Recently in Current Events Category
The earthquake a in VA a half-hour ago rattled my workplace in the RTP. Which makes me want to promote these worthy causes:
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I saw an article on Starbucks changing its logo this morning, but the image of the old logos that went with it was too small to see. So, naturally, I got curious and googled the history of the Starbucks logo and found this really interesting article.
Who knew? I thought those things were her hands or something. I wonder what other sketchy things we would find in other logos if we knew what we were looking for?
I've got to run pick up Brooklynne from the airport (yeah!), so this will have to be a quick post. Thus, I will link to other people's stuff....
I had a really tough fall semester (thus the dearth of blog posts). Apparently alot of people had a bad year. Here are two articles that sum it all up.
Here's to a better 2011.
We have friends in Kyrgyzstan. The violence there has finally reached their city and their landlord's 7-year-old grandchild was shot and killed while standing on the balcony of her house. News reports are calling it ethnic violence, and it is surely divided down ethnic lines, but according to our friends, the conflict is really fueled by the drug trade and corruption. Please keep these people in your prayers so that peace can return to that beautiful country.
Here are two links in case you are interested: photos and news.
The World Cup began today with a surprising tie between South Africa and Mexico. South Africa scored first and almost held out, but a botched offsides trap handed an equalizer to Mexico.
In other news, I found some great (and sad) pictures of the continuing devastation in the gulf. Click "continue reading" to see the rest.
Beach week is about half-way over and we've had pretty good luck so far, although tarballs about the size of large pancakes started washing up yesterday. We're going to try to collect some and bring it back in a jar if possible. We saw a couple BP guys on patrol, and there is some kind of large-scale operation maybe 500 yards off the coast right in front of our beach house. Anywho, we've suspended swimming, probably for the rest of the week, but we got a couple good days in before the oil arrived and here are the pictures so far. We'll have another update about the conditions on the beach later tonight. Click "continue reading" for the rest of the pics.
I drove through a creek in my CRV and knocked something off the bottom of my car. Now I can't pass an emissions test, my registration is expired, and I can't renew it. The part I'm missing is either #8 ($45) or #11 ($70)--it's hard to tell from this diagram. But what really sucks is that the part got knocked off with the electrical connector still plugged in. No one sells just the connector without the rest of the harness and the harness is $400+. Now I'm scouring junkyards and ebay, and debating whether to experiment with soldering the wire ends directly to the new component.
Shopping is done, kids are in bed, time to get down to business. I would give you a better post, but situation as it stands, I need all the time I can get. Plus, tomorrow promises much blogging bliss.
Merry Christmas!!!
I haven't heard or read the transcript of Obama's Peace Prize speech, but I did listen to a commentator talk about it the morning after, and since then, I've been meaning to dig up a copy and read it for myself. The two things that piqued my interest were the commentator's assertion that it was Obama's best speech so far as president, and his analysis of the way the speech was structured as a reply to MLK's Peace Prize speech.
So here are the two speeches. I would love if you read them both and told me what you think. As I said before, I have not read them yet, but I will, and I will post my feelings either in the comments here, or in a separate post later.
