Game sites recommended by Kim Kommando..
Snood
Marbles
Ripleys
languade
Shockwave
Saturday, May 28, 2005
TRACE YOUR ANCESTRY BACK TO AFRICA
For $100, the Genographic Project is offering to trace your roots back article from Kim Kommando Newsletter
to the beginning of human migration. You won't be able to identify your
third cousin, 1,000 times removed. But you will learn where and when
your deepest ancestors originated.
Your participation will be anonymous. The Genographic Project says the
DNA swabs you provide will be numbered. Your name will not be attached
to the results.
If you agree, your results will be entered into a massive study of
genetic migration. That way, you can help us all learn how we got where
we are. There's more information at:
National Geographic
Charles....
ron thomas
Charles Burke... normally I have a go at fixing pictures sent in for the web page. That is I usually see if they can be improved using PICASA before I put them on the page. Almost always the picture is improved... sometimes astoundingly so. This one that we are using at the head of the website was perfect... Ummm are you using Picasa now?
Charles Burke... normally I have a go at fixing pictures sent in for the web page. That is I usually see if they can be improved using PICASA before I put them on the page. Almost always the picture is improved... sometimes astoundingly so. This one that we are using at the head of the website was perfect... Ummm are you using Picasa now?
Next chapter for Christian Longo is a 'True Story'
editors note... For those who have not visited the Oregon Live website before they will ask you to fill out a questionaire relating your age, sex, and zip code. This seems to be happening more and more with large newspapers. I see no danger in your profering that information. Once given they ask no more when you visit their site....
Next chapter for Christian Longo is a 'True Story': "Next chapter for Christian Longo is a 'True Story'
After the killer of four told police he was Michael Finkel, an ex-New York Times writer, Finkel used the link to write a book on the Death Row inmate
Saturday, May 28, 2005
JEFF BAKER"
Next chapter for Christian Longo is a 'True Story': "Next chapter for Christian Longo is a 'True Story'
After the killer of four told police he was Michael Finkel, an ex-New York Times writer, Finkel used the link to write a book on the Death Row inmate
Saturday, May 28, 2005
JEFF BAKER"
EarthLink Offers $69.99 Subsidized PC
EarthLink Offers $69.99 Subsidized PC: "The subsidized PC is back.
Xandros and EarthLink said Thursday that customers who sign up for Earthlink's premium dial-up service can purchase a Microtel Pc for only $69.99, which comes bundled with a Xandros Linux operating system."
Xandros and EarthLink said Thursday that customers who sign up for Earthlink's premium dial-up service can purchase a Microtel Pc for only $69.99, which comes bundled with a Xandros Linux operating system."
Friday, May 27, 2005
Thursday, May 26, 2005
A Fireman's Story.....
as told in a phone conversation between Jim Rose and ron thomas....
Today there was an in park emergency ... our fire department was called. Jim's pager went off with the details, scrambling him and his other brother volunteers to an address on Windmill dr.
Jim jumped in his car and drove to where he thought it might be on Windmill but he could not find the address. It wasn't on a globe and he couldn't find it on a house. He made 3 passes... Finally deducing which home it probably was he went to the aid of the 911 caller. While helping the person he heard the Fire Department rescue wagon pass the house and had to leave the house and flag them down when they turned around and came back because they could not locate it either.
This did not take place at night or in a fog inshrouded morning but in the early afternoon on one of our most brightly lit days. Jim said that it was in deed fortunate that the person involved was not having a heart attack.
If everyone would standardize the practice of putting their house numbers on their globes the emergency responders would not waste precious minutes driving in circles trying to find them.
Some of you have done it yourself recently. That is great. The Social Club Volunteers will do it for a $5 donation to the Social Club. It will cost you a trip to WalMart to buy numbers (buy 3 inch numbers) for about $2 ... Please take the time to cut them out before you mount them on a globe. A couple of you folks did not and frankly all you can see is 3 dark squares on your globe at night. Although they are visible in day light.
For those of you that just are not going to do it because you don't like the way it looks or because you have a greivance with the Social Club or for whatever reason that you have decided upon I personally hope that enough of your neighbors have theirs on so your house can be deduced by the firemen....
Tonight might be a bad time not to have an address visible. Last night at 2am to 5:30am our volunteer firemen were high in the forest above Newport trying to control a slash burn that had gotten out of control... Then they rolled on our community around noon for the above incident... I hope they won't be tired if they are looking to find your address.
as told in a phone conversation between Jim Rose and ron thomas....
Today there was an in park emergency ... our fire department was called. Jim's pager went off with the details, scrambling him and his other brother volunteers to an address on Windmill dr.
Jim jumped in his car and drove to where he thought it might be on Windmill but he could not find the address. It wasn't on a globe and he couldn't find it on a house. He made 3 passes... Finally deducing which home it probably was he went to the aid of the 911 caller. While helping the person he heard the Fire Department rescue wagon pass the house and had to leave the house and flag them down when they turned around and came back because they could not locate it either.
This did not take place at night or in a fog inshrouded morning but in the early afternoon on one of our most brightly lit days. Jim said that it was in deed fortunate that the person involved was not having a heart attack.
If everyone would standardize the practice of putting their house numbers on their globes the emergency responders would not waste precious minutes driving in circles trying to find them.
Some of you have done it yourself recently. That is great. The Social Club Volunteers will do it for a $5 donation to the Social Club. It will cost you a trip to WalMart to buy numbers (buy 3 inch numbers) for about $2 ... Please take the time to cut them out before you mount them on a globe. A couple of you folks did not and frankly all you can see is 3 dark squares on your globe at night. Although they are visible in day light.
For those of you that just are not going to do it because you don't like the way it looks or because you have a greivance with the Social Club or for whatever reason that you have decided upon I personally hope that enough of your neighbors have theirs on so your house can be deduced by the firemen....
Tonight might be a bad time not to have an address visible. Last night at 2am to 5:30am our volunteer firemen were high in the forest above Newport trying to control a slash burn that had gotten out of control... Then they rolled on our community around noon for the above incident... I hope they won't be tired if they are looking to find your address.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
MSN Hotmail - Message
"Maybe we should be sharing these with 10 year old kids instead of the pre-boomers! :-)
sent in via email from Ruthanne Carson
Boomers and Before Boomers
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs, and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife, and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag. not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e-coli?
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.
What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah.. and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played king of the hill on piles of gravel le"
sent in via email from Ruthanne Carson
Boomers and Before Boomers
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs, and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife, and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag. not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e-coli?
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.
What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah.. and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played king of the hill on piles of gravel le"
Report paints grim picture of Northwest after big quake
Report paints grim picture of Northwest after big quake: "Report paints grim picture of Northwest after big quake
A group urges education programs and construction upgrades to help the region prepare for a catastrophe
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
RICHARD L. HILL
At 4 p.m. on the second Tuesday in July, a powerful offshore earthquake rocks the entire Northwest from Northern California to British Columbia. The magnitude 9 quake lasts four minutes, causing thousands of casualties."
A group urges education programs and construction upgrades to help the region prepare for a catastrophe
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
RICHARD L. HILL
At 4 p.m. on the second Tuesday in July, a powerful offshore earthquake rocks the entire Northwest from Northern California to British Columbia. The magnitude 9 quake lasts four minutes, causing thousands of casualties."
USATODAY.com - Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked
USATODAY.com - Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked: "Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked
By Lesley Bannatyne, The Christian Science Monitor
It's 1959. A young Ian Graham packs supplies on a few mules — food, mosquito nets, a camera, a machete — and hires a group of Guatemalans to lead him along the ragged jungle paths they've cut to gather chicle for chewing gum. The team treks through the humid overgrowth until they reach a site his guides had spotted earlier. There, beaten by weather and overrun with vines, lie ruins of the ancient Maya, a civilization that collapsed a thousand years ago."
By Lesley Bannatyne, The Christian Science Monitor
It's 1959. A young Ian Graham packs supplies on a few mules — food, mosquito nets, a camera, a machete — and hires a group of Guatemalans to lead him along the ragged jungle paths they've cut to gather chicle for chewing gum. The team treks through the humid overgrowth until they reach a site his guides had spotted earlier. There, beaten by weather and overrun with vines, lie ruins of the ancient Maya, a civilization that collapsed a thousand years ago."
Rate My Kitten
Here is a website that you..
Rate pixs of kitty's. then on the left you see how other people rated the kitty vs the rating you made.
Rate My Kitten
Buffett's Buying Energy - Forbes.com
Buffett's Buying Energy - Forbes.com: "Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK.A - news - people ), announced a $9.4 billion deal to acquire PacifiCorp, a Portland, Ore., gas and electric company.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Extraordinary Pictures...
Jim Rose sent these in and so did Jack Scherer. They were in a slide presentation in a powerpoint program. Actually there were 34 pixs. These 11 and the one below that Jim Rose sent in are 12 of the best. If you Like we can post more...
To enlarge a picture click it then use your browser's back arrow to return here..
Jim Rose sent these in and so did Jack Scherer. They were in a slide presentation in a powerpoint program. Actually there were 34 pixs. These 11 and the one below that Jim Rose sent in are 12 of the best. If you Like we can post more...
To enlarge a picture click it then use your browser's back arrow to return here..
Death by a Thousand Blogs - New York Times
Death by a Thousand Blogs - New York Times: "Death by a Thousand Blogs
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 24, 2005
Beijing
The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match - the Internet.".........
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 24, 2005
Beijing
The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match - the Internet.".........
Monday, May 23, 2005
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Danger masked by scenes of beauty
Danger masked by scenes of beauty: "Danger masked by scenes of beauty
Dozens of times a year or more, rescuers are called to save unwary hikers or retrieve bodies from Oregon's coastal cliffs
Sunday, May 22, 2005
LORI TOBIAS
NEWPORT -- Tevina Benedict walked away from the Strawberry Hill wayside early in the afternoon two weeks ago, promising her daughter she'd return soon. But when hours passed with no sign of the 54-year-old, a worried Erica Benedict-Barta begged a cell phone from passers-by and summoned the sheriff."
Dozens of times a year or more, rescuers are called to save unwary hikers or retrieve bodies from Oregon's coastal cliffs
Sunday, May 22, 2005
LORI TOBIAS
NEWPORT -- Tevina Benedict walked away from the Strawberry Hill wayside early in the afternoon two weeks ago, promising her daughter she'd return soon. But when hours passed with no sign of the 54-year-old, a worried Erica Benedict-Barta begged a cell phone from passers-by and summoned the sheriff."
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