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(Yes shameless self promotion, but what the heck, it's Friday!)
jan
So don't be ashamed at a little shameless self-promotion. God knows, I never am!
But the other day I was working a Cold Case. Turns out somebody who had been tangential to the investigation, but who could verify some information somebody else had let slip, also happened to be the brother in law of another man who had been murdered.
That guy (it was a separate case, but one I've worked) happened to know a guy in the Russian military who I used to correspond with. Back when I was younger I decided, as a sort of personal project at first, to establish a private network of contacts, Intel sources (though I didn't think of it that way at the time) and associates all over the world, and many of my contacts were in places that were considered suspicious (to say the least at that time, during the Cold War) like Russia, China, parts of Africa, Asia, South America, etc. Well, anywho one of my favorite contacts was a young officer in the Soviet Army.
This was at the very beginning of Glasnost and Perestroika and I encouraged him to unload about the Soviet System (what he felt he could safely express anyway, we developed a private code system) and to do what he could within the Soviet Union to agitate for political and social change, in short to help weaken Soviet communism. At that time both sides looked very suspiciously at anyone with contacts in either country and you could tell that both the KGB and FBI monitored our letters and contacts (this was long before the public internet).
Well, after the Fall I lost all contact with him and some of my other friends inside Russia, such as the professors and students I knew at the University of Saint Petersburg.
Turns out he eventually left and immigrated to Europe, then Canada, then America. He went to work for a firm in the US which assists with analysis and has a little side business with a partner. Turns out he had been looking for me too, and I just happened to run into the brother in law of a murder victim while working another case and that guy knew my old Ruskie friend who was also hoping to meet me one day. But neither us ever thought that would happen, hell, that's been 20 or more years ago now. Anyway, I gonna follow-up, probably next week.
The world is funny that way.
Sometimes it's too big, sometimes it's too small, and sometimes it's just right.
Disgusting, ain't it?
Pretty soon Europe will be protected by a Fleet of Tugboats and fairy-craft. Heavy on the fairy...
Jan, I love airplanes of all sorts. I took flying lessons and will never forget my first solo flight.
The links above are good ones.
I joined Weight Watchers and so did my daughter in Olympia, Washington. We are having fun talking about all the great food choices and adding points. We feel this is a great group and they have helped millions lose that unwanted weight and keep it off. I am like a tetter totter and have gained and lost and this time I think it will help me tremendously as well as gain some new friends that have the same issues. I get down to goal weight and then go off and gain. The e-tools online are fantastic and I feel good about this decison. I love the excitement in my daughter's voice.
so my link would be, www.weightwatchers.com ;-)
Martin, those pictures are grim :-( ICK!
As an old-time Chicagoan, Milwaukee is infinitely more interesting than Madison, even if Madison holds world-class status in pretentiousness.
Tomorrow marks ten weeks since I busted three ribs. But I'm going to have them checked out by a Group Health Cooperative chiropractor before I try pumping iron on the weight machines once again.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Made me laugh.
-- friday night lamer
I have found the most Freudian rocket ship ever made.....
looky
It is actually a serious proposition.
(I neeeed my BSG fiiiix.....)
The ribs seem a lot better, but I don't want to squash them at the fitness center, so I want them checked out before trying the upper-body stuff again.
I judge the quality of my trips to Milwaukee to some degree by the quality of the stuff I see when I get there, such as at the big public museums, and no less importantly on the quality of the food I get steered to. (After all, why starve me? I'll die in the end anyway, won't I?)
Here's looking at you, kid.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
If I'm reading the article right, does it mean that one aircraft carrier, two mine-defense ships, and two tankers are half of the Royal Navy? There was also no mention of Britain's two planned CVF vessels to replace their current ones.
Shoot, even Spain may have a more powerful navy than Britain if that's the case!
(Meanwhile, with our thirteen supercarriers, we easily dwarf everyone else put together)
I didn’t realize you’re in Baltimore. I’m a little over an hour's drive to your north west.
And I might have to drive down there and bitch slap you for punkin me so bad last night.
Crazy Liquids
Yay! the sealanes are OURS! Mwahahahahah
As an old seadog, that just warms my briny heart....
I sorta think that the euros are relying far too much on air power. Its a powerfully seductive form of military might - it seems cheap in manpower terms, safe-ish to fight from a distance, and it gets to make the best of technological advantages. But while you can project power, I don't think you can win with it, only destroy.
I think we've generally got a good balance of forces, but we sometimes get caught up in that siren-song too. Not enough realise that the US needs to be a sort of naval power given that what's traditionally protected and fed/fueled us have been our oceans.
blahblahblah. GF just left for the night, I'm happily babbling, setting up my downloads, etc...I'm trying to get a decent linux distribution for my toshiba laptop. Ubuntu works great for everything but wireless [I need ndiswrapper, which is rough in that one]. I'm dling knoppix right now.
Other than all of that dreck I'm gearing up for my 2-week Pox seminar. w00t!
Truly an excellent film, on all counts.
Ali, I'm not far from Baltimore either. I'm up here in the rolling hills of Carroll County.
I find the pacing of the show, especially first series, to be remarkable, given that shows now would run all over it. I mean, guys just sitting there looking at each other for whole minutes...
I haven't gotten to the second season yet, supposedly the quality goes way way down. The theme song gets changed too, not nearly as good.
Oh, I'm near Baltimore as well, in Baltimore County.
I am playing the thing non-stop. I just got 5 stars on all medium and easy songs and am on hard difficulty. I think I am getting carpal tunnel and I still can't put the thing down. My love of music and my love of video games makes this very, very addictive. :)
Awesome game, I would reccommend it. Especially Guitar Hero II, it has the Allman Brothers Band on it as well as Heart, Rage Against the Machine, Rush (yyz),and Anthrax.
Well here goes another wasted Friday. What's worse, I have other people addicted to it too. At least I have someone to play with now. :)
--|PW|--
She is actually. That's the level Republicans go to. :P
SATELLITE INTERNET SERVICE
I got satellite internet service a month ago, I LOVE IT! We needed rain really badly so I didn't get a chance to see what kind of clouds were needed to knock me off the beam. It takes a really good thundercloud.
We had really nice rain, too. Am I using really too much? Oh really? Hey, I'm a southerner.
WATER COLLECTION SYSTEM
We live in a wilderness where I hear the whooping cranes all winter long as they live only a few hundred yards, in some cases feet, over the fence on the ranch next door. Our well water is extremely salty and has ruined the dishwasher, water heater, and chrome fixtures in the 8 1/2 year old home. My son has come to the rescue and is installing a water collection system for us. Two months ago he came down from Austin with a 3000 gallon tank loaded onto his pickup and got started on the system. While the pump to get it into the house and filters to sanitize it have not yet been installed the tank now has about 1000 gallons of water in it. This the result of two rains of two inches and less. Right now the system is only collecting from the detached garage, when we add the house into the collection system the rate from a small rain will be extremely good. Our water has a very high ph and rain water is acid so we will probably wind up mixing the two as we use it.
Wow, more people from the Maryland around here than I would've guessed. It's nice to know there are some local folks here.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.