Video (3 clips): March on DC, September 24, 2005 | Ourmedia
I shot three short movies with my digital still camera.
9/25/2005
Stills: March On DC, September 24, 2005
March On DC, September 24, 2005
Here are my still photos from yesterday’s adventure.
9/24/2005
9/11/2005
SandBuck Down Under
Groundspeak Travel Bug Details
In 2002, near the the beginning of my Geocaching adventures, I set loose a “travel bug” in Virginia. I was quite pleased when less than a year later, it made it to California (via Maryland, Illinois, Florida and Pennsylvania).
Imagine my glee when I was notified today that the little echinoderm has now trekked all the way to Tasmania! (Via California, Oregon, Hawaii and Australia.) This little puppy has travelled 19,908 miles!
[It should be noted that while the TB tag is the original, the sand dollar itself is actually a successor, as the original one disintegrated but was graciously replaced by generous geocachers back in October 2003.]
9/10/2005
9/8/2005
Panera strikes back
Well, the folks at Panera did respond to my missive, as follows:
Dear Sean,
Thank you for contacting Panera Bread about our Tomato and Fresh Mozzarella Salad. We have good news for you. While the salad is not currently a featured menu item, many of our operators make it available to customers as a special request. Please ask a manager or associate if it is available in your local bakery-cafe.Thanks again for contacting us. We appreciate your business and value your comments.
Sincerely,
Alice
Customer Comment Coordinator
9/5/2005
A Summer Lost
I’m a big fan of Panera, but alas, this summer they’ve let me down. Here’s the text of a letter I sent them today:
One of the pleasures of the summers of 2003 and 2004 was the tasty treat of the Tomato & Mozzarella salad. This summer, I’ve waited in vain, having to stare at the cursed Fuji Apple Chicken Salad which has usurped the spot at the top of the menu reserved for seasonal salad offerings. Now, it’s Labor Day and summer has officially come to an end with no opportunity for the savory and sweet texture of tomatoes with a chiffonade of basil and thinly sliced red onion and the elegant creaminess of fresh mozzarella. How unfortunate for me and multitudes of other diners. Perhaps the Panera powers-that-be will reconsider for the summer of 2006…so many mouth-watering months away.
Pattern Recognition
Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment
So now we see the administration revert to type. 9/11 was Bill Clinton’s fault, and the CIA’s fault. The recession was Clinton’s fault, too. The deficit has nothing to do with tax cuts, but is the fault of the famous “trifecta” of war, recession and national emergency. The little screwup about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was, once more, the CIA’s fault, and had nothing to do with the administration’s own misuse of intelligence. And the failure to put enough boots on the ground in postwar Iraq to control the country? That must have been the fault of the generals who didn’t ask for more troops. Torture in Abu Ghraib? No one’s really to blame there except a few bad apples.
Now comes Katrina, and Bush is once again saying, don’t look at me — the buck stops nowhere. If so many lives weren’t on the line in so many places and in so many ways, it might even be funny.
9/3/2005
The line, such as it was, appeared to be longer based on price as
opposed to shortage. (Nearby stations were $3.15.9 and up.)
