I'd love to be able to put Amazon ads in their own column.
Which practically requires a three-column template.
So no more posting for today, while I go ahunting through the WWW for a more suitable look.
Stay tuned for Slothful Sunday! Tomorrow a.m.
UPDATE: Okay, we've got three columns. Now I need to make them the correct width and add all those links in by hand, and possibly a few other refinements.
So far, wuddaya think?
If you know of a local business with a site that ain't in the list, or find a link that's bad, please tell me in the comments.
Thanks!
This kinda stuff has been going on forever.
When I was a kid - before the last Ice Age ;-) - there were fake fire alarms. Some enterprising little hoodlum would pull the lever in an empty hallway, bells would sound, and we'd all file out the nearest exit and hang around outdoors until the appropriate city officials came and looked through the building.
Yeah, bells. Round metal things with clappers. The schools didn't have those electronic doohickeys that sound like a robot farting.
Back in the classroom, we'd get a lecture about how it was against the law, blah blah blah. I never knew who did it 'cuz I didn't hang out with the hoods. Sometimes they were referred to as "greasers," which has a whole different meaning today.
I don't recall any of my classmates going to juvenile hall for pulling the alarm, but that was a looooong time ago and perhaps memory has faded. It was before video cameras were everywhere. Heck, it was before they were anywhere. The first VCR was sold in 1971.
Can you imagine? Nowadays, we're all in someone's lens by simply running errands: at the bank, at the convenience store, at WalMart.
In the mid 70s, bomb scares came into vogue. The building where I worked was evacuated several times after phoned-in threats. But still no caller ID, and I never heard of an arrest.
From the Daily News article:
Police Chief Jerry Agnew said police identified the call as coming from a cell phone. He said cell phone records would be subpoenaed to help identify the caller.Today's kids have grown up with all this technology. They know they've gotta take precautions to make anonymous prank calls to their friends, f'rinstance. The patent for caller ID was filed in 1982, likely before the perp was born.
The call not only came into the school but to 9-1-1 as well, and 911 records are being checked to identify the caller along with voice recordings.
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BEAUFORT, Mo. - Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby disappeared 4 1/2 years and 40 miles apart. Police were stunned to find both boys — alive and apparently well — in the same suburban St. Louis apartment.In fairness, it doesn't sound like either of these kidnappings could have been avoided by reasonable means. You can't keep your kids within eyesight 24/7/365.
The shocking development Friday was hailed as a miracle in two rural Missouri communities — Richwoods, where Shawn was 11 when he disappeared on Oct. 6, 2002 — and Beaufort 40 miles to the north, where Ben, 13, hadn't been seen since getting off a school bus Monday afternoon.
... though we've got another cold spell headed our way. Down to around 30 at night in a few days.
Wild azaleas in the woods are budding, and trees are beginning to leaf out. It's the middle of January, and they're acting like it's March. I saw many big tulip poplars that Katrina laid down still alive :-). We have a horizontal forest.
It will be a shame if a hard frost kills the tender new growth - especially for trees and shrubs that are still trying to recover from the storm's battering.
I took cuttings of the azalea. If I can't enjoy it in the woods this year, I'll see some blooms near my desk.
Could be worse. Dallas-Ft. Worth has an ice storm warning goin' on.
From the New York Post:
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling scold from California, wasted no time yesterday in dragging the debate over Iraq about as low as it can go - attacking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman.And the Post gives her a scolding in turn. Read it all.
Excitement at Lake Peigneur:
Lake Peigneur, which drained into a salt mine after an oil rig accident 26 years ago, was bubbling Thursday morning, area residents said.More reading on the 1980 Lake Peigneur disaster.
Richard Suire, a retired oilfield worker who lives on the lakefront, said he saw it when he let the dog out Thursday morning. "It was bubbling up probably a foot and a half high, and 15 feet north and south, and about two to three feet wide," he said.
There seems to be more air traffic than usual - small planes and helicopters.
Anybody know what that's all about?
