NH Primary Night -- Governor Lynch

NH Primary Night -- Governor Lynch, originally uploaded by marcn.

We took the kids up to Manchester to the John Lynch Re-Election post-primary celebration. Spencer talked to a number of NH State reps asking about what it takes to get started in politics. The "Second First Daughter of NH" did a fine job introducing her father.


"Lynch, a Hopkinton resident, won with 35,333, or 90 percent, to 3,783, or 10 percent, for Forry with 78 percent of the vote reported."

With the Merrimack Dam gone, the Souhegan River has changed

souhegan-up-river-20080829-pano.jpg, originally uploaded by marcn.

This morning I walked down to the Souhegan from behind the High School's baseball field and was surprised by just how much lower the river was!

Here is a slide show of some of the photos I took from the section of the river above the former dam to near where it crosses under Route 3.

Souhegan River, post Merrimack Dam (as a Slideshow)

I recommend folks to take the fairly easy walk down and check it out yourself.

Eric Hutchins of NOAA Restoration Center and some other folks from NHDES Dam Bureau as well as some Boston College students taking some location measurements today. Just where the river bed will end up is still unclear until we have a few seasonal floods. The two little islands are no longer islands (see the Google Map of the area) and sit on a 4" high sandy area. Looking down in the water you can see a much of sand moving, so there will be lots of change there. The nice thing is most places are shallow, rocky and calm enough to just walk across the river. The water level up beyond the highway through to Wildcat Falls are unchanged.

Spencer and Griffin get advice from Senator Joe Biden

Spencer and Griffin get advice from Senator Joe Biden, originally uploaded by marcn.

Well, thanks for Obama's 4:30am text message, it is time to drag these 2006 photos out...

Here are some of my other photos of Joe Biden from the run up to the 2008 Presidential Campaign in New Hampshire.


Nozell/Thomas family with Joe Biden at Manchester Democrats Picnic


Senator Joe Biden talking to Addy

Tall Ships in Portsmouth

Tire Damage, originally uploaded by marcn.

Yesterday I took a few of the kids to Portsmouth to see the tall ships Friendship and Roseway. These close shots showing lots of texture came out well.

Slideshow of Tall Ships @ Portsmouth

July 4th Parade in Merrimack

We walked in support of Governor John Lynch's re-election but also said hello to US Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter and hopefully our future US Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

I don't know who thought of it first, but Trevor got his cast signed and Logan his t-shirt signed by all three of them (and NH 1st lady Dr. Susan Lynch)



After the parade we had a picnic with some friends down at Wasserman Park which was nearly empty. The weather held out and it was a great day.



Here are the rest of the photos: July 4th parade, Merrimack, NH

NH Flickr Group Meetups this Summer

First blueberry!, originally uploaded by marcn.

The NH Flickr Group is planning as photo meetup every Saturday this summer at 5am at some picturesque location.

Last week was at Merrimack's Horse Hill Nature Preserve and this week was at Amhert's Ponemah Bog.

Keep an eye on this discussion group for information on future ones -- NH Flickr Discussion Group

Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama Laughing @ Unity, NH

Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama Laughing, originally uploaded by marcn.

Carol Shea-Porter


Paul Hodes


Jeanne Shaheen


NH Governor John Lynch & Dr. Susan Lynch


Barack Obama


Barack Obama

Barack Obama


Unite for Change

All the photos from the event are here: marcn's buddy icon
Obama/Clinton @ Unity, NH

My new shiny hp 2133 mininote

Last month I ordered an hp 2133 mini-note with pre-installed Linux, specifically Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and it was back ordered until last week.

Here are the obligatory unboxing photos.




Man it is tiny, but after a few hours of getting use to it, it isn't *too* small for typing. I'm getting to like the button under the space bar that disables the touchpad for when you are doing extended typing.


See the rest of the photos here:
HP 2133 mininote unboxing

I'll be blogging more about this nice hardware as I explore it -- hw specs, restore CDs, installing Ubuntu/Hardy and Fedora 9, and any little hints along the way.

Full Disclosure: While I do work for HP, it is not in any PC/notebook related area, although I do use Linux (RHEL4, OEL) on ProLiant servers on a daily basis. Also this a personal purchase for home use. I didn't even get an employee discount!

Who uses my Creative Commons Flickr Photos?

Over 130 websites are using some of the photos I released under a Creative Commons license and are hosted on Flickr

Sites include:

huffingtonpost.com
wired.com
nerve.com
NHPR
motherjones.com
prospect.org
TheAtlantic
wikipedia.org

As well as a bunch of smaller, mostly political blogs.

The most popular photos are those of Hillary Clinton and John McCain from when there were campaigning for the NH Primary.

I keep a complete list of sites here:
Complete list of Who Uses My Creative Commons Flickr Photos

Turkey tracks

Turkey tracks

Originally uploaded by marcn

Griffin, Trevor and I were hiking over on the other side of Wildcat Falls and found these turkey tracks down by the Souhegan River.

Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse

Originally uploaded by marcn

From Merrimack, NH using a Sony A-100 DSLR and a 75-300mm Minolta lens.

Flying Trevor

Flying Trevor

Originally uploaded by marcn

See the rest of the photos from the Interstate Meeting here: Interstate Meet (Methuen, MA)

Trevor admires Ponemah Bog during winter

This morning Trevor and I hiked out to the Ponemah Bog in Amherst, NH.

Compare with these photos of Ponemah Bog

From behind the stage on Primary Night at Hillary Clinton Campaign

From behind the stage on Primary Night at Hillary Clinton Campaign

Originally uploaded by marcn

More photos later...

Hillary Clinton @ Manchester Rally

Hillary Clinton @ Manchester Rally

Originally uploaded by marcn

Last night we took all the kids up to see the last Hillary Clinton rally before the Primary today.



They were all troopers, especially Emma who fell asleep during it.


Wendy was psyched that Hillary signed her homemade sign.


Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton

Check out all the photos from last night: Hillary Clinton Rally, Manchester NH

Elm Street, Manchester NH antics

Vermin Supreme, Republican for President (really)
The boys are supporting Vermin Supreme (yes, really registered as a Republican) in the NH Primary

Originally uploaded by marcn

Sunday some of us walked up and down Elm Street in Manchester, NH to just soak in the political atmosphere.

We saw some fun stuff:

Randy Crow, Democratic Candidate for President (with Spencer)


A GOP person protesting Giuliani


Daniel Imperato, Independent for President


Back of Charlie Gibson's head


Don't Tax me, Bro!


Bill Richardson who we actuall drove over to Litchfield to see.

Barack Obama @ Nashua

Barack Obama

Originally uploaded by marcn

Saturday afternoon Griffin and I saw Barack Obama at the Nashua, NH high school.

Barack Obama at Nashua North High School

Rudy Giuliani @ Nashua Elks Club

Rudy Giuliani

Originally uploaded by marcn

I'm going to start hitting the Republican events -- they are much more exciting.

At this evening's Rudy event at the Nashua Elks' club there was a Pro-Life protester who started yelling at him -- "A vote for Rudy is a vote for Dead Babies" and "You have blood on your hands". The crowd was Pro-Choice and kind of murmured over the protester. Spencer and I ran into the dude (see the complete photoset for a picture of him) and asked who *he* was supporting -- Huckabee.

At the car there was a strange Pro-Life flyer from a mythical Smith 2008 candidate who has a "Negro Problem". It is copyrighted by Randall Terry. I'll scan it in later.

Kennedys campaigning for Hillary in Nashua

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr & Kerry Kennedy

Originally uploaded by marcn

This afternoon at the Nashua Public Library, Robert F. Kennedy Jr , Kerry Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend were discussing why they are Hillary Clinton. At first it looked like it was going to be two other people and myself, but then twenty or so GMU students stopped in.

The complete photoset: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157603635723639/

Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton in Nashua

Hillary

Originally uploaded by marcn

There was a Hillary Clinton event at the Nashua airport this morning. She hasn't changed her speech very much and took a bunch of questions from the crowd.

Two reporters interviewed me mostly interested in knowing what I thought of the 3rd place finish in Iowa and if she should change her message.

All the photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157603630786244/

Bill Clinton taking his own photo


Chelsea Clinton & a GMU student