...I am my father's son.
Friday, August 19, 2005
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
It's all happening in Sabattus lately
LEWISTON, Maine - James Dougherty, the retired Los Angeles detective who was the first man to marry Norma Jeane Baker — before she went off to Hollywood and took the name Marilyn Monroe — has died.
Dougherty worked for the Los Angeles police department for 25 years, serving as a detective and training the department's first Special Weapons and Tactics group. After his retirement in 1974, he moved to Arizona and later to Maine, living in the small town of Sabattus.
Dougherty worked for the Los Angeles police department for 25 years, serving as a detective and training the department's first Special Weapons and Tactics group. After his retirement in 1974, he moved to Arizona and later to Maine, living in the small town of Sabattus.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Fixing Humvee's in Maine
The Maine Military Authority got its start overhauling surplus Humvees for National Guard units. It was awarded Army contracts worth $22 million for 620 Humvees this year because Army depots in Pennsylvania and Texas were at capacity.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Hurricane caused 'tallest wave'
The distance between the crest of the biggest wave and its trough was 91 ft (27.7 metres) but they suspect the instruments missed some waves that were as tall as 132 ft (40 metres).
Friday, August 05, 2005
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Monday, August 01, 2005
Fenway wallpaper
....finally a solution to the god-awful wallpaper in our dining room !! Makes a great Christmas present !
Monday, July 25, 2005
Friday, July 22, 2005
Refuse to Lose
A unique experience last week when Garrett and I went to the Day of Destruction races. They had something called Spectator Drags which I had never seen before. Essentially, its a drag race, but held on a race track instead of a drag strip. This meant that cars were actually racing, not just being judged on reaction time and horsepower.
The highlight of the event was when a quick, 70-something Duster with a pretty beat up body, put a very nice looking 2000 mustang GT into the wall because the guy wasn’t going top let him pass any other way.
I’ll always remember the announcer saying “Good luck explaining THAT to your insurance company!” as the Mustang limped back to the pits with its passenger side pretty well banged up.
It reminded me of something Earnhardt said (in the movie at least) “It’s not the guy with the faster car that wins, but the one that refuses to lose.”
The highlight of the event was when a quick, 70-something Duster with a pretty beat up body, put a very nice looking 2000 mustang GT into the wall because the guy wasn’t going top let him pass any other way.
I’ll always remember the announcer saying “Good luck explaining THAT to your insurance company!” as the Mustang limped back to the pits with its passenger side pretty well banged up.
It reminded me of something Earnhardt said (in the movie at least) “It’s not the guy with the faster car that wins, but the one that refuses to lose.”
Maine Rock Gym
Maine Rock Gym is a specially designed and highly controlled area that allows people of all ages to safely experience the sport of rock climbing and to take it to what ever level they desire.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Hall of Happiness
May the joy that is everlasting gather in this hall. Not the joy of a sumptuous feast, which slips away even as we leave the table; nor that which music brings—it is only of a limited duration. Beauty and a pretty face are like flowers; they bloom for a while, then die. Even our youth slips swiftly away and is gone.
No, enduring happiness is not in these, nor in the three joys of Jung Kung. We may as well forget them, for the joy I mean is worlds away from these.
It is the joy of continuous growth, of helping to develop in ourselves and others the talents and abilities with which we were born—the gifts of heaven to mortal men. It is to revive the exhausted and to rejuvenate that which is in decline, so that we are enabled to dispel sickness and suffering.
Let true affection and happy concourse abide in this hall. Let us here correct our past mistakes and lose preoccupation with self. With the constancy of the planets in their courses or of the dragon in his cloud wrapped path, let us enter the land of health and ever after walk within its bounds.
Let us fortify ourselves against weakness and learn to be self reliant, without ever a moment's lapse. Then our resolution will become the very air we breathe, the world we live in; then we will be as happy as a fish in crystal waters. This is the joy which lasts, that we can carry with us to the end of our days. And tell me, if you can; what greater happiness can life bestow?
Cheng Man-Ching
New York City, 1973
This poem by Professor Cheng, hung in the Tai Chi studio on 87 Bowery.
No, enduring happiness is not in these, nor in the three joys of Jung Kung. We may as well forget them, for the joy I mean is worlds away from these.
It is the joy of continuous growth, of helping to develop in ourselves and others the talents and abilities with which we were born—the gifts of heaven to mortal men. It is to revive the exhausted and to rejuvenate that which is in decline, so that we are enabled to dispel sickness and suffering.
Let true affection and happy concourse abide in this hall. Let us here correct our past mistakes and lose preoccupation with self. With the constancy of the planets in their courses or of the dragon in his cloud wrapped path, let us enter the land of health and ever after walk within its bounds.
Let us fortify ourselves against weakness and learn to be self reliant, without ever a moment's lapse. Then our resolution will become the very air we breathe, the world we live in; then we will be as happy as a fish in crystal waters. This is the joy which lasts, that we can carry with us to the end of our days. And tell me, if you can; what greater happiness can life bestow?
Cheng Man-Ching
New York City, 1973
This poem by Professor Cheng, hung in the Tai Chi studio on 87 Bowery.
Can you say Muy Largo Cajones ?!
Hand tagging great white sharks...
"What, the dynamite tester job was already taken?"
"What, the dynamite tester job was already taken?"
Deep thoughts...or too much free time
You decide...
"A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HOW MANY 12-YEAR-OLDS I COULD BEAT UP BEFORE THEY OVERTOOK ME- BY MATT SCHWEIGER"
"A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HOW MANY 12-YEAR-OLDS I COULD BEAT UP BEFORE THEY OVERTOOK ME- BY MATT SCHWEIGER"
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Fast truck, big flames
Cool...for so many reasons. A surprise appearance at Beech Ridge Speedway Day of Destruction
Monday, July 18, 2005
The Jerk - Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here. The new phone book's here. This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now.
RiRa - Portland, ME
“All the pub’s interiors were salvaged and restored in Ireland and shipped to Portland. Ri Ra is an exciting combination of history and culture. I cannot imagine more appropriate surroundings than Portland’s waterfront area,” said Ciaran Sheehan, a native of Dublin who designed the pub and is one of the owners.
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