June.  Just saying it sounds odd... it sort of feel like 2008 only just begun, and its already almost half way done!

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I got this in an email... its an oldie, but with the updated names, it remains a goodie!  :-)

Obama seems to have won the Dem's nod as their choice... out of two bad choices, they've picked the worst one.

Now the real run for the Whitehouse can begin!  I'm not sure if Obama knows what's coming!

I like this quote from McCain: “The American people didn’t get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama,” McCain said. “They know I have a long record of bipartisan problem-solving. They’ve seen me put our country before any president, before any party, before any special interest, before my own interest.”

“He is an impressive man who makes a great first impression,” McCain said. “But he hasn’t been willing to make the tough calls, to challenge his party, to risk criticism from his supporters, to bring real change to Washington. I have.”

The Navy veteran and former Vietnam prisoner of war noted that Obama opposed the troop-increase strategy that has been credited with helping to curb violence, and he pointedly accused Obama of withholding money from troops.

“Senator Obama opposed the new strategy, and, after promising not to, voted to deny funds to the soldiers who have done a brilliant and brave job of carrying it out,” McCain said.

“He is an impressive man who makes a great first impression,” McCain said. “But he hasn’t been willing to make the tough calls, to challenge his party, to risk criticism from his supporters, to bring real change to Washington. I have.”

 

64 years ago, the one of the most monumental events in US history took place... D-Day.  Its hard to imagine just how difficult a task those troops faced -- I was watching Private Ryan at the theater when it came out.  I was sitting next to an older guy, so I asked, "Were you there?", which caused me to miss "The Twenty", talking with him.  He was an infantryman during the war, and landed in the first wave.  Less than 10 guys he'd landed with actually made it through the war.  After the movie's opening minutes, when they showed the landing, he said, "It was worse than that."  Pretty Intense

PBS actually has a pretty good interactive page set up... I'm not normally a fan of PBS, but they did an ok job on this one.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

The Shadow Lady's company uses a lot of singular names for websites within their Intranet... so the habit is to type just of the name of the place you want, and the proxy fills in the rest... so today, she was on her work computer at home, and wanted to check Facebook's website... she typed "Facebook", and this is what the proxy directed her to... =]

June 6th, 2008 5:27 PM Eastern

First Pitch Surprise!

by Adam Housley

As many of you know I am a huge baseball fan and have covered many a story that crosses over to the news side of things. This one takes the cake for our national pastime. Last year we covered military opening day with the San Diego Padres and no other professional team goes as far as they do to support our men and women in uniform. While covering the Padres on this occasion and a few others, we became friends with their PR staff’s which include George Stieren and Warren Miller. They just had their colleague Erik Meyer send me the story and video of 11-year-old Brad Warnick, joined on the mound by mother Irene and 8-year-old sister Ashley, who thought they were just representing the USS Midway Museum in San Diego in honor of their fathers service in the Navy.

BUT…..dressed in full Padres catching gear behind the plate was Petty Officer 1st Class Rick Warnick, their father & husband. Petty Officer Warnick is part of the crew currently deployed on the USS Nimitz, scheduled to return next month. Warnick was flown home early to surprise his family on the field through cooperative efforts of the USS Midway Museum and the Navy. This video is what it’s all about.

OK, the first week of June was the coldest we'd had in June, since 1911... and today's temperatures were the coldest since 1838!  Seems "Global Warming" has taken a break...

Across the globe, temperatures are down... May only made it to the 12th warmest as far as "temperature anomalies" go in the Atlantic... many scientists, including the founder of The Weather Channel, are seeming to be proven right when they say the planet is at the cusp of a cooling trend...  The continuation of the cycle that caused folks in the 1970's to say that we were in the grips of a growing ice age, and we need to do something drastic to keep us all able to live on our planet...

I'm just wondering if Big Al will start saying we caused the impending Ice Age, and try and win another Nobel Prize!
 

Sorry the posts are getting fewer and farer between... I'm pegged!

I'm working on a way to make the posts easier for me to do, which should increase their frequency... once I get a few more hours of spare time to finish the webservice, that is...   Hopefully, before too long!
 

Its coming soon, though... =]

Speaking of changes to the site... have you seen the revamped "Flashback" page?  It used to be called "phases", and I was on "phase 9" of my website, but then I found some old shots from earlier than phase 1, so I would have had to renumber them all... so I instead just renamed the section, and went by the year they came out, which is how I did it originally, when I set the page up in 2000.

I was looking through old folders on a CD backup I took in 2001, and found some old pictures of my websites that I thought were long gone... the "Windows 3.1" version, though, is a small version of the graphic I used on the site to make the site... I never did take a screenshot of the website in action...

The Site in 1996, and in 1998

Its fun to look back and see the changes!  The site changed from the way it looked in 2007, even... its pretty interesting how the little tweaks add up...

The Site in 2007, and now, in 2008

 

 

The face of change on my website:

http://www.mypnw.us/about/changes/flashback/Default.aspx

A few weeks ago, when I was driving in to work (yep, I have to do that some times), I drove by Stan's Fish n Chips, on Rainier Avenue (or is it Boren, at that point?).  We went there several months ago ("We made it to Stans" - Oct 12, 2007), and we enjoyed it.

Well, on this day, I noticed that they'd put up fencing around the property, and everything is boarded up, and they have a large dumpster on the lot... seems Stan's is going the way of "Progress", and Seattle looses a bit of its Flavor... in this case, LITERALLY.

I added 40 new pictures that will show up on the "header" banner... I got side-tracked when I was sorting through my pictures, which I hadn't done since mid-May... when you take a lot, and you get behind, then you get WAY behind... =]

These things are fun, because they evoke a memory... I took them all, in case you were wondering, and they range from Oregon, Washington, and some in Alaska and Idaho... but mostly in the Puget Sound and Cascades to Coast areas...

Here's a few of the new ones...

Oregon, near Haystack Rock

Sitka Bay, in Alaska

The glowing Lava Dome, Mt St Helens, WA

Walking in to Safeco Field

Brewster Lake, in the park in our neighborhood

Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Johnston Ridge Observatory, Mt St Helens

Submarine returning to base, in the moonlight.

Cape Blanco Lighthouse

There's more... and lots more to come!  =]

Here's what 85 hours in a week looks like... =] and that's only ONE shelf...

 

 
Seems there's something going on up in Alaska... 5 earthquakes in the last hour, and one earlier this morning... interesting.

I haven't seen anything on the news, and the USGS site doesn't seem particularly interested in it either... but its interesting to me... =]  I looked on Live Maps... there's not much there:

I guess there's a fault there that's letting some pressure off... we'll have to keep an eye out for it in the news.
 

Added in 2008

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