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CA's Prop. 8

I don't live in California, but I do like some of the ads that I have seen against Proposition 8. Here are two in particular that I like:


Freedom is a Republican Value



Love Poem

5 Friends PSA

I saw this yesterday and posted a link on, but here it is embeded. If you want to skip the video, and go to the related web site it is at http://maps.google.com/vote.

Quote of the day

Today, we overslept, and everyone was rushing to get dressed. Since I work from home, normally, I wear shorts, but today, I was attending a memorial service for a friends mom. So I was wearing slacks and a button down shirt and getting a tie and sports coat out of the closet, when my daughter comes in to the bedroom.

Megan: I thought today was a school day.
Me: It is.
Megan: Then why are you dressed like a minister?

Stray - part II

Today the phone rang. The gentleman on the other end of the phone line said he had seen our sign about a lost and found dog. I let him describe the dog, and then told him where we lived. I would have driven over there, but we were hosting a birthday party, and I couldn't leave. I gave him our address, and he said he would come over. Before he got off of the phone, he told me that the dog's name was Jake, and that he was a very friendly dog.

He is a very friendly dog. I was pretty sure that this was the owner. He showed up about 35 minutes later. Anyone who would come that far for a mixed breed dog was probably the owner. When he went into the backyard, there was no doubt.

We had decided that the dog should be named Houdini, because he had gotten out of our backyard, or out of our garage, or out of his leash. We had taken him to the vet, because we had our own dog, and were spending time around him. I also had trouble believing that anyone would not be out day after day looking for signs, so more then a week after the dog coming into our possession, I didn't think we would ever find the owner.

I'll admit that I was getting a bit attached to him. I was the own who fed him and walked him most days. The walks were some nice alone time. He responded very well to me. We were working on getting him used to sleeping in a crate, because if we were going to keep him, we were probably going to transition him to being an indoor/outdoor dog.

Ike hits Galveston

I used to live in Galveston, so I remember many of the places that I am seeing on the tv. I have been following the storm via twitter, and saw someone say that a pier had collapsed. I searched, and was trying to find video or a story which said which one. One of the first videos that I found was supposed to be about the pier, but most of the video was following someone who had not left the island. Here is the web page for the story.



bear on the beach

Large Hadron Collider

I hadn't realized that the Large Hadron Collider was so close to being online. This is a cool bit of science. Webcam views can be seen at http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html. Information can be found at http://science.howstuffworks.com/large-hadron-collider.htm.

I know there was a lot of controversy over this as some people believe it will destroy the Earth by dropping a microscopic sized black hole into the center of the earth. My understanding (admittedly very little education in this area, but I have read a little) is that the microscopic black hole would have to have the mass of a mountain in order to not evaporate. We're smashing protons together. I think we are pretty safe for now. That does remind me of a conversation that I had a while back. If such a black hole did fall into the Earth's core, the resulting black hole (after the earth had been devoured) still wouldn't destroy the solar system, like some people claim. Since it's original mass was the mountain+the earth, it would most likely orbit the sun and still have the moon orbiting it. Quite a site for some future ET, don't you think?

I just love watching the webcams. It feels a little voyeuristic, but I think it's fun to see such dedicated people at work.