Music lessons over Skype becoming popular
It’s 5:45 am and my brain is too fuzzy to wrap my head around the concept of a bagpipe lesson over Skype.
Unsolved Mysteries: The Blob
The townspeople of Oakville, Washington, were in for a surprise on August 7, 1994. Instead of their usual downpour of rain, the inhabitants of the small town witnessed countless gelatinous blobs falling from the sky. Once the globs fell, almost everyone in Oakville started to develop severe, flu-like symptoms that lasted anywhere from 7 weeks to 3 months. Finally, after exposure to the goo caused his mother to fall ill, one resident sent a sample of the blobs for testing. What the technicians discovered was shocking – the globs contained human white blood cells. The substance was then brought to the State Department of Health of Washington for further analysis. With another startling reveal, they discovered that the gelatinous blobs had two types of bacteria, one of which is found in the human digestive system. However, no one could successfully identify the blob, and how they were connected to the mysterious sickness that plagued the town.
“perplexing precipitation”
Source: youtube.com
First Watch: Fanfarlo, ‘Shiny Things’ : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
More bleeps and bloops, less horns and glockenspiels. I like it! They’re returning to Seattle in April.
Source: NPR
SDOT Blog » The Ten Bridges of the Spokane Street Corridor
“In general, the term “viaduct” is used to describe a bridge that does not cross a particular geographic feature such as a river or a canyon, and generally does not change elevation.”
Noted.
The 1976 bridge strike was committed by a drunken ship pilot if I remember correctly.
It should also be noted that sometime during the oughts the name was changed from ‘West Seattle Freeway’ to ‘West Seattle Bridge.’ I am unsure of the reasoning behind the change in semantics. I believe it allowed them to drop speed limits but that may be wrong. Furthermore, it is now branded the ‘Jeanette Williams Memorial Bridge.’
iN-PUBLiC | Richard Bram
Street photog
Skull photo from cave in previous link.
Dirige INAH investigación de cueva sumergida “Hoyo Negro”
”*** According to captured images, as well as the skull was found a long bone may be a humerus, and among the faunal remains are observed a gomphothere”
A gomphothere is a four-tusk’d “mastodon” type creature
“As the last glacial maximum came to end, the melting of the polar ice caps and continental ice sheets raised sea levels worldwide. The caves of the Yucatan Peninsula filled with water and the First Americans were hidden for millennia — only to be discovered by underwater cave explorers”
OLD
Source: inah.gob.mx
Skull in Underwater Cave May Be Earliest Trace of First Americans
We are going to this area in Mexico, and Trav is SCUBA diving into one of these cenotes. (I am only snorkeling.)
The Cat Walk - Video Library - The New York Times
Jackson Galaxy, a cat behaviorist and television personality, teaches The Times’s Stephanie Clifford how to walk her cat on a leash.
Discovery Park or Lincoln Park would be good for this.
Source: The New York Times
Michelle Obama’s Evolution as First Lady - NYTimes.com
An interesting peek into her personality and west wing infighting.
Via my mom.
Source: mscott
iPhone 4S Battery Life: Best solutions: Apple Support Communities
Many good leads here. I recently switched from a AT&T 4 to a Verizon 4S and found more rapid battery drain.
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