tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148533712024-03-23T11:10:41.108-07:00Yak AttackA place to unwind and spend some time yakking.lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-46288432455920646892007-01-01T23:02:00.000-08:002007-01-01T23:05:28.714-08:00Check out my new digsI'm moving out of Bloggerville. Please check out my new place over at Wordpress, Yak Attack.I'm not completely moved in yet, but I'll be posting all new content at my new digs, rather than here. I welcome you to come and check it out. If you've been so generous as to include a link to my blog on your blogroll, would you kindly update your link? Thank you.~lewlewlewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-77967617152248802652006-12-01T21:09:00.000-08:002006-12-01T22:48:18.265-08:00Ode to a BirdI'm kind of sad this evening. Tee called me when I was on the way home from the shop. There was a bird "stuck" on our front porch. He thought the bird's leg was caught between two slats of wood decking. I suggested he put on some garden gloves and try to free the bird's leg, but he was afraid of doing more damage to the poor thing. It was already doing quite poorly. He asked if it would be lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-65790406112917279502006-11-21T22:53:00.000-08:002006-11-21T23:11:34.924-08:00neato-skeeto kids, a snakey question and an updateThis evening we attended a football banquet for Tony and Tee. Tony lettered again, which was a really great ending to his high school football days. I hope that if he'd like to play football in college, he'll get an opportunity to do so.To our excitement, Tee won the Coaches' Award for the freshman team. This award was for the kid who was always working hard, learning, growing and cheerful, evenlewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-64629296494730805182006-11-18T11:01:00.000-08:002006-11-18T11:18:53.135-08:00re: my projectUpdate: My project is behind schedule. I've been having slow connectivity issues, after some power outages. I'm afraid our router and modem are on their last legs. I'll press on, but my new projected completion date is Tuesday the 21st.lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-59815374352659014102006-11-14T07:54:00.000-08:002006-11-14T08:15:05.373-08:00More Let's Yak About Art and an updateThis will be a brief Let's Yak About Art. Artist and author Eric Carle is the subject of a special exhibit at the Tacoma Museum of Art. The exhibit opened October 7th, and will be around until January 21, 2007.An article in the Seattle PI discussed the exhibit and a recent visit to the museum by Carle. Included in the article was a brief biography. When Carle was 6 years old, his parents, lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-78720089630292654612006-11-12T20:11:00.000-08:002006-11-12T20:23:04.236-08:00short hiatus for a project and a bloggy warningI received the alert today about the impending switch from Blogger format to the beta Blogger design. I thought, "What the hell," and switched. If you haven't switched over yet, I caution you to wait and research your options. I wasn't pleased with the widget selections, and when I read over what happens to your blog when you switch over, I didn't have a full understanding of what would be lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1163058177897164702006-11-08T22:32:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:36.840-08:00Let's Yak About Art.. it's been awhileBlogging about Chris Harris' photographs got the arty fluids flowing.Let's yak a bit about the art of Kathe Kollowitz. She was a printmaker, sculpter, drawer and artist extraordinaire. She chronicled the journeys of the poor, the edges of society, in Germany between the 19th and 20th century. You can read a biography of her life here.One of her favorite mediums was lithography. This is what lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1163053580549340742006-11-08T22:03:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:36.690-08:00Slathering on cancer-juice ..... but doesn't it make me look pretty?When I took some classes at the UW to improve my writing skills, one of my fellow classmates chose as a assignment subject the dangers of U.S. cosmetics. It was the first I'd heard about the possible dangers of parabens. I knew tolulene possessed bad juju, but what was dibutyl phthalate? DEA (diethanolamine) and TEA (triethanolamine) is in like every shampoo in the supermarket, isn't it? I lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1162886624853304072006-11-06T22:27:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:36.544-08:00Let's Yak About Art and an explanationBack in July, I began to relate to you, my readers, what my trip to the Bowron Lakes Provincial Park was like. I shared up through Day 4, and then I stopped. I started to type up part of Day 5, but lost heart. I was still so excited about the fact that Tee and I made it through the whole experience, that I didn't want to dwell on some of the more negative aspects of our trip. I chose, instead,lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1162706327382790422006-11-04T21:33:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:36.380-08:00fearmongering with a little side of frightI don't know why I did it-- maybe it was the nausea seeking company. I wasn't feeling well at all yesterday afternoon, so I crawled into bed and turned on the tube for some white noise. I ended up watching the national news on one of the big three stations, and I was transfixed. Not on the news, silly; it was the commercials that caught my attention. I watched the (mostly) slop for lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1162698473767742042006-11-04T19:34:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:36.242-08:00Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift Wins a Distinguished Alumnus award from Seattle University Law SchoolSwift is representing Salim Hamdan, who is currently held at Guantanamo Bay. This is the Navy lawyer that challenged the tribunal system favored by the Bush administration; he took his challenge all the way to the Supreme Court and won. For his trouble, Swift has been passed up for promotion and will be forced into retirement. Now with the Military Commissions Act, his successful court case islewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1162356138470398062006-10-31T20:29:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:35.908-08:00Lewis Carrol, blinded by scienceKirsten, my trusty blog friend from Enjoy Every Sandwich, pointed me in the correct direction when she suggested Jabberwocky as the source of the whimsical speech that accompanied the Protein Synthesis ala' Hair video. If you listen closely to the narrator, she refers to the poem through out the whole interpretive dance. My most favorite part was this section of the narration: "And, has thou lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1162274354842942042006-10-30T21:51:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:35.743-08:00Thai... It's what's for dinnerOne of my favorite Thai dishes is Swimming Angel (some places call is Swimming Rama). It's fresh spinach leaves, peanut sauce and your choice of protein (chicken, prawns or tofu). I prefer chicken.Lew grilled up some thinly sliced chicken this evening, seasoned with fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper. He made a batch of peanut sauce in our blender, then heated it on the stove. Right before lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1162273568808539612006-10-30T21:28:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:41:35.580-08:00Happy HalloweenFor many individuals, Halloween is the season to celebrate squash. Zander is one of those folks-- his zeal for orb-shaped, day-glo orange squash is legendary. It's almost an obsession-- finding the most perfect pumpkin for the application in mind.He starts thinking about pumpkins early in the fall. This year, we had some volunteer pumpkins that spouted from last year's pumpkin-fest. He was lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1161926148434326122006-10-26T21:55:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:35.435-08:00Are you sitting down?That's what I asked Deadhead Girl when she telephoned tonight. Tee asked me to take him for a haircut! This is the same kid I had to drag to the salon last wrestling season (yes, almost a year ago), and that was only possible after the underarmor beanie deal didn't stay on his pile of bedhead during a match, and he lost. She didn't believe me at first.This is the haircut he'd like to get. I'mlewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1161924812117370592006-10-26T21:25:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:35.278-08:00Protein Synthesis -- it's feelin' groovyRosie is taking Biology 100 this quarter at the local community college. Their current course of study involves protein synthesis. In her quest for knowledge, she ran across some groovy science videos.For those who preached that interpretive dance and science didn't mix, Rosie showed me the video that proves such nay-sayers wrong.It's 1971 at a little CA college called Stanford. Call them crazylewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1161796026037198592006-10-25T09:55:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:35.137-08:00Saving tips from the edge of financial ruinBack in August, Northwest Airlines made a huge gaffe when the company passed out a handbook,"Ground Operations Restructuring Q&A and Employee Support" to employees who received pink slips. The handbook included a section on coping with job loss which featured, 101 Ways to Save Money. Among the suggestions, from a company on the brink because they mismanaged their finances and had to claim lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1161670537012976802006-10-23T21:55:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.973-08:00Why?I've been pondering for quite some time the apathy we have, as a country, about the evidence leaked out concerning torture perpetuated by the U.S.. Besides the photographic evidence at Abu Ghraib, the stories of people being tortured by agents of our government have gone largely unnoticed.How many people have heard of Ashraf Abdullah Ahs? Or read about Bagram Collection Point, in Afghanistan? lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1161414754421107882006-10-20T23:48:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.822-08:00What kind of "Today" do you chooseYou know that old saying, "Today is the first day of the rest of my life?" Yesterday, we could all state, "Today is the first day of the rest of my life, in a police state."That isn't such a rosy statement, is it? It doesn't have to be so, though, friends. Take a moment to read Kevin Tillman's featured report at Truthdig, After Pat's Birthday. Then, take another moment to read Kevin lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1161407688346309132006-10-20T21:37:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.671-08:00Might as well run the FRNs through a meat grinder$200,000 later, and Seattle has a new tagline, Metronatural. I can come up with a few, and it doesn't cost anything.Seattle: We know what's best for everyone else. Seattle: Taxpayers' money? Oh Yeah! [high tech toilets; loser monorail project; cost of bad cops]Seattle:MetrocasualtyMy favorite: You spent that $%#^& money to come up with Seattle: Metronatural? Seattle: Metronausealewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1160422612320451712006-10-09T12:33:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.537-08:00Seattle FunnyFrom Beast Mom's blog post Answer Me People: 15. Why does coffee cost so much? It's BEAN WATER. Water with some bean bits in it. Beany water. Aren't beans supposed to be one of the cheapest cash crops?lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1160422397815608482006-10-09T12:24:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.393-08:00Russo's Film in YelmMark, over at South Puget Sound Libertarian, posted information on the limited engagement of Aaron Russo's film America: Freedom to Fascism in Yelm, WA.Kudos to DiFranco at Minute of Angle for his original post about the Yelm showing, and to Don at Current Observations, for blogging about his trip to Yelm to view the movie.lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1160414805495379532006-10-09T10:17:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.253-08:00Is security worth the price tag?Here's a small opinion piece from guest columnist Kathleen Braden. She poses an articulate question, "Survival yes, but at what cost? And toward what end?"Are we so afraid, so insecure that we'll trade our very soul for a moment of false security? More and more people in America are refusing to do so. Enslaving ones' self on the premise of security is not worth the price tag. We can see from lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1160165162964700942006-10-06T12:56:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:34.078-08:00You Don't Represent UsTake a minute to read about a demonstration held yesterday in Seattle. I'm sure the people were from a multitude of backgrounds and espouse a plethora of philosophies, but it sure is encouraging to see them taking some time to gather and say, "Hell no." The organization who sponsored the demonstration, The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime is one I haven't heard of before. Their lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853371.post-1160115263740651632006-10-05T23:01:00.000-07:002006-11-12T12:41:33.958-08:00Tell Cheney his policies are messed up, go directly to jailDon, over at Current Observations, made mention of a news article about the arrest of Steve Howards, and the subsequent lawsuit he filed against the Secret Service member who arrested him.Howards saw VP Cheney at an outdoor mall in Colorado on June 16, 2006. He told Cheney, as he walked by the VP and the crowd posing for pictures, that he found the policies governing our invasion of Iraq to be lewlewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04082424785676529822noreply@blogger.com0