Trees down, power lines down

We just got hit by a big storm in Indianapolis tonight.

A tree went down over on Crestview and 57th taking a power line with it.

Power is out everywhere from Kessler and Keystone down to our block but because we are on a different circuit our power is not out. The people across the street do not have power. Usually it's the other way around.

We called Martha across the street to see if she was okay and asked if Mildred was safe as well. It turns out that Mildred died last December. She must have been around 96 years old.

rivets, rivets, rivets

Have you ever grown tired of bureaucracy?

Here's a good passage to relate to from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

What more did I want? What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work -- to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast -- cases -- piled up -- burst -- split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station-yard on the hillside. Rivets

and later on after several additional references to the non-delivery of rivets.

I had given up worrying myself about the rivets. One's capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose. I said Hang! -- and let things slide.

January 10 2008

Republican Debate in South Carolina

I just got the transcript of the Republican debate for the 2008 primary sponsored by Fox News tonight

Here it is:

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I noticed that pages displayed in IE always looked better that they did when rendered in Opera. Here's why.

Why does IE display better than opera

Finally figured it out, should have done a Google search in the first place.

Update : Saturday night

We went to the new downtown library in Indianapolis this afternoon. It's a pretty cool building. I went up to the 6th floor and read part of a biography about Howard Hughes and gazed out at the city.

Doreen got the latest Harry Potter book in German and Mary got some books on knitting.

We went to the Rathskeller and I ordered a big plate of sausages and washed it down with a Spaten Optimator.

We saw a few quotes on the wall and I will leave them here:

"Die Maessigkeit ist gut und fein doch darf sie nicht unmaessig ein."
"Temperance is well and good but it must not be intemperate."


"Ernst is das Leben heiter ist die Kunst"
"Life is serious but art is joyous"

Interesting polling data

latest info on Barack vs HRC race

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/poll-tracker.htm

This is a site that aggregates all the different polls going on and generates a trend line.

It's pretty cool to play around with the controls and generate custom plots.

Tonight we will be checking out the downtown library and then going to eat at the Rathskeller.

Happy New Year

It's New Years Day and I have a complaint.

A new mayor for the city of Indianapolis was sworn in and I am unable to find any video of the event. I can't watch any local news on the TV due to college bowl games but more suprising is the lack of any Internet content from our wonderful local news providers.


fox 59 - no mention of the new mayor's first day in office
wrtv6 - ditto
wthr - ditto
wish TV - actually has an article on the new mayor's swearing in but no video

I realize that today is holiday but this is the first time we've had a new mayor in eight years and everyone appears to be snoozing.

Maybe the "I-team" is too busy out investigating spontaneously combusting dustbusters.

yawn....