November 2005

Hurricanes on Jupiter Must be the President’s Fault

How long before the Democrats blame this on George Bush‘s reluctance to sign the insane Kyoto Pact?

Jupiter’s Massive Winds Likely Generated From Deep Inside Its Interior, Scientists Report

A new computer model indicates Jupiter’s massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet’s interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report in the journal Nature.

This image shows results from a computer simulation of Jupiter’s winds. The color contours show wind speed with red representing eastward flows and blue representing westward flows. (Credit: Dr. Moritz Heimpel, University of Alberta, Department of Physics)

Jupiter’s powerful winds are very different from those on Earth. They continually circle the planet, and have changed very little in the 300 years that scientists have studied them. Massive east-west winds in Jupiter’s equatorial region reach approximately 340 miles per hour — twice as rapid as winds generated by strong hurricanes on Earth. At higher latitudes, the wind pattern switches to alternating jets that race around the planet.

See “Jupiter’s Massive Winds Likely Generated From Deep Inside Its Interior, Scientists Report” from Science Daily for the complete article.

And, by the way, mankind is not the cause of Global Warming.

Damsel Sends You Skyline Arch

Arches National Park preserves over two thousand natural sandstone arches. Skyline Arch is visible from the Salt Valley road in the North central section of the park.

We’re looking forward to our next excursion to this beautiful and scenic region.

16 Nov 2005 by Damsel Photography Travel

Over One Million Served

As of now, there have been over a million hits on the Never Forget animated graphic, since I started counting!

The animation was originally inspired by an anonymously-produced PowerPoint slideshow making the rounds on the internet and via emails after 9/11. I gathered some of the graphics and produced the prototype of the graphic to display on my personal website. After refinements and improvements suggested by Damsel and others, it appears as it does today.

Last August, I made an offer to display the Never Forget Animated Graphic to anyone wishing to display it. This is the graphic seen in the right sidebar depicting the attacks on America by terrorists. The offer was only taken by a few sites at first, but since then, many more have begun displaying the animation. In fact, there are currently about 200 sites showing the graphic, and that number has been growing by about three a day. Sites in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and Italy (maybe more) have it on their pages.

After appearing on a couple dozen websites, I looked at the bandwidth that it was consuming, and decided to close the offer for new websites since I am limited in bandwidth by my ISP. When I published my intent to close the offer, Wonder Woman from North American Patriot made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: her webmaster would host the graphic on a non-bandwidth-limited server! Of course, I accepted and am still very grateful for their generosity.

Damsel and I believe that the War on Terror is the most important issue before the American People and our Allies. The presence of this graphic on our site indicates our unwillingness to forget what happened and what still needs to be done. It makes us very proud to see our graphic on so many sites (getting 20,000 hits a day) and gives us comfort knowing there are so many like-minded people in the blogosphere willing to display the graphic.

Thanks to all who display it and thanks again to North American Patriot.

You can get the script to display the graphic on your website at the Never Forget page.

15 Nov 2005 by CapnBob Blogosphere Islamic Terrorism Patriotism

Damsel Sends You the Three Gossips

Another of the many unusual and beautiful rock formations in Arches National Park.

14 Nov 2005 by Damsel Photography Travel

Alligators in the Sewers, Part V

The story surrounding Reggie, the alligator in Harbor Regional Park, keeps getting stranger and stranger.

From the Daily Breeze: The alligator is still at large, but T-Bone isn’t

Sometimes you’re the hunter and sometimes you’re the prey.

Thomas “T-Bone” Quinn, the colorful New Orleans man who tried — and failed — last month to catch a defiant alligator loitering in a Harbor City lake, has himself been captured and shipped back home, court records show.

Quinn was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies Oct. 20 and extradited to Louisiana Nov. 5. Quinn’s mother said he was trying to start a new life in Los Angeles when he was nabbed for outstanding warrants related to probation violations. It seems Quinn was on parole, after serving time in prison for writing bad checks, said Sandy Quinn Barton from her home in Augusta, Ga. “He knew he was going to get picked up,” she said. “He’d have to know that. This is not his first rodeo.”

Photo: Thomas “T-Bone” Quinn – Brad Davison/Daily Breeze