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Several festivals in Colorado including Telluride. Of course, there is also a podcast.
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That’s my son on TV… Nightline did a great job
10/30/2007
links for 2007-10-30
Nightline — Surfing and Autism: Floating on Glory
Here is a link to the ABC Nightline story that aired late last night about Surfers Healing. Ian was one of the kids featured in this story.
Nightline really did a great job, but the real story is the Paskowitz family and the wonderful folks that make Surfers Healing work and do such fantastic things.
10/28/2007
When do we change our clocks back for Standard Time?
Luckily being off at the return to Standard Time only means you’re wondering where everyone else is because you are an hour early…
Daylight Saving Time – When do we change our clocks?
Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment.
10/27/2007
links for 2007-10-27
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“A former Apple engineer told me the iTunes team is adding features faster than they can be documented. Here’s one I’ll be using a lot: a way to re-download deleted podcasts.”
10/26/2007
TV Boy?
This past August, Ian took part in a Surf Camp for Autistic Kids in San Diego, CA run by Surfers Healing. ABC TV’s Nightline show had a crew there to cover the event. Ian is one of the children that will be featured in the episode which airs on Monday night 10/29. Unless there is ‘breaking news’ or something.
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10/24/2007
links for 2007-10-24
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a reference guide for the blogging software
10/23/2007
California Fire News
Susan Kitchens does a great job of posting about wildfires in her back yard. But just to illustrate how bad the situation is in southern California:
Daily statistics 10/23/07
Current Wildland Fires
California
Fires: 12 Acres: 335,695 New fires: 3 Fires contained: 2Witch (San Diego County): 145,000 acres at zero percent contained.
Ranch (Angeles National Forest): 54,518 acres at 10 percent contained.
Buckweed (Los Angeles County): 37,812 acres at 27 percent contained.
Harris (San Diego County): 70,000 acres at five percent contained.
Santiago (Orange County): 7,865 acres at 30 percent contained.
Canyon (Los Angeles County): 3,800 acres at eight percent contained.
NEW Rice (Los Angles County FD): 6,100 acres at zero percent contained.
NEW Magic (Los Angeles County FD): 1,200 acres at zero percent contained.
NEW Poomacha (Monte Vista Unit, Cal Fire): 1,000 acres at zero percent contained.
Coronado Hills (San Diego County): 300 acres at zero percent contained.
McCoy (Cleveland National Forest): 300 acres at 50 percent contained.
Grass Valley (San Bernardino National Forest): 300 acres at an unknown percent contained.
Roca (Riverside County, California Department of Forestry): This fire was contained at 269 acres.
Sedgewick (Los Padres National Forest): This fire was contained at 710 acres. [via The National Interagency Fire Center's Fire Information - National Fire News]
So, Are They Married Or Not?
OK, this is just one of the problems when things like marriage ceremonies become a local industry.
Were they really married? Couples have cause to doubt [LV Sun]
As far as Kimberly Shirak of Ypsilanti, Mich., is concerned, she and her husband of six months are married – really, truly, legally married.
And to prove it, she’s got a marriage certificate from Las Vegas’ Garden of Love, photos of family members and an Elvis impersonator, and the signature of an official witness.
Problem is, the witness – the chapel’s co-owner – was about 1,000 miles away at the time of the April 7 nuptials, watching an Ultimate Fighting Championship match in Texas.
So, back to the big question: Does that mean Shirak is or isn’t married?
The answer – probably – is as unpredictable and uncertain as love itself. And so the advice that officials have for the Shiraks and 18 other couples married at the Garden of Love that day is that they might want to get married again, just to be on the safe side.
Just to reassure, those of you I performed marriages for, you are still married. Whether you still like that or not. 
10/22/2007
According to Archbishop Ussher…
As we noted last year:
In 1650, the Irish Archbishop, James Ussher, published his computations that the world was created on Sunday, October 23rd, 4004 B.C., beginning at sunset of the 22nd. [Errors in quoting Bishop Ussher]
So this is the big 6010th birthday! Woo Hoo! (note: I miscalculated last year because I apparently was not paying sufficient attention. The equation would not be 4004+2007. Rather it would be 4004+2007-1 because there is no year 0 [zero].) Pesky Gregorian calendar…
10/21/2007
Not Bird Nor Plane Nor Even Frog,
it’s just little old me, Underdog.
His birthday happens every year about this time… This one happens was number six.
Welcome back to those of you who have been along for this whole glorious ride. The rest of you, welcome!