Sunday Morning Music: Antoine Dufour, ‘In My Own Rhythms’
Another great new video from acoustic guitarist Antoine Dufour to start the morning.
Another great new video from acoustic guitarist Antoine Dufour to start the morning.
2 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 10:07:23am |
WTF? Twenty minutes and no ‘good morning’ back? Do I smell bad?
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3 | Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, May 16, 2010 10:08:02am |
re: #2 darthstar
WTF? Twenty minutes and no ‘good morning’ back? Do I smell bad?
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I didn’t want to say anything but….
4 | Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, May 16, 2010 10:09:58am |
I gotta go to work. Darthstar, hold down the fort!!
5 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 10:13:47am |
re: #4 Cannadian Club Akbar
I gotta go to work. Darthstar, hold down the fort!!
Thanks…but if I start having a conversation with myself here Charles will wind up bouncing me before I get to comment 700.
7 | Ericus58 Sun, May 16, 2010 10:22:06am |
Species by species, a habitat takes shape
[Link: seattletimes.nwsource.com…]
“The eruption of Mount St. Helens 30 years ago destroyed so much that often overlooked is what it created: an entirely new ecosystem. More than 130 new ponds and two new lakes were birthed at the foot of the volcano. What’s going on today in and around these ponds isn’t restoration, or renewal, or recovery.
Salamanders, frogs and toads are not just moving back where they were before the eruption. They are taking on whole new territory.
It’s the assembly, species by species, of a new habitat.”
8 | Stonemason Sun, May 16, 2010 10:26:19am |
re: #7 Ericus58
Species by species, a habitat takes shape
[Link: seattletimes.nwsource.com…]
“The eruption of Mount St. Helens 30 years ago destroyed so much that often overlooked is what it created: an entirely new ecosystem. More than 130 new ponds and two new lakes were birthed at the foot of the volcano. What’s going on today in and around these ponds isn’t restoration, or renewal, or recovery.
Salamanders, frogs and toads are not just moving back where they were before the eruption. They are taking on whole new territory.
It’s the assembly, species by species, of a new habitat.”
Wow…ELF and the rest of the greens better get on the ball, do some research and put that place back the way it was. Can’t have any eco-system change…
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9 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 10:29:46am |
re: #8 Stonemason
Wow…ELF and the rest of the greens better get on the ball, do some research and put that place back the way it was. Can’t have any eco-system change…
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Yeah…I can’t wait until I’m in my 70s or 80s so I can get all happy about oyster and shrimp farming returning to the Gulf of Mexico.
10 | SpaceJesus Sun, May 16, 2010 10:50:27am |
11 | Walter L. Newton Sun, May 16, 2010 10:59:18am |
re: #5 darthstar
Thanks…but if I start having a conversation with myself here Charles will wind up bouncing me before I get to comment 700.
Say something… I’ll talk to you… if I have too.
12 | Cathypop Sun, May 16, 2010 11:00:14am |
re: #11 Walter L. Newton
Say something… I’ll talk to you… if I have too.
You are a brave man Walter.
13 | Walter L. Newton Sun, May 16, 2010 11:01:09am |
14 | Walter L. Newton Sun, May 16, 2010 11:01:25am |
re: #5 darthstar
What did you think of the last episode of LOST?
15 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 11:02:42am |
Okay…I know, I know…it’s Palin spewing stupidity…but watch how closely she has to read her teleprompter…it’s pathetic. “We’re all Arizonans now.” (that’s at the 2:00 mark or so) No, Sarah, we’re not all racists now, which is what you’re saying.
16 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 11:03:24am |
re: #14 Walter L. Newton
What did you think of the last episode of LOST?
Is the show over now? Cool. I was hoping it would end soon.
17 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 11:03:55am |
18 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 16, 2010 11:07:30am |
I know we’ve been picking on the Catholics alot lately but….
Hartford Archbishop Urges Parishes To Fight Legislation On Child Sex Abuse Cases
19 | Cathypop Sun, May 16, 2010 11:09:23am |
Just realized that my cat is in the middle of the road sleeping. Two cars have slowed down gone around him. Good thing very few people use this road. Alfie must think he owns the road.
20 | Walter L. Newton Sun, May 16, 2010 11:09:57am |
re: #16 darthstar
Is the show over now? Cool. I was hoping it would end soon.
I said the last episode, not the LAT episode. There is still one regular episode and then a 2 1/2 hour finale. This Tuesday and then next Sunday evening. I hoping to get off next Sunday evening, but I am low man on the seniority totem pole and Sundays are the hardest days to fiddle with, since most people want them off. Manager is going to try to schedule me a little earlier in the day so I can be home by 8:00pm mountain time.
21 | Racer X Sun, May 16, 2010 11:11:18am |
re: #15 darthstar
Okay…I know, I know…it’s Palin spewing stupidity…but watch how closely she has to read her teleprompter…it’s pathetic. “We’re all Arizonans now.” (that’s at the 2:00 mark or so) No, Sarah, we’re not all racists now, which is what you’re saying.
[Video]
Yes. Because it is a totally racist law, and everyone in Arizona is racist. And Nazi.
22 | Ericus58 Sun, May 16, 2010 11:12:07am |
23 | darthstar Sun, May 16, 2010 11:18:15am |
re: #22 Ericus58
Are you sure you want to get into that “Teleprompter” thingy?
Just sayin’…
At least the President has the forethought to rehearse his speeches before he gives them, so the teleprompter is there as a guide. He isn’t leaning forward trying to follow the magic text.
24 | Boogberg Sun, May 16, 2010 11:19:52am |
Any stock market people hangin’ around? What’s on tap for tomorrow? Any predictions?
25 | Walter L. Newton Sun, May 16, 2010 11:22:03am |
re: #24 Boogberg
Any stock market people hangin’ around? What’s on tap for tomorrow? Any predictions?
Markets will open.
27 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 16, 2010 11:25:37am |
re: #24 Boogberg
Market futures
Doesn’t look very good.
28 | Boogberg Sun, May 16, 2010 11:29:17am |
re: #27 Killgore Trout
I think that’s leftovers from Friday, Killgore.
29 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 16, 2010 11:32:31am |
re: #28 Boogberg
I think that’s leftovers from Friday, Killgore.
Ah, you’re right. Sorry about that.
30 | Cathypop Sun, May 16, 2010 11:33:36am |
re: #24 Boogberg
Any stock market people hangin’ around? What’s on tap for tomorrow? Any predictions?
I predict that the sun will rise in the east. Yup!
31 | Political Atheist Sun, May 16, 2010 11:33:38am |
re: #29 Killgore Trout
Just another few hours for the global spot market to open…
32 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 16, 2010 11:33:53am |
Some possible good news: BP says tube successfully inserted back into Gulf leak
Oil company BP says it has successfully reinserted the end of a tube into a damaged oil pipe nearly a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, after a weekend setback halted efforts to siphon off the crude.
The system was able to send some of the leaking oil to be captured aboard a drill ship on the surface overnight and burned off some of the natural gas released in the process, according to a statement from the joint BP-Coast Guard command center leading the response to the oil spill.
The siphon is fashioned from a 4-inch pipe and is inserted into the riser of the damaged well at the heart of the leak. The pipe is then connected to a ship on the surface, 5,000 feet above the sea floor.
If successful, the technique will capture most of the oil that has been pouring out of the well since the sinking of the drill platform Deepwater Horizon in late April. But the effort was dealt a setback Friday night, when the frame holding the insertion tube shifted and prevented the surface vessel from connecting to it, said Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production.
33 | swamprat Sun, May 16, 2010 11:34:39am |
re: #28 Boogberg
Go short on gulf shrimp and oyster futures.
Grouper doesn’t look good either.
Mudbugs are very, very iffy.
34 | Racer X Sun, May 16, 2010 11:36:26am |
re: #32 Killgore Trout
Some possible good news: BP says tube successfully inserted back into Gulf leak
Good news. We need this spill to be contained as quickly as possible.
35 | Renaissance_Man Sun, May 16, 2010 11:39:14am |
re: #19 Cathypop
Just realized that my cat is in the middle of the road sleeping. Two cars have slowed down gone around him. Good thing very few people use this road. Alfie must think he owns the road.
And some people say cats are smarter than dogs.
37 | justaminute Sun, May 16, 2010 11:42:02am |
I can’t predicit the markets. I am getting ready for a pre-planned trip to New Orleans this week and I can’t help but wonder why more reporting is not being done on the gas escaping with the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Since all their solutions seem to be failing. They talk about another rig or two being used to drill a relief well; isn’t that dangerous to drill in areas with all that methane floating around. After all, isn’t methane forming the ice crystals that stopped their other attempt at putting a dome it?
38 | swamprat Sun, May 16, 2010 11:42:41am |
re: #19 Cathypop
Not happy about this. Hope he is sleeping.
39 | Cathypop Sun, May 16, 2010 11:43:50am |
re: #38 swamprat
Not happy about this. Hope he is sleeping.
He’s okay. Got up real fast when it started to rain.
40 | swamprat Sun, May 16, 2010 11:55:16am |
re: #36 Boogberg
Link was broke, but I took out the extra http and watched it. Justin is always entertaining.
41 | _RememberTonyC Sun, May 16, 2010 11:58:40am |
socialist scumbag …
[Link: www.businessweek.com…]
43 | austin_blue Sun, May 16, 2010 12:27:48pm |
re: #32 Killgore Trout
Some possible good news: BP says tube successfully inserted back into Gulf leak
KT-
The Riser is 21” in diameter. The Production Casing is 7” in diameter. They say they inserted the 4’ Relief Line in the *Riser*.
So where is the release point? From the casing, the riser, or both?
Let’s do the math:
The riser is 338 square inches in area. (10.5 X 10.5 X Pi)
The production casing is 38 square inches in area. (3.5 X 3.5 X Pi)
The relief line is 13 square inches. (2 X 2 X Pi)
You see the problem. If they put the relief line in the riser, one must assume that they had a “backside blowout”- that the cement on the *outside* of the production casing failed. But that would mean that release covers an area of 300 square inches and the relief line can only recover 4% of the oil.
Not good.