Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: November 2004

  • Ridge steps down as Homeland Security chief

    CNN.com – Ridge steps down as Homeland Security chief – Nov 30, 2004 Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigned Tuesday, but he will remain in the post until February 1 unless a successor is confirmed sooner. “There will always be more to do, but today, America is significantly stronger and safer than ever before,” he…

  • Today’s hiking adventure

    Wow…I had a weird experience today… Raffa and I just got back from hiking down in Big Sur, at Garrapata State Park. Beautiful place. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures, mainly because of what happened. We were hiking along this really rocky and sketchy trail. We were up above, on a little cliff (about 50…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    I wanted to take this time to wish all of you reading this a Happy Thanksgiving. Raffa and I are going to have a quiet Thanksgiving by ourselves today. I bought a pre-cooked Turkey breast from Trader Joes (easy!) . I am going to attempt my first apple pie from scratch..We’ll see how THAT goes.…

  • UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds ‘Smoke Alarm’ for Florida E-Vote Count

    UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds ‘Smoke Alarm’ for Florida E-Vote Count Today the University of California’s Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study – the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e- voting – reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President…

  • Iraq charity worker feared killed – Nov 16, 2004

    CNN.com – Iraq charity worker feared killed – Nov 16, 2004 The director of CARE International in Iraq, who was kidnapped last month, has apparently been killed, the humanitarian organization says. I am saddened to read about the death of Margaret Hassan. This is really awful. It’s all awful, really. But this story, for some…