06 December 2006
news, pics and news pics
Wow it is Wednesday and I haven't got this blog out yet. Just know it is for a good reason. I have been good busy at work and haven't had time to blog. Yesterday I had a meeting from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. [I also left work a little early too].
We went to Salt Lake last night to hear my daughter preform with her choir at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was a great concert in a perfect setting. We ate dinner at the Spaghetti Factory and then saw the lights on Temple Square. If you have not been to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights then you are missing something. This has become one of our families most beloved Christmas traditions.
Today I had a meeting at 9 a.m. but it got canceled because the guy I was meeting with was in the hospital with his wife who was having a baby. So I had a little time to surf...
We are now in full swing for Christmas. I saw this gingerbread tiefighter on flickr and had to share.
I told my middle son about this and he said, "That would be easy to make'. We'll see if we can work one out this year.
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I know what I like. Sometimes I think I will like something and I don't. Other times I think I won't like something and I do. That's kind of how I feel about Pete Goldlust's Carved Crayons.
These are awesome!! I love the variation on a theme. I could really get into this if I had any talent. I have seen links to this in several places but I didn't check it out because I thought they would be lame. I apologize Pete, now my kids are going to have to hide their Christmas Crayons before I take my 'old timer' to them!
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I found a new term and a new site. Warholizer: turn yourself and your friends into pop icons!
Sweet!
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I have finally come across another picture alphabet. I don't really seek these things out but it has been a while since I posted one.
Can you read this?
I couldn't either but once you know the Betamaze alphabet you'll have no trouble getting out of the maze.
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I have been following the story about a nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs that have been found with fossilized bones in the eggs.
The nest was found in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in 1984 and fell into the hands of an American collector in 2003. "The collector restored the nest to museum quality, revealing embryonic remains of 19 eggs. Some eggs were so well-preserved that the curled-up embryonic raptors were visible inside."
Today I read, 'Dino eggs auctioned for big money', where the "Dinosaur nest sold for an amazing $420,000".
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Another story about the 'Moon Base Announced by NASA' caught my eye.
"US space agency Nasa says it is planning to start work on a base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020. The maps and graphics below show how and where man could live on the Moon."
[How]
[Where]
[What]
Man is that 'out of this world'?
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I read another news story on the front page of the Standard-Examiner about the decommissioning of the USS Ogden.
Come to find out the USS Ogden is actually named after my home town, Ogden Utah. According to wikipedia, "USS Ogden (LPD-5), a Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Utah, which in turn was named for Peter Skene Ogden, Canadian explorer and fur trader."
The current USS Ogden is a landing platform dock, a multipurpose ship with a crew of 420. She was designed to carry as many as 900 Marines to combat and send them ashore from landing boats launched from within the ship. The landing platform docks have the unique ability to raise and lower themselves in the water and launch landing craft from a dock contained within the hull of the ship. She can also carry helicopters if needed.
The Ogden's most recent assignment was Iraq. She did a six-month tour of duty in the Arabian Gulf which ended in August, helping provide security, transporting Marines and training the Iraqi navy.
Both the Standard-Examiner and Wikipedia says after the ship is decommissioned it will be sold and used as a part of the Mexican Navy.
[USS Ogden sailing into the sunset]
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I came across this photoblog of pics from Bryce Canyon National Park.
They were taken by Quang-Tuan Luong, who has photographed all 57 of the US national Parks.
I found this bio, "Professional photographer with a broad range of work in travel, nature, adventure, and large format photography. X84, PhD U. Paris 1992. First person to have photographed each of the US National Parks in large format (5x7 inch). Editorial credits include Time, US News and World Report, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Discover, Scientific American, GEO. Other clients include Toyota, Audi of America, Honda, Ford, Bank of America, US Bancorp, Honeywell, Alaska Airlines, Korean Air, Pfizer, LL Bean, Warner Bros, US Department of State,US National Park Service,US Bureau of Land Management, World Health Organization, World Bank, Greenpeace, and a number of others from more than 20 countries."
[Temple of the Moon and temple of the Sun, Cathedral Valley. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA.]
You shouldn't need me to encourage you to check out his work on his site!
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This is a picture called Facettenauge.
Facettenauge is a German word meaning 'Fassetten or complex eye' like those of the insect depicted.
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That's all for today!
We went to Salt Lake last night to hear my daughter preform with her choir at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was a great concert in a perfect setting. We ate dinner at the Spaghetti Factory and then saw the lights on Temple Square. If you have not been to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights then you are missing something. This has become one of our families most beloved Christmas traditions.
Today I had a meeting at 9 a.m. but it got canceled because the guy I was meeting with was in the hospital with his wife who was having a baby. So I had a little time to surf...
We are now in full swing for Christmas. I saw this gingerbread tiefighter on flickr and had to share.
I told my middle son about this and he said, "That would be easy to make'. We'll see if we can work one out this year.
------------
I know what I like. Sometimes I think I will like something and I don't. Other times I think I won't like something and I do. That's kind of how I feel about Pete Goldlust's Carved Crayons.
These are awesome!! I love the variation on a theme. I could really get into this if I had any talent. I have seen links to this in several places but I didn't check it out because I thought they would be lame. I apologize Pete, now my kids are going to have to hide their Christmas Crayons before I take my 'old timer' to them!
---------------
I found a new term and a new site. Warholizer: turn yourself and your friends into pop icons!
Sweet!
-----------------
I have finally come across another picture alphabet. I don't really seek these things out but it has been a while since I posted one.
Can you read this?
I couldn't either but once you know the Betamaze alphabet you'll have no trouble getting out of the maze.
-----------------
I have been following the story about a nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs that have been found with fossilized bones in the eggs.
The nest was found in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in 1984 and fell into the hands of an American collector in 2003. "The collector restored the nest to museum quality, revealing embryonic remains of 19 eggs. Some eggs were so well-preserved that the curled-up embryonic raptors were visible inside."
Today I read, 'Dino eggs auctioned for big money', where the "Dinosaur nest sold for an amazing $420,000".
---------------
Another story about the 'Moon Base Announced by NASA' caught my eye.
"US space agency Nasa says it is planning to start work on a base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020. The maps and graphics below show how and where man could live on the Moon."
[How]
[Where]
[What]
Man is that 'out of this world'?
-------------
I read another news story on the front page of the Standard-Examiner about the decommissioning of the USS Ogden.
Come to find out the USS Ogden is actually named after my home town, Ogden Utah. According to wikipedia, "USS Ogden (LPD-5), a Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Utah, which in turn was named for Peter Skene Ogden, Canadian explorer and fur trader."
The current USS Ogden is a landing platform dock, a multipurpose ship with a crew of 420. She was designed to carry as many as 900 Marines to combat and send them ashore from landing boats launched from within the ship. The landing platform docks have the unique ability to raise and lower themselves in the water and launch landing craft from a dock contained within the hull of the ship. She can also carry helicopters if needed.
The Ogden's most recent assignment was Iraq. She did a six-month tour of duty in the Arabian Gulf which ended in August, helping provide security, transporting Marines and training the Iraqi navy.
Both the Standard-Examiner and Wikipedia says after the ship is decommissioned it will be sold and used as a part of the Mexican Navy.
[USS Ogden sailing into the sunset]
--------------
I came across this photoblog of pics from Bryce Canyon National Park.
They were taken by Quang-Tuan Luong, who has photographed all 57 of the US national Parks.
I found this bio, "Professional photographer with a broad range of work in travel, nature, adventure, and large format photography. X84, PhD U. Paris 1992. First person to have photographed each of the US National Parks in large format (5x7 inch). Editorial credits include Time, US News and World Report, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Discover, Scientific American, GEO. Other clients include Toyota, Audi of America, Honda, Ford, Bank of America, US Bancorp, Honeywell, Alaska Airlines, Korean Air, Pfizer, LL Bean, Warner Bros, US Department of State,US National Park Service,US Bureau of Land Management, World Health Organization, World Bank, Greenpeace, and a number of others from more than 20 countries."
[Temple of the Moon and temple of the Sun, Cathedral Valley. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA.]
You shouldn't need me to encourage you to check out his work on his site!
--------------
This is a picture called Facettenauge.
Facettenauge is a German word meaning 'Fassetten or complex eye' like those of the insect depicted.
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That's all for today!
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