Category Archives: Current Events
Blue Screen of Death at Olympics
August 22, 2008 – 1:04 pm
This is really funny. I was wondering how they were projecting all the way around the stadium at the Bird’s Nest at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I was guessing it was one huge computer or a network of computers working together. Well, now there’s more details. It seems they were using Windows Here’s some [...]
Forward from Grandma - Floodwater in Iowa (2008)
July 3, 2008 – 11:49 am
I’m starting a new series of blogs titled “Forwards from Grandma”. I’m only going to post the ones that are true. About half don’t pass the Snopes.com test. This one does however. I will research them before I post them here.
This series of Photos is from around Iowa during the Storms and Floods of [...]
Saylorville Lake & Des Moines Area Flooding
June 10, 2008 – 4:54 pm
I recently drove around the Saylorville Lake area and took some pictures and video of the area flooding. Tonight we are going to go and get some more shots when the dam overflows. The emergency overflow is going to start flowing and will double the output of the spillway. Here’s some pics:
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China Earthquake Videos
May 12, 2008 – 2:01 pm
I found a few videos from today’s earthquake in Sichuan, China.
College students during quake:
This one was taken with a jailbroken iPhone:
This one was almost 1,000 miles away in Beijing:
This one starts at about 5min into the video:
Gas Prices and Iran’s Hurricane
June 6, 2007 – 11:29 am
Thanks to a tip from my cousin Brian, Iran is about to get smashed by a Cyclone named Gonu. I’m guess this is going to effect gas prices once again. Brian pointed out that it’s been a while since Iran has been hit by this bad of weather. Hopefully this is a part of God [...]
Israel & World War III
July 14, 2006 – 11:24 pm
I have talked with a few people lately and found most people do not know what the pictures are above. I could even say, “This is Israel and Lebanon”, and they would say, “Ok…”, but they would still not get it. This is going on right now as I type this. And again, people would [...]
1st Graders take Sex Survey
November 16, 2005 – 8:30 pm
I cannot believe this, I am so mad right now, You have to read this article and then the opinion from Alabama House of Representative, Jo Bonner. It is about 1st, 3rd, & 5th graders taking a sex survey in school. I will post the survey if I can find it anywhere online. We gotta [...]
Warning to Friends & Family in Iowa
November 15, 2005 – 9:04 am
Search in Iowa for Two Escaped Killers
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
DES MOINES, Iowa — Two convicted murderers have escaped from the maximum security portion of the Iowa State Penitentiary, jail officials said.
Martin Shane Moon, 34, and Robert Joseph Legendre, 27, were last seen at 7 p.m. Monday. Their whereabouts are unknown and officials are investigating how [...]
Ready America
October 10, 2005 – 9:37 am
Ready.gov is a great website and something we all need to think about. I think of the hurrican victims and what they would do for just one of the items on the lists available from this website. I think there are many vulnerable systems in the US that we depend on that can easily be [...]