Ramblings and Travels

The Associated Press: Tropical Storm Bill forms in the Atlantic Watch out world, here I come on a rough and stormy day!

edfaдивани Last weekend, I helped take a Troop of Boy Scouts up to Big Pine Creek, and we stayed in Palisade Group Campsite. While the boys and the rest of the adults went to fish for dinner, Jorge and I hiked up towards Palisade Glacier. That’s an 8 mile one way outing. We didn’t get [...]

Well, we have a confession: The man who blew up Wall Street. How Michael Osinski Helped Build the Bomb That Blew Up Wall Street — New York Magazine . Good read. A little bit of code, a few interesting ideas, expanded upon over a few decades, and *bam* he causes the entire economy to melt down. His [...]

Don’t you just love it when you get a very important work email on a paid holiday? Hopefully my answer will suffice until Monday when I’m able and willing to put actual effort into researching their question. It’s a good one though, and I don’t want them to feel blown off. I just want to [...]

I had thought I had seen or heard of almost everything to happen in small time politics, but this is a new one by me. Duncanville council member hospitalized, facing charges after heated meeting | Duncanville City Councilman Paul Ford hospitalized during council meeting | pegasusnews.com | Dallas / Fort Worth Having an outspoken and [...]

In Homeowners’ Latest Woe, Banks Are Skipping Foreclosures – NYTimes.com Wow. So what happens when the bank decides to cancel the foreclosure auction? The property goes into limbo. The title is still in the “owner’s” name. The city can go after the title holder for maintenance and vandalism problems, which can strike them completely unaware if they vacated the [...]

Agency says inexperience led to NFL boating deaths – Los Angeles Times On February 28th, 2009, a 21 foot fishing boat overturned about 50 miles offshore from Florida. A very sad, tragic event, with only one survivor. Three other people were not found. If not for the fact that two of the four people missing were [...]

Today, I went back up to Amargosa and back. A few notes: Many Denny’s restaurants are closing. At least one in Victorville, and the one in Baker is now a Pancake House. The good news is that it has all you can eat pancakes for 3.99. They only open at 6am though, which is a [...]

Last week, my father and my brother went up to Nevada to look at some wells and drilling equipment. On the way back, they saw a downed aircraft next to an airfield. I thought my aviation inclined readers might like to see some pictures, so here’s the link:  MobileMe Gallery – 3/2/09 Trip

Water falling from the sky. Water falling from the ground. Water on the ground