February 3, 2010 By Jesse Doerr @ 2:00 am
Posted a bunch of new pics today. Closed out a batch from 2009 and started 2010 off with a few more.
In other news, I’ve been building a few more tools for the site this week as well. A new rss feed went live yesterday, you can find the link off of the front page here. If you keep an eye on it you’ll get updates on any stories or photos that get posted on the front of the site. The photo pages have been tuned up a little bit too. All of the new galleries posted from now on should be easier to use and look better.
January 12, 2010 By Jesse Doerr @ 11:27 am
It’s always nice to get messages out of the blue from old friends.
Every now and then I get a urge to reconnect with everyone. It seems to happen more often when I’m traveling, but the feeling came on me a couple weeks ago while I was munching on some sausage and cheese in a pub in the Netherlands. So, I pulled up a word processor and quickly had a note put together and ready to send. So I opened up e-mail and just as I’m ready to press send…
I don’t have her e-mail address.
I checked facebook: her account lapsed. I searched the internet: only old contact info. Even worse, none of my other friends could help it seemed.
So I just pressed save and ordered another beer.
But wait long enough and apparently the world will come to you. Either that or she saw my name on someone else’s blog.
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It’s shaping up to be a busy year. Beth and I are finally getting married, more details to come once the invitations go out. So there’s a wedding and a honeymoon to go on, which will probably be two separate events for our own sanity. Work is looking like it’s going to be a lot of fun too. I’ve got a new system coming this fall that is going to be some of our newest and greatest technology. I’ve been wanting to work on these for a while, and I’ll finally get the factory training to go with it.
So the calendar is really starting to fill up and I’m excited for all of it.
April 20, 2009 By Jesse Doerr @ 9:50 am
I’m still fighting hackers here on the site. It looks like I’ve gotten everything cleared up finally, but I guess I can only wait and see. The last time I thought I was in the clear I was attacked again the very next day.
Fun weekend otherwise. Beth’s Mum came up to visit and to check out the big fish auction put on by the Seattle Aquarium Society. I took in a few things to sell, and mostly just hung out to watch what came up and bid on a few items now and then. Barb took home a few great items and seemed to enjoy herself.
Exciting news for me too: I won one of the items from the raffle. I’m playing around with setting up a new big tank eventually and now I get to spend a gift certificate on fish stuff at the Fish Tank People’s online store. I don’t do any salt water tanks, but I’ve got my eye on a couple of the pumps that they sell. So, that should work out just fine.
January 27, 2009 By Jesse Doerr @ 12:32 am
I was out surfing the inter webs today and was amused to find that two of my friends, in unrelated countries and on unrelated trips, had posted very similar accounts of the joys of local transportation. From Laura, who is currently on vacation in Mexico comes this anecdote:
Bus drivers are people who failed out of taxi school, I believe. The buses themselves only hold together by prayers. We careened through narrow roads between sheer cliffs and on the edge of sheer cliffs, coming within inches of disaster several times, and nearly killing at least three or four people who were waiting to be picked up. It was the same sort of thrill you get from a roller coaster.
And then from the other side of the world, Heather really sounds like she wants to learn to drive in Thailand:
The ride up and down from the mountain top was INSANE. The road was originally built by buddhists trying to make merit, a way long time ago. I don’t think the angles, curves, slopes – anything – has been reevaluated since the road was originally built for foot and cart traffic. Now it’s a bit wider and paved, but still has crazy steep inclines and over 180-degree curves, many of which are blind. Also add into that mix Thai drivers’ penchants for lane markings being suggestions, speed limits ignored, and you end up with the group of us wondering if the four-hour walk up the mountain might not have been a better idea.
I can picture just exactly the scenes that each is describing. I would imagine, anyone that has traveled much at all probably can. But, you know, from looking back into the archives I see that I’ve had a few choice things to say about drivers in Iowa myself. So, perhaps Iowa isn’t to blame for secretly being a 3rd world country, maybe there is a more universal truth here about people and driving.
Maybe.
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