Cool! John Edwards will be podcasting!

Starting next week, John Edwards will be podcasting. Is he the first US politician to use this new distribution media?

Link thanks to Oliver Willis on Oliver Willis -- Like Kryptonite to Stupid (a silly name, but interesting political blog).

We can't wait to see him and Elizabeth up in NH in 4 years...

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• The Ed Schultz Show --
  Tagged as: [politics]


• Welcome to CommonBits (beta) - a community directory of progressive media --
  Tagged as: [politics]


• Category:Terms - Rap Dictionary --
  Handy for deciphering music Tagged as: [culture humor]


• Dr Dave%u2019s Blog » Music --
  Excellent mix tapes Tagged as: [mp3 music]


• WordPress Plugins Database --
  Tagged as: [blog wordpress]


• this is sippey.typepad.com: g-mailto bookmarklet --
  Tagged as: [gmail]


• Robs Blog: Gmail Tools --
  Tagged as: [gmail]


• NYPL Digital Gallery --
  Tagged as: [genealogy media]


• ./ on bootable USB keys --
  Tagged as: [boot linux]


• SPB-Linux 2 --
  Tagged as: [boot linux]


• Washing out Microsoft with Linux --
  Tagged as: [humor linux microsoft]


• ongoing · It%u2019s Not Dangerous --
  Tagged as: [blog]


• How To Get Rich & Famouse by Blogging at Work --
  Tagged as: [blogs humor]

Destination Imagination 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

Griffin and Logan's teams competed at Destination Imagination on Saturday. Check out these photos: Destination Imagination 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

No Water + large family => no fun

From time to time our well will run dry -- especially on Sundays after a few loads of laundry, dishwasher runs and everyone getting a shower -- but will fill up overnight. That didn't happen this Monday.

The old water expert guy diagnosed the problem as a dry well, not a pump problem. Of course he was the guy who put in the new pump back in '00.

Some new water experts from Hollis found the water tank's bladder was broken and not letting it fill up. That was replaced and they also lowered our well's pump by 80' to around 380' down. The current 300' is a magic point because that is the deepest a cheap pump motor will handle. All that for only $600. Yay!

There is a 50/50 chance that will fix our water problems permanently, although at a more convenient time we'll probably go to town water.

If we do lose water again, that means the well has dried up and needs to be hydrofracked. They guarantee that it will produce water or they will refund $500 of the ~$1900 for the procedure and *then* we go to town water (~2k-3k)

At least we can flush the toilets again.

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• Spider-Man's Greatest Bible Stories! --
  Tagged as: [humor religion]


• "Freezing, but fun" -- Merrimack's Winter Carnival --
  Quoted in the paper Tagged as: [nh selfpromotion]

Some short videos of Trevor's gymastics floor routine

Here are some short videos taken with our cheap camera of Trevor doing his floor routine at last week's Winter Invitational at Gymnastics Village. The last one is about half of the actual routine.

* trevor-floor-warmup-1.mov (628k)
* trevor-floor-warmup-2.mov (888k)
* trevor-floor-route-partial.mov (7.5M)

The Boston Freedom Trail

The Boston Freedom Trail

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Last Monday I took the school agers down to Boston and walked some of the Boston Freedom Trail. Of course no trip is complete without a stop for food in Chinatown. Yum!