Saturday, November 02, 2013

Old State House, Boston


From this second floor balcony, the Declaration of Independence was read!

Posted by listener at 1:00:00 AM

9 comments:

  1. listener11/02/2013 08:51:00 AM

    Howard Dean declarations are First!

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  2. puddle11/02/2013 06:58:00 PM

    Well, got the clock back an hour, so no forgetting tomorrow. But promise I'm not liking when the sun sets. . . .

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  3. Anonymous11/02/2013 07:17:00 PM

    Sunrise was about 7:30 this morning, an hour after I left for work...

    The large planting of lettuce I mentioned before is being harvested now; I stopped to take a closer look, and it looks like iceberg lettuce. That should mean prices will go down shortly. Still some cotton to be picked, but for the most part the various fields are being plowed and readied for planting.

    --Alan

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  4. Anonymous11/02/2013 07:48:00 PM

    Catching up a bit... Thanks for the information about how folks actually use their smartphones; it's food for thought. No need for weather alerts hereabouts, thankfully. (Maybe the occasional winter fog warning, but looking down the road is a better indicator.) I suppose if I had a camera handy I might use it. My $9.95 Nokia has a flashlight, and it comes in handy once in a while. My (obsolete model) Kindle gives me free Internet access, although it is slow because of a low-powered cpu. (In fact, it is so low-powered that it doesn't accept cookies and therefore gaily ignores online newspaper firewalls such as that of the Noo Yawk Tahms...) Well, in time we will see what Amazon offers.

    Our new dentist has digital X-ray equipment, and the films are definitely smaller than I have previously encountered (which may be incidental). Much less uncomfortable.

    --Alan

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  5. Anonymous11/02/2013 07:55:00 PM

    Oh, re Captain Phillips, I looked up the movie and when I saw he was the captain of the Alabama, I thought it odd--from Vermont (?), and it didn't seem like that was the name of the captain of the....CSS Alabama (rather than the Maersk Alabama...)

    --Alan

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    1. listener11/02/2013 11:31:00 PM

      The name of the boat is decided by the Merchant Marines, not the captain.

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  6. Anonymous11/02/2013 08:29:00 PM

    How Terrorists Communicate (from the BBC, pardon the cut-and-paste link):
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24784756

    E-mail drop boxes included, just like General Petraeus and his alleged paramour used! So another way for me to give the boys at the NSA some fun would be to leave an encrypted (possibly also randomized) copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh in the drafts file of my web mail server, and open it from various IP addresses. Much easier than adding snippets of it to my e-mails.

    --Alan

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  7. listener11/02/2013 11:33:00 PM

    I'm not changing my clock back until after VT*Grand wakes me up in the early morning.

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  8. Anonymous11/03/2013 12:08:00 AM

    I continue to be disappointed that Mr. Obama does not use the Presidency as a bully pulpit. He should be rubbing the Republicans' noses in their food stamps cuts steadily and with great vigor.

    http://www.juancole.com/2013/11/republicans-elephants-children.html

    --Alan

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