tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61215702012-01-11T16:03:17.888-09:00"Greed is a weapon of mass destruction"Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278869900081036989noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6121570.post-2865185798797280212009-02-21T00:15:00.001-09:002009-02-21T00:15:22.383-09:00

luckyOriginally uploaded by hunkyLast night during a snow storm this plane flew into Newton Peak. All survived.

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Anchorage has this airport they call the Ted Stevens International Airport. I'm thinking that maybe they'll just paint stripes on it. Perhaps make it sort of like a theme park - based on a prison setting. Put up bars on the waiting areas. Special areas for conjugal visits..

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From Architecture 2030 (above image as well):According to the US Energy Information Administration, oil production from drilling offshore in the outer continental shelf wouldn't begin until around the year 2017. Once begun, it wouldn't reach peak production until about 2030 when it would produce only 200,000 barrels of oil per day (in yellow above). This would supply a meager 1.2% of total US

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two bearsOriginally uploaded by hunkySaw these at mile 27, Kougarok Rd. while looking at an eagle's nest. They had been chewing on what looked like a moose kill. A group of birders also watching the eagle nest were excited when I pointed out the bears - which eventually headed towards them. Rick A. had pointed out a sow and two cubs earlier at mile 13 or so just before these guys.

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checking us outOriginally uploaded by hunkyBears are back

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Western sandpiperOriginally uploaded by hunkyBirds are back.

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I need to make a catagory on things that rile me up. This morning it was a program on NPR radio - morning edition.Steve Inskeep was interviewing a women (didn't catch her name) about how Iran is causing the USA problems in Iraq. The whole dang piece was built on the tortured confessions of 3 young men. In the news piece, Steve even said that the men were in such bad shape from torture that they

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Adrenaline gave me a good workout yesterday during my daily noon workout at our rec center. Reason being I nearly got run over by an idiot 4-wheeler driver - some mental moron - as I was riding my bicycle to the gym. Stewing about the near death experience (I wasn't wearing a helmet) kept my mind off my old age aches and pain while I worked on upper body strength exercises.I was riding my bike

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Imagine if someone came up with a technology that could displace considerably the use of oil. Whole countries could see the loss of billions of dollars. Or any of the multitude of industries that currently profit off oil products might lose their business. Think they might want to protect their assets from loss at about any cost? (I happen to believe the United States actually went to war with

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I don't know - I guess I should rename this blog something like Angry Man. That's probably taken though. This world, mainly our corporate state, is pissing me off regularly.On the subject of food, the more I learn about the crap the corporations are putting in or on it, the less I enjoy eating. One problem about living in the sub-arctic - not many organic farms around. I'm not going to list the

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snowhills of imajanation Originally uploaded by hunky. This is just too good to pass up.Someone posted these signs all around this little subdivision. The city "bulldozes" the snow at the end of the streets to get snow off the roads. Kids are apparently upset about it.It says: "Bulldozers are recing [wrecking] childrens snowhills of imajanation" You can click on the image to go to a larger

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So Nome struggles with plastic grocery bags blowing all over the country from the landfill and also around town and country from people's carelessness. A lot probably blows right out to sea, as that is the prevailing wind direction. If anyone cares, here is a site that talks about the problem of plastic bags and also that of paper bags, which could be worse. www.cleangreenbags.com/One of their

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278869900081036989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6121570.post-1159499903964358552006-09-28T17:46:00.000-08:002006-09-28T22:32:23.130-08:00

It has been awhile since the last post as I struggle with how I want to deal with this blog, if at all. But I do need to vent occasionally, and with the Congress passing this torture bill which is also the "buck doesn't stop here - no accountability" bill, I just need to say something.So now we are about to join the torture community - all those despot type countries we've been taught through our

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Zana Briski

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Thursday evening an acquaintance George called and said that Jason hadn't shown up the night before (Wednesday night.) Jason rents a room in George's house. Jason is an early 20's year old guy that plays in a bluegrass band as a mandolin player. He is also great on fiddle and guitar. Carol and I had that band come up in June for our folkfest, and Jason liked it so much that he came to work here

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I love Americans that sacrifice for all of us. Those that put themselves into hardship so that we may retain what makes us American - civil liberties. Those liberties have taken a bad hit in the last few years - but some people still struggle to retain what we have left.This case caught my attention, thanks much to Boingboing.net .A 50 year old mother of four who lives and works in Denver,

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Fascism A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. Oppressive, dictatorial control. A high school student made an

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Here's a quote I found on the web attributed to Hunter S. Thompson, who recently left this world. He was an interesting author."We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world--a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how

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Sarah C. Hanson, singer (the bestest), is visiting us from Fairbanks. Whoo-hoo. She stayed in the Discovery Saloon with us for a weekend - did a lot of good for the schools and put on a nice show for the denizens of Nome. She has a blog, but unable to update it recently due to some authentication problems:http://sarahchanson.com/news/index.html

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Window Originally uploaded by hunky. Was a bar in 1900, then a house in 1916. We've been insulating the walls, fixing windows, and residing. It was sided in aluminum in the 70's, so we're peeling that off and redoing the cedar siding.

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Today the President swore to uphold the constitution. I wish the guy would read it - or have someone who knew what it was about explain it to him. Maybe then he would undo some of the damages done during his first term. I saw Unconstitutional tonight, a documentary about, well, mostly the Patriot Act. Wow. Wish everyone who loved this country could take a gander at that movie. I think it may be

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I've been completely disgusted with our government with going to war against Iraq. Namely because I never believed the Weapons of Mass Destruction lie or the al Qaeda link and couldn't believe anyone did believe that drivel. I just figured it was a way to get the administration's buddies, or base as Bush was quoted saying in the Moore movie, rich with oil and rebuilding contracts. But I just

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What a tragedy. I've been pouring over the news on the net and feel heartsick for the victims. I finally got bittorrent working on linux - new version of azureus seems to work for me. So I've been able to watch some of the videos - shocking stuff. This is the kind of time I actually wish I had television so I could watch some news about this terrible catastrophy. (But t.v. is such a terrible

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sheesh, So I spent a bunch of time trying to work ardour last night. Program crashes and general mayhem.. don't even remember what all but it was enough to make me go back to win98 - for sound editing anyway. So there I was, booting every half hour as I was updating Win98.. getting it up to speed on a fresh install. With this fresh install, I had a bunch of crashes as well. This could be in

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I gave up this blog in frustration of not being able to make any changes. Something changed which now allows me to edit the blog, so maybe I'll give it another go. Either I got smarter or it just wasn't working earlier. BTW, I got everything working, seemingly, so now just have to learn the programs.. ardour and whatnot. /j

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Just curious if I'll do this or not. Right now I am struggling to use linux. I really want to do some sound editing from some recordings I made and have gone down this path. I am emerging from Win98 and Cool Edit. I just built a computer (Abit IS-7, 2.8Ghz Intel with Sata) and now when I want to re-install Cool Edit I can no longer do updates. Cool Edit is now in Adobe's house, and they want

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