If you haven’t been to Alameda Greenhouse, you’ve missed a local treat. Pansies are in for the next 3 weeks or so for $16 per flat (36 plants). The pansies we planted last September lasted into June of this year, but winter is their season.
You’ll also find cool season veggies, including some pots with several varieties of salad greens.
Exercise your right to vote!
I wish there were a way to assuage the fears of those who really believe voter fraud is a problem without making voting more difficult. (The scoundrels are those who raise this “concern” solely to suppress the vote.)
Eugene Robinson: Voter fraud is an issue that isn’t – The Washington Post
“But you need an ID to do a lot of things, like board a plane,” advocates say. Unlike commercial air travel, however, voting is a constitutionally protected right. To infringe or abridge that right — for no demonstrable reason — should be considered a crime against democracy. …
Minorities, poor people and seniors are less likely than other Americans to have government-issued identification such as a driver’s license — and more likely, for various reasons, to have difficulty obtaining an acceptable ID. They might live far from the nearest motor vehicles department office, for example, and lack transportation. In the case of some older African Americans born in the South under Jim Crow segregation, they might not even have a proper birth certificate of the kind needed to obtain a driver’s license or state ID card. …
The problem in this country isn’t too many people voting, it’s too few. We should be making it easier for people to vote, not harder, and we shouldn’t be imposing requirements that have the same effect as a poll tax.
Eugene Robinson: Voter fraud is an issue that isn’t – The Washington Post
In New Mexico, elderly Navajos are particularly unlikely to have IDs.
This sci fi movie has the look and feel of an older movie, particularly a Spielberg movie. ET plus Iron Giant with a touch of creature feature (and two touches of Harrison Ford’s version of The Fugitive). The cast is pretty good (a nod to Stand By Me). The effects are at times over the top but effective. I liked the pop music soundtrack, but, as is often the case, I found the non-pop mood music excessive and loud.
I’ve enjoyed much of J.J. Abrams’ work beginning with Alias and including much (not all) of Lost. Abrams has a recognizable style. He knows how to move people through an apparent disaster (see Episode 1 of Lost). He makes frequent use of an effect I HATED in his StarTrek – and here – in which a blue light crosses the screen as a kind of flare, masquerading as the effect of lights within the scene. Perhaps he considers that realistic, but I consider it annoying. My first thought is there is a problem with the “film” or transmission/projection; my second thought is fire the camera crew, except it’s really the director who goes out of his way to add this in post production. Ugh.
Abrams also has a signature many of my friends will notice. However, I don’t really like his affectation because it marks him a disciple of that professor – and I am not. Contrived instances of our shared … fetish muddy the waters; I delight in the random, not the staged. (OK, I can’t help but think, “oh, look!” no matter the context and I’ve staged more than one instance.) [If this paragraph means nothing to you but you want to know, follow this link, then this one. It’s innocent fun – or deeply profound – despite my use of the word fetish, which will probably cause the wrong people to follow search results to this entry]
Romney Doesn’t Understand Why You Can’t Roll Down Windows On A Plane | ThinkProgress By Annie-Rose Strasser on Sep 24, 2012 at 2:05 pm
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly,” he told the LA Times. “And you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”
Air crafts do not open windows because the cabins are pressurized to fly safely at an altitude of tens of thousand feet. Opening a window in an airplane would seriously sicken the passengers and crew.
Romney Doesn’t Understand Why You Can’t Roll Down Windows On A Plane | ThinkProgress
mjhinton posted a photo:
"Authorities with the National Weather Service said a high-altitude research balloon was launched from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner." — KOAT
