Quote of the Day July 20, 2008
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Community Comment archive for July 2008
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2008
Ten Ways to tell the Fire is out...
Good morning, Netizens...For the benefit of those of us who live outside the fire zone of the Valley View fire, but who are curious if the fire has really descended from front page news to “also ran”, here are ten ways to tell the Valley…
Picture of the Day July 19, 2008
Good morning, Netizens...Since on weekends we have no Word of the Day, we often find ourselves at the mercies of the Picture of the Day, which sometimes leaves us in intellectually-boring places. Perhaps not this morning.In this morning's picture, members of the press visit the…
FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2008
Bicycle or Car, or Bus, or Tennis Shoes
So, I'm thinking of riding a bike for the first time in 40 years. YIKES!This comes with mixed emotions. With gas prices rising close to the same as a house payment, a lot of us are considering alternative methods of transportation. Public transit, walking, car…
New hands-free cell phones for 8 cents!!!
Oh, Jesus...Here I am ready to leave for breakfast with MHibbs and John Olson sends me this priceless depiction of a new low-cost device (costs .08 cents) for your cell phone to keep you in strict compliance with the new hands-free law in Washington State.…
Picture of the Day --July 18, 2008
Good morning, Netizens...In today's Picture of the Day a Cambodian man walks at Preah Vihear temple near the Thai border north of Phnom Penh. (TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP/Getty Images) (July 17, 2008)The temple was built between the 9th and 11th Centuries, with most of the temple…
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008
Picture of the Day July 17, 2008
Good morning, Netizens...In this morning's picture of the day, courtesy of Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / July 15, 2008, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke prepares to testify before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington. Bernanke said risks to both…
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2008
Early morning Reverie -- July 16, 2008
Good morning, Netizens...As I slip quietly through the Virtual Garden just before dawn, all the Garden Gnomes are still sleeping in their covert caverns scattered here and there throughout the garden, and the morning mist is just beginning to lift. It is so silent at…
Quote of the Day July 16, 2008
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)
TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2008
Question: When is it OVER?
Good evening, Netizens...Here's one for you to consider. Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago but is dying of brain cancer in a California prison was denied compassionate release Tuesday. The California Board…
Alternative Quote of the Day...
Good evening, Netizens..." "We're going through a tough time, but our economy is growing, consumers are spending, exports continue increasing and American productivity remains strong," President George Bush told a news conference this afternoon.Oh?Where the hell is HE living these days?
Canada to deport U.S. Deserter
Good morning, Netizens...According to the Globe and Mail U.S. army deserter Robin Long is slated to be deported back to his army base in Fort Knox, Ky., Tuesday, which would make him the first resister to the U.S. war effort in Iraq to be sent…
MONDAY, JULY 14, 2008
This Bud's for you...well, maybe not.
Good morning, Netizens...Now when I was a drinking man, I suppose I probably do my part to defray the costs of the Anheuser-Busch Corporation, as I put away a lot of Budweiser Beer back then. Perhaps that is why, in reading the news of the…
Picture of the Day July 14, 2008
Good morning, Netizens...Participants enjoy mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong City, South Korea. The annual mud festival, now in its 11th year, features mud wrestling, mud sliding and a mud king contest. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) (July 12, 2008)Oh,…
Quote of the Day July 14, 2008
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2008
A hiatus for an afternoon...
Good afternoon, Netizens...Off we go, for the first time in several weeks, with friends Garry and Terresa-Monroe Hamilton to an undisclosed location for a relaxing afternoon and some lunch in the wilds of Idaho. I've had my deep slumber nap, the afternoon awaits me like…
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2008
Amazing Pete Seeger department...
Good afternoon, Netizens...Just when you would think that aging Pete Seeger has all but disappeared from the world of music, he goes and does something that is like... well, like something Pete Seeger would do.In Brattleboro, Vermont, Seeger will headline a Sept. 13 New England…
Quote of the Day July 12, 2008
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. Larry Hardiman
Pot Heads Fantasy--Picture of the Day 07/12/2008
Good morning, Netizens...This morning's picture is a pot head's dream. Here a soldier from Colombia walks among packs of seized marijuana at a military base in Cali, Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora) (July 11, 2008)This brings a new term for our Word of the Day…
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2008
Pre-Gathering Reverie July 11, 2008
Good afternoon, Netizens...(Sung to the tune of “When the Moon Shines Over the Cow Shed” AKA K-K-Katie...It's another Friday, a wonderful Friday, It's the bestest kind of day I'll ever have.Because my work's done, yes all my work's doneAnd now I have time to meet…
Defensible living...
Good morning, Netizens...If you are among the very lucky this morning, you awoke when your alarm clock went off, and groaning to yourself at the thought of another Day in the World, you went about the business of making yourself presentable for contemporary society. On…
Quote of the Day July 11, 2008
Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2008
SPOKANE BURNS -- AGAIN
Good evening, everyone...One of many homes in the Dishman area burns. More to follow.Dave
Wild Card Thursday July 10, 2008
Good morning, Netizens...It is a curious daybreak this morning, outside the Virtual Ballroom in the Garden, not too hot for the sweet corn, simply delectable for the baby strawberries and the flowers that line the path leading from the street to the Virtual Ballroom are…
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2008
The sky is falling! The Internet is broken!
Good afternoon, Netizens...BULLETIN: The Internet is broken. I got you with that one, didn't I? Actually what has happened is that CERT, which is part of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,…
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