Archive - Jul 2007

Interesting stuff I found in the 2007 St. Paul budget - from the Public Works:

Saint Paul has:
827 miles of streets
804 miles of sanitary sewers
450 miles of storm sewers
1007 miles of sidewalks
Over 30,000 street lights
486 signalized intersections

I have posted all the Serengeti photos I plan to post. Enjoy! Next comes photos of Simba camp and Ngorogoro Crater...

I got some more photos up from the Serengeti, but more importantly, all the lion photos are processed. Well, all the ones I am putting up anyway. Too many to put them all up. I hope you enjoy - the leopard and cheetah are still to come.

More photos from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. I started adding some captions ... more to come!

The Union Depot is coming back. Opened in 1923, it used to serve some 200 trains a day. In 2012 it will serve Amtrak and a few buses - but it will grow from there. I don't think it is definite yet, but the Central Corridor should be hitting it when built.

At any rate, if you want to more about the Union Depot, Ramsey County Rail Authority has a sweet page about it. At some point, the Midwest High Speed rail line will end at that terminal. That site has more on the high speed rail plans in the Midwest.

I finally started posting photos from the Serengeti National Park. These photos feature a lot of dynamic range - so it has been taking me awhile to process each one. Captions to come.

Anyone want to see Weird Al at the Minnesota State Fair with me on August 27 at 7:30? Tickets are pretty reasonable - looks like it will be about $30 after including the cost of Fair entrance.

For those wondering what I am up to, this has been a busy week. Mostly work, but not all - did see Transformers again. Looking forward to Transformers 2 in 2009!

I have submitted a couple of photos to iStockPhoto and thus far, 2 of 4 have been accepted. This weekend I hope to get a lot more posted on my site.

I doubt any readers of my blog actually doubt that Global Climate Change is occurring, but I still wanted to highlight this quote.

Clearly, if you are going to believe anything outside your own experience, you should have some reason for believing it. Usually, the reason is authority... . It is true that most of us must inevitably depend upon (authority) for most of our knowledge.

I've been reading a lot of blogs and news sources over the past 2 weeks as part of my job. Isen.blog is quite insightful when it comes to telecommunications, but it also linked to a story by Sean Gonsalves about climate change.

Back to the quote - I find it amusing when I hear people arguing over the science of climate change when neither of them really understands it. So each insists (correctly) that the other doesn't really know what (s)he is talking about. As someone who has read a fair amount of the science and tried to listen to the anti-scientists, I readily admit that I am trusting others on this.

Hell, even most of the scientists involved are dependent on others to work on their experiments, take measurements, and that sort of thing. So we all have to trust experts when it comes to this ... picking the experts is where we differ. Deciding what an expert is, is where we differ. I think this is an important nuance that many miss.

I am slowly adding more photos to the Lake Manyara photo album. Keep checking 'em out for updates.