Highway collapse

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_re_us/highway_collapse

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Love this picture of Casey.

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Took Nico for a dip in coyote creek near Anderson's Reservoir. For the rest of the photos in the set click here

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More pics of the humming birds from today.

111 days in the Sahara.

check out this website

It is a video of the trek across the sahara.

baby hummingbirds

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Here are the latest photos of the baby hummingbirds. More pics on flickr in the latest set here

Crazy that this still goes on

A half century after the Supreme Court ended racial segregation, parents and students in Ashburn, Ga., were still clinging to old ways, holding whites-only and blacks-only dances. This spring, the school finally broke that color barrier.

click here to read more

Mac and Viruses...

Policosanol

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Policosanol (or polycosanol) is the generic term for a natural extract of plant waxes. It is used as a nutritional supplement to lower (bad) LDL cholesterol and increase (good) HDL cholesterol and to help prevent atherosclerosis.

I am interested to see if this will work...I am starting on it today. I don't want to try lipitor or crestor or vitorin as these drugs can have nasty side effects.

Check out article about NFLD in Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042000651.html

Celebrate Earth Day...

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I like the pic of the lady. Found it on flickr when type an Earth Day search. The picture of planet earth is from Nasa.

"Man does not weave the web of life but is a part of it, what man does to this web he does to himself" - Chief Seattle

Dumbed down version: "Kill the Earth...Kill ourselves."

There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin.

Oakland Pizza Shop Owner Fatally Shoots Alleged Robber

Posted April 21, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The owner of a popular pizza shop opened fire on three robbery suspects, killing one of them and apparently wounding his own son.

Catarino Piedra, 41, who owns Coliseum Pizza and Taqueria in East Oakland, won't be charged with a crime because prosecutors determined he was acting in self-defense, Alameda County Assistant District Tom Rogers said Friday.

Piedra said he feared for his life, and those of his wife and three children, when he began shooting at three men who tried to rob the store after 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

"I was scared," Piedra said. "I had to defend my family."

He told police he kept a gun under the counter because his delivery drivers were frequently robbed.

The shots killed Allen Joseph Hicks III, 22, an aspiring rap artist known as "Boonie." Hicks was armed with a pistol when he and two other men tried to rob the store, police said. This is so stereotypical, what was he trying to get some street cred????

Hicks was on probation for a marijuana conviction, and was facing battery charges when he died, police and court records show.

Police believe Piedra may also have accidentally shot his 17-year-old son, who was not seriously wounded. You are more likely to kill someone you know with a gun if you use it for self defense.

Oakland police said Piedra appeared justified, but cautioned citizens against arming themselves.

Friends left messages, balloons, candles and bottles of cognac at a makeshift memorial honoring Hicks on Friday.It is good to know that criminals are still loved...

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Daughter of slain professor calls for tougher gun laws

The daughter of a Canadian professor who was killed in the Virginia Tech shootings says she is going push to change the state's gun laws. (click title to read).

good luck with that...but they will never change those laws, it is a lost cause.

Conservative Media blames victims in Virginia Tech Shooting

Only what passes for media in America would resort to blaming the victims of the Virginia Tech Shooting for freezing or not "rushing their attacker". My God, these people are crazy. They are blaming innocent dead people for not having enough exposure to violence and not knowing what to do.

You are on your way to class and all of a sudden people around you are falling like leaves and you are supposed to rush the guy and do what??? Some Chuck Norris move? May be we should start firing rounds off near our children to get them used to the sound of gunfire and violence at an early age. Maybe we should send our little kids to Iraq for grades 4 and 5. This story is sickening.

School should be a safe haven from a violent world.

click here to read.

Finally an alternative

As anyone that has been to Burgeo knows, high speed internet there costs over $30 a month and download speeds are often as slow 20 kbs with uploads about the same. This is awful. In my opinion, very basic high speed internet is at least 386 kbs but real high speed is at least 2000-12000 kbs see www.comcast.com or www.att.com

So according to this article http://www.thecharter.ca/index.cfm?iid=2459&sid=20766
a company called persona is finally installing fiber optic cable all along the south coast under water. This is great now maybe I will be able to video chat with my parents using skype and Burgeo will leap into the new millennium.

To check the speed of your connection try
www.internetfrog.com
www.speedtest.net

Winter in Burgeo, Newfoundland 2007

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A while ago (1999) at a nursing job fair in St. John's, a recruiter for the Health Science Center told Marsha the best they could offer a new grad was the chance to live in Newfoundland (working casual or perdiem with no benefits).

Yeah... they might want to rethink that stance and sweeten the pot because I know from experience once you are spoiled with sunny weather all year long, scenes like this just make you shiver! Once a nurse is lost from NFLD to go to warmer pastures I would venture to say that not many of them return.

Cool Product!!!! (click to visit website)

What is Solio?

Solio™, the Universal "Hybrid" Charger is powerful enough to charge all of your handheld electronic products at home or on the move, anywhere under the sun.

Solio is a Hybrid because it can accept power from either the wall socket or Sun storing this energy within Solio's internal rechargeable battery. Solio then uses this energy to power your gadgets at the same rate as if they were plugged into the wall. Solio will also hold its charge for up to a year.

Solio limits your need to purchase and carry around multiple chargers for all of your gadgets and is your one stop charging solution for all of your products from cell phones and iPods, to digital cameras, game players, and GPS.

One hour of sun will give you enough juice to play your iPod™ for about an hour or provide up to 25 mins of additional talk time on most cell phones.

When fully charged Solio can store enough power to charge a typical cell phone or an iPod Nano at least two times. Have you plugged into the Sun lately?

Provides emergency power for your mobile gadgets anywhere you go.

• Provides an emergency power source when away from power outlets
• Interchangeable power tips allow you to power multiple gadgets with a single charger ( tips for most products included in pack)
• Works with multiple gadgets, including mobile phones, Bluetooth® headsets, smartphones/PDAs, MP3 players, portable gaming devices, digital cameras, GPS and more
• Reusable - use it again and again
• Compact lightweight design - convenient for travel or emergency use

Missed an episode?

If you missed an episode of your favorite Fox tv show such as 24 you can go to http://www.myspace.com/fox

and watch it for free online compliments of FOX. You do need a decent internet connection though.

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Check out the new photos I have on flickr. This is one pic from the latest set.

Boo got Shot

click here to go to site to listen to the mp3, this is very funny
http://web.mac.com/jamieandmarsha/iWeb/Site/Movies%26Music.html

or download it to your computer here

see "Boo Got Shot"

Real Estate course

Went to a Real Estate course today at De Anza College. It is simple and to the point no hype, no rich dad poor dad or Donald Trump, just candidness. Anyway I have a file on my website on the links page that can be downloaded of the info covered in the session.

Hummingbird babies

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Picture is blurry and not focused but I was tired, I just got off night shift. Anyway, there are two hummingbird babies in this nest built on top of our wind chimes.

Racism rears its ugly head once again in America

Xenophobia is a growing problem in the US. From Michael Richard's (aka Kramer) rant a few months ago to this guy (in the clip above) just recently...America has a problem. It goes both ways though, just watch the clip below from this guy Dr. Kamau Kambon who calls for the extermination of white people. How is this guy any different from David Duke. Is it okay to say these things if you are black? Of course not. I would venture to say humans love to find reasons to hate their neighbor. Take Rwanda for example (see Rwanda genocide). When the Dutch occupied it they designated (arbitrarily) people into two groups, Hutu and Tutsis. The Hutu were the "whiter" of the black people and the Tutsis were delegated to the role of servant class even though both groups were exactly the same physically and in all other aspects. This was an artificial division created by the Dutch which I take as proof that people will take even fabricated differences to use as an excuse to hate one another. It is a sad state of affairs.

Emily and jake April 2007

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Emily

Jake April 2007

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Jake

Jake Birthday

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Jake's birthday

Koit Tower San Francisco

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Like this pic. It looks so bleak. Surprisingly, it did not rain.

MMA

Where I do Krav Maga now offers a full program to prepare people "from scratch" for UFC, pride type mixed martial arts fighting. I am not doing that but it is cool none the less. http://academyselfdefense.com/mixed-martial-arts.html

Cool song by a group from Sweden, very 60's

Quote

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
- Evan Esar

April Fool's!!!!

I thought this latest innovation by google would be too disgusting to catch on. April Fool's!!!!

Google has lost its mind

Seriously, I thought this was joke. Log on to www.google.com and click on the TISP. Apparently google is offering free broadband internet service but there is a catch. You install the router into your toilet. I am serious. Google has worked with utility companies in the US and Canada and installed fiber optic cable at 1000s of access points in local sewer systems and since every home has a toilet it is one part genius and 2 parts insanity. You sign up for it, they send you a router and a long cable that is water proof. You flush the cable down the toilet and in an hour your connection is active and you are surfing the net at a download speed of 8mbs and for free. You can go even faster if you want to pay. This is so bizarre. Oh yeah and you can still use your toilet like you normally would. And you thought there was crap on the internet before??? Direct link to more info click here.


Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

"I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."

Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html.

About Google Inc.
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