by Chris Barrus
Blogging this so I don’t forget it. The Shady Dell in Bisbee, Arizona is a motel made up of 1950s-vintage camping trailers that are completely decked out in period decor from the bedspreads to the vintage televisions in each trailers. Not sure about the trailer? Then stay in the completely restored 1947 Chris Craft yacht that’s decorated with period boating memorabilia.
Not surprisingly, the motel’s restaurant is a 1957 Valentine 10 stool diner that has been completely restored.
OK, finally finished the importing from the old Radio Userland site. Now to fix all the picture links.
An amazing photo tour through Uranium City in northwest Saskatchewan. Uranium City was a mining boomtown that once had a population of 5000, but is now a ghost town of abandoned buildings and radioactive tailing piles.
Clueless Orange County civic government stories are always the best:
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A group of Catholic business leaders will be allowed to build a high school for as many as 3,000 students at the site of an ancient burial ground after a 4-1 vote by the City Council on Monday night.
The school will be named JSerra High School – after the Rev. Junipero Serra, the priest who founded Mission San Juan Capistrano.
The council vote came after more than two hours of testimony, almost all of it from people opposed to the school at Camino Capistrano and Junipero Serra Road. Councilman Wyatt Hart noted that memorials to the site’s Indian past will be included at the campus and that the site was zoned for a hotel anyway.
Doesn’t anyone remember Poltergeist? Guess they will now.
Whether you want to call it the Mark Of The Beast, an innocent barcode, or another milestone in creeping fascism – the age of the implant chip is here.
Theoretically, this VeriChip will allow doctors to call up my medical records even if I’m too badly hurt to answer questions. It is also supposed to allow me to get money from an automatic teller machine by flashing my arm instead of punching in my PIN number. Or reassure airport security that I am a journalist, not a terrorist.
And, though the VeriChip strikes critics as Orwellian, its makers think the surgically implanted IDs could be the Social Security numbers of the future in a nervous world.
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However, ADS officials say this is just the beginning. They want to build a chip that can store loads of information, or act as the key to a central database that stores information about the user. Ultimately, the company hopes to be able to track the movement of people with chips worldwide using global positioning satellites.
Rapatronic cameras were a special type of camera mechanism develped to take extremely short exposures of the very early stages of a nuclear explosion. The pictures are very unusal and well, just plain weird looking.
Mac OS X Hints has a nice tutorial on how to configure port mapping on the Airport Base Station.
So the last time I was skiing was roughly twenty years ago: new wave was still king and MTV had yet to air a single video. So it was rather random to go up to Mammoth for a couple of days (credit goes to my mom, who’s 78 and still skies a couple weeks every year).
Amazingly, there’s still a lot of snow even this late in the season and no one is skiing on Mondays. So I had the whole mountain to myself, which is just as well since I was pretty much a public health hazard for the first couple of hours while I got my ski legs back.
By the afternoon, I was right back to where I left off in high school when I was skiing all the time. Could have stayed another couple of days!
There was a early evening ocean haze here in Long Beach that was making totality rather hard to see. But once the moon just peeked out from under the Earth’s shadow it was high enough in the sky to clear the haze and just be absolutely spectactular.
In retrospect I wish I fished my telescope out of the garage, but there’s barely any room left here on the roof for anything. However, here’s a nicely overexposed featureless pixelated photo. I need to get a new camera adapter for the scope.
