When I went to do Clean & Feed at Good Mews yesterday morning, I met three new residents in Intake. Nola (a gorgeous Russian Blue mix), Lucy, and Lizzie (a pair of real cuddlebugs) were rescued, along with three kittens in Isolation that I didn’t meet, from Slidell by one of our volunteers. Shannon says […]
I heard this on the radio as I was driving over to meet my Mom at Beads By Design. According to Neal Boortz, Hurricane Katrina forced the temporary closure of 120 Waffle House restaurants along the Gulf Coast. Eight of those restaurants were completely destroyed (including the one on Beach Blvd. in Biloxi where DH
Yesterday at dinner DH asked me if I would do like some of the Gulf Coast residents and refuse to evacuate my home if it meant leaving my cats behind. No, I would not refuse to evacuate, but I would not leave Sarah, Donovan, and Shadow either. It wouldn’t be necessary because I would have
I continue to wonder about today’s sorry state of education in this country. Yesterday and today I talked about text representation in Intro to CS. One of the topics is the Unicode character set, which contains binary definitions for every known written language alphabet in the world. That includes the Cherokee language, which was invented
Herbie sent out this link last night to the AB lists. READ IT. The Interdictor — a blog from the front lines of the aftermath of Katrina. Directnic.com is a web service provider in the CBD of New Orleans on Poydras Street (not far from the Superdome). Michael and a small group of his coworkers
Lampworker Kim Neely, who lives a mere 70 miles north of New Orleans, posted an eBay auction on Thursday, with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the Red Cross’s Hurricane Katrina effort. Some other eBay seller ratted her out and eBay pulled her auction (they only pull listings for violations if someone brings it to
I don’t care for playing “Monday Morning Quarterback,” nor do I care for people who do so. However, after four days of monitoring the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I, like many people, am going to be asking some very tough questions of the world around me. Why is the relief effort so disorganized? The computer
On the way home, BP and Chevron are still out, as was the Chevron at Roswell and Dalrymple. Where there was gas, it was running $3.15 – $3.19. Sounds like that may be the stable price point for the time being. According to atlantagasprices.com, the average price right now is about $3.10. That’s a big
Checked the gas stations on JF this morning. BP and Chevron were out. Shell had gas for $3.15 as of 8:20 a.m., up from $2.89 as of 7:45 last night. The stations at Roswell and Dalrymple seemed to have gas, and didn’t seem to be gouging (though I didn’t get a real good look), but
Randy called me this afternoon to let me know about the area Gas Hysteria. I rolled my eyes. On the way home tonight I saw prices of $2.79 – $2.89 at the three stations on JF Road, and ridiculous lines waiting to get into each one. All because of rumors and paranoia. Yes, gas prices