion servings of food donated to the hungry."

Sites
10.25.2004/21:56
Tiny sized packages
Don't sweat the small stuff... buy it!

News
10.24.2004/21:19
Happy Hundredth!
On Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004, the New York subway will be 100 years old.

Sites
10.24.2004/11:15
Your answer, please!
So, just what is the meaning of life?

News
10.24.2004/11:12
Tax inequities?
"Guglielmo said the findings were 'too significant to be discounted or dismissed,' and she asked the assessors to deliver a plan for correcting the inequities quickly."

Sites
10.21.2004/23:04
This is sick
Oh boy! Collect the whole set of disease cards! Extra points if you actually contract the disease.

Drivel
10.21.2004/23:02
Wait until next year...
It's over for the Astros. But what a nice ride!

News
10.21.2004/08:57
Bag it
"Critics say the bags are not just a blight, but are wasteful, kill wildlife, pollute oceans and may be insinuating toxins into the food chain."

News
10.21.2004/08:53
Baseball fever
"After more than a week of nail-biting, marathon playoff action between two of the most bitter rivals in all of professional sports, millions of Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees fans may be weary and unable to focus on their jobs, relationships -- or even their families."

Sites
10.20.2004/09:06
Cluck cluck
Learn about the different breeds of chickens, ducks, etc..

News
10.20.2004/08:53
Shells tomorrow
"Under the jury award, the Plaquemines Parish oyster farmers stood to collect more than the total value of all oysters harvested in Louisiana in the past 100 years."

Sites
10.18.2004/11:06
Map-a-Planet
Map-a-Planet.

Drivel
10.18.2004/10:30
Astros...
Just in case you are wondering, I am finding that being a fan of the Houston Astros, tied with the St. Louis Cardinals 2-2 in the NLCS at this writing, is quite nerve-wracking. I was eight years old when the Astros (who started life as the Colt 45s) fired up their first season in Houston, displacing the Cardinals (for whom Harry Carey was then announcing the games, with Joe Garagiola, on KMOX) as the nearest baseball team and therefore that team deserving of my loyalty. Oh, the twists and turns of fate, as we wait...

Sites
10.18.2004/10:28
Fall foliage
"The source for accurate foliage information."

News
10.18.2004/10:24
Fall training
Oh, yeah! Fantastic model rail layout.

Photos
10.17.2004/14:07
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Cabin in the Sky
Bridge under construction, New Iberia, LA.

Photos
10.17.2004/14:07
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West Facing Windows
Upperline St., New Orleans, LA.

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