the coast in fog at Bodega Head
the coast in fog at Bodega Head
As matt mentioned on his site, I took my new GPS out for some geocaching yesterday. It was fun, and we saw some great scenery as we hiked around Bodega Head. After we found the cache, we logged our visit on a notebook inside. We also took a picture and left some New Zealand money for another visitor.
skp and matt at the cache
Woohoo, Labor Day Weekend! While we don't have political parades and carry signs that say "Labor Creates All Wealth" anymore, this vacation isn't just signaling the end of summer. Check out the origins of the holiday. It's a good reminder of some courageous Americans who had to fight to change their (and our) lives. Here are some great labor related quotes.
If I ever form a punk band (and I intend to), I think we should be called Outrageous Executive Salaries.
another birthday, yay! I'm 28. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was also born on this day. Not to mention Cameron Diaz, R. Crumb, Ted Williams, and Huey P. Long. That's a good crew.
I put up a new series of old pictures and called it a story.
Apparently, this economic slowdown (don't use the R word yet) isn't affecting everyone. I was stunned by this article (free registration required) from the Chicago Tribune: "Some of the CEOs getting the biggest raises were also the ones laying off the most workers, the report said. These included Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who earned $72.8 million in 2000 while laying off 4,000 workers..." The headline states that CEOs make 531 times that of factory workers. It shows what kind of companies they are when they cut jobs to keep their outrageous executive salaries.
I'm reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol. I must have read it hudreds of times when I was a kid. It was my favorite book. It's odd to read those lines now as an adult and remember them in their muchness. It's like going from big to small and back again. It's all about as curious as it can be.
As meg noted on her site, Blogger is two years old today. I'm happy this application that I helped create and poured my heart into for so long is around helping people communicate. Sometimes I wish I could still be shaping its development. But I can only imagine how bad the terrible twos will be. ;)
If you or someone you love lives with repetitive strain injuries, then you know how very real and painful it is. It disturbs me that Bush's appointment to head up the Labor Department is so callous on this topic. Son of Antonin Scalia, Eugene Scalia (nepotism, anyone?), has called RSI "junk science," "quackery," and "strange." Before heading up the Labor Department, little Scalia represented management in anti-ergonomics cases. [via sotd]
Ergonomics programs reduce health care costs. And they aren't expensive to implement compared with the costs of treating injuries. But that would mean less money for the health care industry. (Not to mention happier, healthier, more productive employees.) A proposed OSHA ergonomics standard for computer workers was recently defeated in Washington. What now? OSHA ergonomics architect David Cochran (from my alma mater) speculates in the SF Bay Guardian. With this appointment, it doesn't look good for workers. Heartless.