haha it just occured to me that i never posted anything about the 10k entry party. it was a lot of fun. it was nice to meet everyone. (e:ladycroft) maybe this fall we can go geocaching.
I made a friend at the gym this week. She's in her 60's, retired school teacher and can bench press 185lbs. Its quite fun to lift with her. sadly i think our relationship is short lived. she goes to the gym in the afternoon, I prefer to go in the am. :(
I'm glad this week is over. Work royally sucked, mostly because of a series of misunderstandings and the fact that the scheduling dept at buffalo general hospital is an evil department. Who puts their garbage can underneath the broken tray of the fax machine?! {im not kidding; for the longest time faxes were just falling into the garbage can and no one was pulling them out of the trash}
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08/12/2005 20:37 #20958
Oops08/07/2005 21:44 #20957
prioritiesDid anyone else happen to catch the small blurb in the newspapers about how the Discovery crew saw huge stretches of land that we have destroyed? Complete forestes just disappeared since the last time the shuttle was up in space?
It was in the paper monday or tuesday I think, it was shortly after the shuttle got into space.
Funny how that isn't on the news at all and a story about our continuted hunt for osama bin laden is. I wonder how regulated the government keeps our news feeds.
It was in the paper monday or tuesday I think, it was shortly after the shuttle got into space.
Funny how that isn't on the news at all and a story about our continuted hunt for osama bin laden is. I wonder how regulated the government keeps our news feeds.
paul - 08/07/05 21:44
aI reported on this last week :::link::: , (e:mike) says no one would know because I update to many times per day!
aI reported on this last week :::link::: , (e:mike) says no one would know because I update to many times per day!
uncutsaniflush - 08/07/05 19:02
One reason for the lack of news coverage is that it is not exactly news. Satellite imagery is easily available and the deforestration of the Amazon basin and areas in Asia and Africa has been reported on fairly often - even in the mainstream press.
The only newsworthy thing about it is that some American Astronauts noticed it and mentioned it to the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over the radio.
I don't think that the U.S. government needs to regulate news about the environment, most people just don't care what happens to the planet unless it specifically impacts them or people they know.
Here's a link to the story for those interested: :::link:::
One reason for the lack of news coverage is that it is not exactly news. Satellite imagery is easily available and the deforestration of the Amazon basin and areas in Asia and Africa has been reported on fairly often - even in the mainstream press.
The only newsworthy thing about it is that some American Astronauts noticed it and mentioned it to the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over the radio.
I don't think that the U.S. government needs to regulate news about the environment, most people just don't care what happens to the planet unless it specifically impacts them or people they know.
Here's a link to the story for those interested: :::link:::
08/07/2005 11:29 #20956
a-bombWhen I was 11 my dad took me to Japan with him. We spent three days in Hiroshima while he gave a talk at a conference. Our hotel was across the bridge from the peace park, the location where the bomb landed. Inside it was solemn and dead quiet. There weren't any people talking, there were no birds chirping. It was completely silent.
When you walked around the muesem, they had display after display after display of how horrid the atomic bomb was. There was a set of concrete stairs with just an outline of where the person was sitting. Their body had been evaporated by the blast. There were pictures of people trying to walk down the streets with their skin just falling off the them.
Further into the park, there were thousands of paper crane's in the grass. I guess the school kids made them every year to remember the people that had died.
The United States use of the Atomic bomb was a mistake. Future use of nuclear warheads will do nothing except probably seal our fate. It would take what, five ICBM's to completly knock out most of the country, if not make it entirely uninhabitable?
ugh.
When you walked around the muesem, they had display after display after display of how horrid the atomic bomb was. There was a set of concrete stairs with just an outline of where the person was sitting. Their body had been evaporated by the blast. There were pictures of people trying to walk down the streets with their skin just falling off the them.
Further into the park, there were thousands of paper crane's in the grass. I guess the school kids made them every year to remember the people that had died.
The United States use of the Atomic bomb was a mistake. Future use of nuclear warheads will do nothing except probably seal our fate. It would take what, five ICBM's to completly knock out most of the country, if not make it entirely uninhabitable?
ugh.
08/04/2005 22:22 #20955
Poof!I took the day off from work today. Wow! I so much stuff done it was incredible. No lines anywhere, just mostly middle aged women and kids all over the place.
After two hours of one-on-one training I am pretty sure my dog will now go to the end of the driveway and pick up the papers in the morning and bring them back to the door, provided the treat is already in my hand. I know he had it after the first try, the rest were just for the food. haha
After two hours of one-on-one training I am pretty sure my dog will now go to the end of the driveway and pick up the papers in the morning and bring them back to the door, provided the treat is already in my hand. I know he had it after the first try, the rest were just for the food. haha
08/04/2005 22:19 #20954
Poof!I took the day off from work today. Wow! I so much stuff done it was incredible. No lines anywhere, just mostly middle aged women and kids all over the place.
After two hours of one-on-one training I am pretty sure my dog will now go to the end of the driveway and pick up the papers in the morning and bring them back to the door, provided the treat is already in my hand. I know he had it after the first try, the rest were just for the food. haha
After two hours of one-on-one training I am pretty sure my dog will now go to the end of the driveway and pick up the papers in the morning and bring them back to the door, provided the treat is already in my hand. I know he had it after the first try, the rest were just for the food. haha
where the heck did you go? you dissapeared off of the face of the internet!
You betcha!