Our flooded house is finally gone
The demolition of the old house is complete. Photo at left of the hole in the ground was taken Wednesday of last week, and looks east toward the neighbor’s house. Clean-up will continue, of course, but with the bitter cold it may be awhile.
I had a love-hate relationship with trees on this property. The tree standing [...]
More miscellaneous bits
The Spirit sails again - I first noted back in August, 2007 that Michael LaValle was planning to bring back the Des Moines dinner boat, known as The Spirit of Des Moines, which was vandalized and destroyed in 1995. This summer, Michael had been trying to finalize the restoration of the boat, but high waters [...]
Pre-holiday randomness
Just a couple miscellaneous notes to share:
1. I guess I write like a man. Or at least, this blog is 59 percent “manly.” Or something. (hat tip to Today’s Sermonette)
2. The lighting in the women’s restroom where I work is on a motion senser/timer prior to 8 a.m., so it shuts the lights off if [...]
Should Christians be judged more harshly for rude behavior?
Shane mused yesterday about the value of having Christian bumper stickers on one’s car – and there was something he said that got my brain going in a slightly different direction. Shane observed:
With others you just see a disconnect with what is on the car and conduct while driving the car. Nice seeing somebody with [...]
Odds and ends
Reunited…
Guess I’m a sucker for a good piece of technology. I went and paid for a second LG enV cellphone over the weekend, to replace the one I lost on Christmas Eve (after owning it less than a week). This photo of my friend’s dog gives you an idea of how good the camera is [...]
Bits and pieces
The Des Moines City Council election is tomorrow. I got mailers over the weekend from Chris Coleman and Frank Cownie, and there was what I would call a puff piece in the Register about Cownie’s opponent. (Link unavailable on Register site, for some reason.) Don’t forget to vote!
In case you missed it, the Holiday Season [...]
Ink-jet medicine will take us to painless tattoos
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the customer newsletter of a local commercial print shop:
“Using ink-jet printing technology, Hewlett-Packard has developed a patch covered with microneedles that painlessly penetrates the skin. Arrayed above the microneedles are wells that contain one or more drugs, along with a miniature “firing” device. The technology… is expected to be commercially [...]
Brooks pleads guilty; what is the cost?
I was reading about former City Councilman Archie Brooks’s newly minted guilty plea, and a few folks on the Register’s website were commenting about how he had done a lot of good for the community over the years. They were rebutted immediately by those who believed that Brooks’s apparent breaches of the public trust far [...]
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‘Queen of Mean’ has the last word
I failed to note last week that hotel baroness and convicted tax evader Leona Helmsley had died… but at the time, I didn’t really have any good links or anything to share that was worthwhile. Since that time, though, I found a great obituary and now today, a story about how her will specifies $12 million going to [...]
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