These links pertain only to Mount St. Helens:

Movie archive

VolcanoCam

The site is kept up-to-date so I imagine a movie will be uploaded to the movie archive section very soon. I'm looking forward to it!

I was 11 years old and living in the Seattle area when the volcano erupted on May 18, 1980 and killed dozens of people. I remember my Mom sending my sister and I to school with painters masks, because she was afraid of us breathing the ash. (It turns out the prevailing winds caused the ash to bypass our area completely).

I remember watching the local news in the weeks before the eruption and seeing the interviews with 83 year old Harry Truman, who was a resident of Spirit Lake... a tiny community in the mountain's shadow. There was lots of seismic activity monitored prior to the eruption, so Spirit Lake residents were warned to evacuate. Harry Truman refused. My sister and I were sad when the May 18 blast wiped out Spirit Lake and Harry Truman was never found.

Here's a link if you want to learn a little more about Harry Truman. Of course a Google search will turn up more links, but I'm feeling lazy this morning! :)
Posted by Grey at 03/09/2005 07:50:39 (Post ID 342) 1 comment

Here's a scaled-down version of the original:

And here's the scaled-down version of what I submitted (click the link about to see the full-size version as usual):

Now back to playing World of Warcraft!
Posted by Grey at 03/05/2005 19:01:40 (Post ID 341) 0 comments

Here's Chris Muir's March 5th comic for those coming here a few days late:

I believe he's referring to a bit of news that just surfaced this week: The Federal Election Commission is considering applying campaign finance law to 'blogs.

More in depth commentary can be found on Michelle Malkin's blog (warning to my liberal friends: conservative blog!).

My blog is very small by comparison and most of my posts aren't political. Even so, I wonder about the implications if the FEC gets their way. Would it mean that I would be prohibited from linking to certain websites, or posting comments in favor of a political candidate, without paying some kind of fine? Even when I'm doing so on my own privately-funded equipment and bandwidth?

These are strange days, indeed! I'm fortunate, though, that I don't live in other countries where bloggers risk arrest for expressing their opinion. Right now I can pretty much say whatever I want. (There are actually a few restrictions, but I'm not interested in writing about those topics)
Posted by Grey at 03/05/2005 09:44:44 (Post ID 340) 1 comment

This so-called columnist named Matt Taibbi decided to write an article entitled The 52 Funniest Things About the upcoming Death of the Pope. Apparently this guy thinks death is funny, and the death of one of the world's most influential religious leaders even funnier.

I'll spare you from the entire list. Here's just a few snippets:

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52.Pope pisses himself just before the end; gets all over nurse.

51.After death, saggy, furry tits of dead Pope begin inexorable process of melting away into nothingness, like coldest of Sno-cones under faintest of suns.

47.Upon death, Pope's face frozen in sickening smile, eyes wide open and teeth exposed, like a baboon.

46.Beetles eating Pope's dead brains.

32.Priest who administers last rites to Pope excitedly calls mother afterward to tell her how well it went.

31.Dead Pope, still with baboon face, wheeled through corridors of Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, learns answer to Great Mystery.

30.Michael Jackson too broke to buy Pope's bones.

24.Pope spends last hours surrounded by cardinals who stand glaring at him with folded arms, silently reminding him of the political necessity of clinging to life.

23.Doctors examining the body discover that the Pope was not only a woman, but also Hitler.

19.To the end, the Pope could only think of the poor and the downtrodden.

18.When he died, he stopped thinking of the poor and the downtrodden, and his face was frozen in that baboon smile, and he thought of nothing at all.

17.In his last days, the Pope was in tremendous pain.

13.Just before death, Pope sits up in his bed, shrieks, his body bursts into flames; everyone runs from the room.

9.Bush on the tragic event: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to this great man and all of his many children."

8.Bush continued: "He touched all of us in places no one else could reach."

4.In 1958, reporters paid off Pope Pius XII's physician to throw open the hospital room window when the Pope died.

3.When a monsignor threw the window open to get some air, the Pope's death was erroneously reported all over the world.

2.This is what happens when weird old men in dresses communicate with the world with doors and chimneys.

1.Throw a marble at the dead Pope's head. Bonk!

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I'm not a Roman Catholic, but c'mon... what a jackass. Don't these newspapers have editors anymore?
Posted by Grey at 03/03/2005 16:56:37 (Post ID 338) 8 comments

Here's a thumbnail of the original:

Here's my entry (click for the full-size version):

Just couldn't resist making another "Kids in the Hall" reference. :)
Posted by Grey at 02/25/2005 07:39:30 (Post ID 336) 1 comment

In response to "Injustice in Clay County, Missouri" (Post ID 191)
03/10/2005 19:14:32 JUSTICE TO BE SEEN:
THERE ARE ALOT OF ISSUES THAT CLAY COUNTY JUSTICE SYSTEM NEEDS TO ATTEND TO BEFORE THE "OLD SAYING" AN EYE FOR AN EYE IS BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE MEDIA. I TOO WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, AND, I'LL HELP IN ANYWAY THAT I CAN.....

In response to "05-Mar-2005's Day by Day: For those who didn't "get" the joke" (Post ID 340)
03/09/2005 21:13:12 Isaiah:
Yeah it's messed up, there is alot of effort to surpress free speech of bloggers. Maybe they want revenge for dan rather? Anyway, check out the EFF site, they are defending bloggers who are being sewed by apple to give the names of the pe....

In response to "From "New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper": utter trash" (Post ID 338)
03/09/2005 16:40:47 Alan Cabal:
I was wrong --- Taibbi wasn't fired. And there's no apology in NY Press. They did print my resignation letter, along with Koyen's feeble attempt at a response. They cut the line about sex advice columnist Judy McGuire being "built like a fi....

In response to "Mount St. Helens eruption video archive" (Post ID 342)
03/09/2005 13:29:32 Isaiah:
Actually, I can see the mountain if I find a nice perch nearby, so that's cool. It's a stomping ground for me. Anyway, the funny thing is that yesterday I had planned to go with a girl up there and go splunking in the lava tubes.

In response to "From "New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper": utter trash" (Post ID 338)
03/08/2005 09:53:37 John M. Esparolini:
"Chris" confesseth:

"I loved the article and laughed my ass off!"

Apparently, Taibbi isn't the only sicko around. Only a pathological bigot with an arrested-development adolescent mind could possibly find any of Taibbi's ....

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