Where’s the peanut butter?!

‘Heimlich maneuver lady’ has saved three lives at Salish Lodge
Margi Powers never wanted the pressure and stress of her older brother’s duty as a Seattle firefighter or her mother’s job as a labor and delivery nurse.

Instead, she chose a career as a waitress.

And for the past six years, she’s served a serene crowd enjoying a view of the cascading waterfalls and evergreen trees over leisurely lunches at the Salish Lodge & Spa in Snoqualmie.

But opportunities to save a life keep coming to her.

Does anyone know how we petition Archie McPhee to have this woman made into a new action figure?

My h6315 pocketpc phone has decided to punish me with a hard reset. I’m taking this as a sign that I should trust nothing but emacs with my data. gnus, bbdb, and calendar have never screwed me over like this.

The sun is bright. Don.t
look at the sun or you will damage your eyes. Anything that focuses
the sun will only make it more dangerous. The Solar Death Ray is
dangerous. Don.t build one. I.m surprised I haven.t burnt or blinded
myself yet. The fumes from molten plastic can.t be good either. Don’t
play with fire.

Webalyzer tells me at least one person found my site by searching for
“email address of business men in ghana 2005″. Finding me with that
query shows some real determination!

Yesterday President Bush said of the Schiavo case in Florida:

This is a complex case with serious issues . . . But in extraordinary
circumstances like this, it is wise to always err on the side of
life.

Grotesque.

This from the same man who, as governor of Texas…

• … href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Brain%20Damaged%20Woman%20Texas%20Law">passed
  a law in 1999 establishing end-of-life decision-making rights
  first to the spouse, then to “reasonably available adult children”,
  and then to parents.

• …oversaw the
  execution of 152 death row inmates, accepted 0 requests for
  clemency, and commuted only one death sentence (for Henry Lee Lucas
  who had been sentenced to die for a crime committed while he was not
  in the state).
  Texas death row executions (95-2000 are the Bush Years):

  Year	‘82	‘84	‘85	‘86	‘87	‘88	‘89	‘90	‘91	‘92	‘93	‘94	‘95	‘96	‘97	‘98	‘99	‘00	‘01	‘02	‘03	‘04	‘05	All
  Prisoners	1	3	6	10	6	3	4	4	5	12	17	14	19	3	37	20	35	40	17	33	24	23	4	340

• …and who href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010211005743/www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,39180,00.html">mocked
  Christian convert Karla Faye Tucker’s plea for her life when she was
  on death row:

  “‘Please,’ Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘don’t kill me.’”

i’ve finally spent some time to read through the manual on recording on my iriver to figure out how recording works with the hope that I could produce something that doesn’t sound like utter crap and the first signs aren’t encouraging. I first tried doing this during liz phair’s show at bumbershoot last year and just got static but figured i’d chosen a bad format or input source since I didn’t know what I was doing (the ihp120 has impressive specs for this and can record from an internal or external mic or normal or optical line-in). now i’ve tried the internal mic as documented to record mp3 format and got fuzz again. If the provided external mic doesn’t work then i’m out of luck. i’ve still got So Here We Are by Bloc Party on now though so I can’t complain too much.

UPDATE 2005.03.21 AGC

I turned on automatic gain control and my internal mic is now
recording like a champ. I love my iriver again!

Yippee! I’m not roxoring the writeback blosxom plugin so my blog can receive comments and trackbacks. Let the sound of one hand clapping resonate around the net!

Tanya just got a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_sd300.asp">fancy
new camera and its media format is SD. I’ve bought SD, MMC and CF
memory before but not really paid close attention to the performance
of the various types of cards so I just did a little research and have
learned:

• Speed really matters I had a vague sense of this before but
  it turns out that most SD memory will write at about 2Mbps. A 5
  megapixel camera produces pictures in the neighborhood of 1-2MB in
  size so creates a pretty clear potential that, depending on
  whether/how your camera buffers data, you’ll miss shots because you’re
  waiting for the write from your last shot to complete (it’s not
  immediately obvious to me where the 2Mbps number comes from or whether
  it’s megabits/megabytes - but the potential is there).
• There is no real clarity over SD performance Typical SD
  cards evidently yield about 2Mbps, high-speed or ultra high-speed may
  yield 8-10Mbsp. Costco currently has some Lexar non-high/ultra-high
  performance SD cards at 20% off that are supposed to write
  4.8MBps

This reminds me of USB2 where a device claiming to be USB2 may be
full-speed USB2 (12MBps) or high-speed USB2 (the full 480MBps) and if
you’re not a careful customer, you’ll get the USB2 that’s only 10x
faster than USB1 instead of the one that’s 400x faster, except it’s
even worse since you can’t just check the product specs and get any
meaningful information. Company X’s high-speed SD card is probably
faster than their standard line, but how fast is it in absolute terms?
Relative terms compared to their other product lines? Relative terms
compared to Company Y’s product line? Many consumers may not be able
to understand this information but when you *do* want to figure it out
and you can’t, and that’s no good.

When href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=17&u=/ap/suggestive_cheerleading">Al
Edwards goes out to see the Longhorns, he just wants to see some
young jocks beat the crap out of each other without all that
cheerleader sexy-dancing, is that so much to ask?

“It’s just too sexually oriented, you know, the way they’re shaking
their behinds and going on, breaking it down,” said Edwards, a
26-year veteran of the Texas House.

Future href="http://ch5.mediacorptv.com/shows/reality/view/627/1/.html">S’porean
reality TV show sensation, href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/Howard/MyBlog.aspx">Howard
“Cantankerous” href="http://www.microsoft.com/asia/developer/team5.asp">Lo graced
Seattle with a visit this week. I think this is his second trip back
since leaving almost two
years ago. He is now en route back to south-east Asia. Where does the
time go?