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Closed Captioning

I wrote the caption about the two people who ‘found’ the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not ‘looted’ them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water – we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water.

Earlier here.

More Semantics

Black people “Loot”.

White people “Find”.

City Officials “Empty”.

City officials were taking advantage of the state of emergency to empty an Office Depot, which already had been looted, of supplies they needed for a temporary command center. During a state of emergency, authorities have broad powers to take private supplies and buildings for their use.

Early Warning – October 2001

If a big, slow-moving hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the right track, it would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under 20 feet of water.

Fear of a Black Planet

Black Man… “Looting
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans

Black Man… “Looter
A looter carries a bucket of beer out of a grocery store in New Orleans

White Couple… “Finding
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans

Black man, black woman, black baby
White man, white woman, white baby
Black man, white woman, black baby
White man, black woman, black baby

More here.

Stay The Course

Bush’s August average rating is the lowest for any re-elected president since World War II at a similar point after their re-election, with the exception of Richard Nixon.

He’s now more unpopular than FDR, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Ford, and Clinton ever were, and has matched the highest disapproval rating of his idol, Ronald Reagan.

More here.

Whitest Guy in Kauai

Just back from a mammoth holiday. Michigan, then Ohio, then San Francisco, then a big chunk in gorgeous Kauai, where I spent a lot of time swimming with the fishes. Went for a thrilling helicopter ride, where I kept hearing Ride of the Valkyries in my head for some reason.

I did spot a new fish I hadn’t seen before: Coris flavovittata (Yellowstripe Coris), a juvenile female elongated “slender wrasse“.

Delicious “Eaten raw, dried and salted, baked or broiled“, apparently.

Monkey Business

The monkey folk of South Africa

Gallery!

Wanted some photo albums. Went into total geek mode and installed Gallery, which required the latest Apache2, MySQL, PHP, and a bunch of other nerd utils. To get the damn thing working, I had to go install CygWin, to run CVS, to grab some latest builds. Apparently some people have managed to get it working with IIS 6, but I could not, despite hours of tinkering. And the performance of Apache2 on Windows seems a lot more sluggish than IIS 6. I suspect some Microsoft sabotage effort here.

Higgeldy Piggeldy

The urbanized area in and around Los Angeles has become the most densely populated place in the continental United States, according to the Census Bureau. Its density is 25 percent higher than that of New York, twice that of Washington and four times that of Atlanta.

Bye Bye Glaciers

Argentina's Upsala Glacier was once the biggest in South America, but it is now disappearing at a rate of 200 metres per year