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.

Year: 2004

  • 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…

  • “I smell a Rat”

    Zogby International The facts as I see them now defy all logical explanations save one–massive and systematic vote fraud. We cannot accept the result of the 2004 presidential election as legitimate until these discrepancies are rigorously and completely explained. From the Valerie Plame case to the horrors of Abu Ghraib, George Bush has been reluctant…