Lindsay told me to

Lindsay told me to write something.

So here it is!

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Waterfall at Clear Creek, Grand Canyon National Park

 

 

The more I look at this photo, the more pleased I am. There are a few faults, stemming from this being a handheld shot, but all in all, I like it.

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Grand Canyon 2011

A group portrait at the Vermillion Cliffs on the road to Lee's Ferry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A group portrait at the Vermillion Cliffs on the road to Lee’s Ferry.

 

 

 

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SmugMug testing- wp-smugmug

I’m testing out various SmugMug plugins for WordPress. This is from the plugin WP-Smugmug. So far, so good.

 

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testing

testing smugmug again

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Scout Fishing Fundraiser Trip

иконописсвети илияOn April 9, I’m hosting a Friends of Scouting Fundraiser fishing trip to Catalina Island. We’ll be going out on the Liberty, from Long Beach Sportfishing.

Check out our Facebook page at Frontier District FOS Fishing Trip.

The Liberty will leave the dock at 5am sharp. Cost of the trip is $95, and includes lunch, rental fishing rod/reel, tackle and bait. If you have your own fishing equipment, there will be a discount. This trip is open to everyone, Scouts, Scouters and Friends of Scouting, or people who just like to go fishing!

Funds raised will help send youth to summer camp, and help with fine Scouting Programs across the Los Angeles Area Council.

Please contact me for more information, or download our Frontier District Fishing Trip Flyer!

 

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Obit: The man who created Lake Powell

кухненско обзавежданеFloyd Dominy, who was director of the Bureau of Reclamation for 1959 to 1969, passed away at the age of 100.

The timing is interesting to me, as I’m half way through the book Dead Pool, and just finished the section on the creation of Lake Powell, ending with Dominy being forced from office.

Dominy has been remembered mostly as a villain for damming Glen Canyon and creating Lake Powell, but there can be no doubt that the jewel he created has been visited and enjoyed by many people, myself included. Without Dominy, most of those visitors probably would never of heard of Glen Canyon, nor visited that remote part of the country. For sure, many people would never visit Rainbow Bridge, which is either a 4 day hike across the Navajo Indian Reservation or an hour boat ride across Lake Powell.

While Glen Canyon was a prize without compare, a rolling gentle  paradise compared to the rough and wild  Grand Canyon to the south, far fewer people had visited, or even heard of it. Now, thanks to Dominy, far more people have enjoyed it, even half filled with water, than would of seen it in the natural state.

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Planes with Lasers in the nose

Reagan’s Star Wars idea has long been derided as pie in the sky, impossible, waste of funding. As a nation, we’ve approached it from a few different perspectives: missile interceptors (hitting a bullet with a bullet) from land or sea (I like the sea based ones, far more mobile), ground based lasers (Tom Clancy’s Cardinal in the Kremlin approached some of those issues). Now, finally, an airborne laser has knocked a test ICBM down.

Sure, it was versus a liquid fueled rocket, not a solid fuel one (Soviet style was liquid, the US has used solid fuel for a long time), which is easier to detonate, in the air or during maintenance on the ground. Easier to environmentally dispose of though. Anyway, it’s a good first start. We can debate the economic logistics of it, but if it can help keep missiles on the ground and out of the air, great. It probably is useless for a long while against a Cold War style missile attack (MAD), but against a potential rouge state with a dozen missiles? This will certainly help some people sleep easier at night.

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How to root and tether your Droid

Tether capability with android-wifi-tether Wireless Tether for Root Users – Droid Forum – Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

I’m posting this as a reminder of something I want to read later on, and it might be useful to other people out there.

Read it once, then read it again. Print it out and read it while you implementing  it.

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Any news is good news?

With the idea that if you’re being talked about, even in a bad way, it’s good for you, a former legislator from South Dakota says he has copyrighted his name. From jail. So anyone writing an article about him will owe $500,000. More than a little ridiculous of course, since merely writing a news story about someone or something is not copyright or trademark infringement.

Source: New York Times

Ex-Lawmaker Convicted of Rape – Name Is Copyrighted – NYTimes.com

I’m torn. Do I try to abuse his name, and not pay the “fee”, or do I refuse to give him publicity? I usually side on not giving publicity or attention to those who are looking for it, but then I feel as if I’m being pressured into not using his name. Still, the guy is a convicted felon.

Ted Alvin Klaudt is the guys name. Sosumi

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