In April there were 49,974 visits to NewMexiKen from 35,710 different IP addresses in 120 countries, Guam and Puerto Rico.
January….25,276
February…33,781
March…….39,341
April………49,974
Last April there were 3,272 visits to NewMexiKen.
“Pain, or damage, don’t end the world. Or despair. Or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you’ve got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.”
Deadwood’s Al Swearengen to the newspaper publisher A.W. Merrick, who has just had his press and office vandalized (Episode 19).
Shorter President Bush:
“I can’t kill Social Security right now so I’m going to change it from a program for everyone to a program for poor people, and then we can kill it ten years from now.”
Ah, the importance of worshipful friends or family in building a legend.
John Luther Jones from Cayce (pronounced Cay-see), Kentucky, famous to us through song as a brave engineer who romantically died trying to make up time. In truth, he crashed his locomotive at high speed into a freight train that was attempting to get out of the way on a siding. According to reports he failed to heed warning signals that were out. The accident took place early in the morning of April 30, 1900. Jones was the only fatality.
Jones was known for his affability and his skill in blowing a train whistle. His engine wiper, Wallace Saunders, reportedly idolized the engineer. Saunders wrote the original song.
All you might want to know can be found in this 1928 article.
George Washington took office as the first President of the United States on this date in 1789. Because neither the House nor Senate achieved a quorum until April, Washington’s unanimous election on February 4, wasn’t made official until April 14. Washington immediately departed Mount Vernon for New York to take the oath and was met along the way with parades and dinners in every little town.
As Madison noted, Washington was about the only aspect of the new government that really appealed to people.
Louisiana was admitted to the Union as the 18th state on April 30, 1812.
The Louisiana state tree is the bald cypress, the state flower the magnolia and the state bird the eastern brown pelican. It’s the only state without counties, having 64 parishes instead. It’s lowest point is 8 feet below sea level (only California has a lower point); the highest elevation is 535 feet (only two states have a lower high point, Delaware and Florida).
10. Files all documents under “D” for “Document”.
9. Types 60 words a week.
8. Autopsies on her last 5 bosses show lethal amounts of wite-out.
7. “Flu attacks” suspiciously coincide with Yankees home day games.
6. Wears inappropriately short skirts, no matter how many times you tell him not to.
5. Will only dispense “petty cash” to Tom Petty or one of the Heartbreakers.
4. Instead of chatting by water cooler, goes 30 miles away to chat by reservoir.
3. You asked if anyone called–he said, “I’m not here to talk about the past, I’m here to talk about the present.”
2. Every night tries to fax self home.
1. Filed a sexual harassment lawsuit because you asked her to take dictation.
David Letterman
NewMexiKen had a secretary who — after I left — had many of the office files blow out of her car trunk in a mall parking lot.
“Just 72 hours after President Bush met with crown Prince Abdullah and held his hand, oil prices fell to under $50 a barrel. Boy imagine if President Bush had let him get to second base, we’d be paying like a buck-ten a gallon now.”
Jay Leno
NewMexiKen is home from California now so the changes to these pages can resume (because I enjoy figuring them out and this blog is my hobby).
The home page now has the most current 30 entries. At the bottom a link will take you to earlier entries — on subsequent pages links take you either forward or back. If you had a mind to, you could read the whole 175 pages of NewMexiKen (as of this entry) one page at a time.
The date of each entry is displayed with the other metadata at the bottom of the entry. Entries are no longer organized under a date header (except in the date archives).
I like the idea of petroglyphs as a logo for NewMexiKen — after all, what were many petroglyphs other than one person communicating with whomever came along, just like a blog — but I don’t like the photo I have for this purpose. So the banner will change.
We thank you for your support.
Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View Friday morning. That’s Bridalveil Fall on the right, El Capitan on the left, and Half Dome partially obscured in the distance.
NewMexiKen pretty much takes the week off from blogging and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were the four busiest days ever around here.
I find this troubling.
NewMexiKen is in Yosemite National Park this evening. Lovely.
Word is the bears have learned to open unlocked car doors. I figure a couple of more generations of evolution and the bears will be ordering various car remotes over the internets.
Are you tired of trying to hit the tiny maximize/restore button in the top right corner of a window? There’s an easier alternative: Double-click anywhere on the title bar. The entire title bar acts as an oversized toggle. Double-click to maximize the window; double-click again to restore the original window size.
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Hla Htay has three hungry infants to feed these days — a seven-month old baby boy and two Bengal tiger cubs.
Three times a day, the Myanmar housewife goes to the Yangon Zoo where she breastfeeds the hungry black-striped, orange-brown cubs rejected by their natural mother.
“The cubs are just like my babies,” Hla Htay told Fuji TV as one of the baby big cats suckled her breast.
Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis.
Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking cannabis, according to the researchers.
NewMexiKen hates to think of the drop in IQ that results from blogging. Or maybe I hate to think because of that drop. Hmmm!?!
DeLay has long been one of Congress’ most vocal critics of what he calls Castro’s “thugocracy,” which is why some sharp-eyed TIME readers were surprised last week to see a photo of the Majority Leader smoking one of Cuba’s best—a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, which generally costs about $25 when purchased overseas and is not available in this country. The cigar’s label clearly states that it was made in “Habana.” The photo was taken in Jerusalem on July 28, 2003, during a meeting between DeLay and the Republican Jewish Coalition at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
TIME, which has the photo.
Leader of the Union forces, eighteenth President of the United States, and memoir writer par excellence, Ulysses S. Grant was born on this date in 1822.
The Library of Congress has a worthwhile profile of the person they call a “quiet, unassuming, and keenly intelligent man.”
The White House biography is here.
Walter Lantz was born on this date in 1899. Lantz was the creator of such animated characters as Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Wally Walrus and the greatest cartoon character of them all, Woody Woodpecker.
Walter Lantz was nominated for the Academy Award 10 times. He received the Academy’s Life-Time Achievement Award in 1979.
Click on the image above to visit lantz.toonzone.net for audio and video clips and lots of other goodies.
“Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that he had prayed to God that he would not be elected. The new pope then went on to emphasize the power of prayer.”
Dennis Miller
“How disgusting is this? Here it is folks, this is the end of the world…. A restaurant in Decatur, Georgia, is now serving a double bacon cheeseburger that is served between two Krispy Kreme doughnuts. We are now officially ancient Rome.”
Jay Leno
Justice can be swift, and very funny: Hacker deletes own hard drive:
A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.The 26 year-old German claimed he was the baddest hacker in town and threatened to attack a moderator on #stopHipHop’s RC Channel because he thought he’d been thrown out.
He demanded the moderator cough up his IP address and prepare to be hacked.
So the moderator said that his IP number was 127.0.0.1 (which is IP for “self”). Then he leaned back and waited.
Finally the hacker declared success. “I can see your E: drive disappearing, he gloated. “D: is down 45 percent!” he cried, before disappearing into the ether.But he hasn’t been heard from since.
Not blogging much.
Tracker Trail tells how to make a fire from a can of Coke and a chocolate bar.
Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center paid more than $1.3 million over the last year for the services of a radiologist who said he worked an average of 20 hours a day, seven days a week, during one recent six-month stretch, records show.
NewMexiKen is visiting one of The Sweeties
and the people she lives with for a few days,
a place with redwoods in the yard.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The leading candidate for mayor of San Antonio admitted on Thursday using his twin brother as a stand-in at a civic event without telling anyone it was not him.
Julian Castro, a 30-year-old city councilman, said brother Joaquin, his identical twin, rode for him in the annual River Parade through downtown San Antonio on Monday.
Which one is the evil twin?
MakesMeRalph: New MexiKen Challenge. Some interesting choices. Ralph’s definitely a Dr. Seuss fan.
Garrett has some fine photos from the Institute of American Indian Arts Spring Pow Wow today at the Santa Fe Indian School.
One thing to read about it; quite another to see it. Gasoline prices posted today in Needles, California — $3.199.
NewMexiKen, who can open the refrigerator and not remember why, remembers the first time I ever paid a dollar for a gallon of gasoline. It was in June 1979 in Barstow, California (999 cents to be precise). The first time I ever paid more than two dollars for a gallon was in May 2003 in — you guessed it — Barstow, California ($2.299).
So, heading west today from Needles I’m thinking surely gas will be three dollars or more in Barstow and I can complete a gasoline sticker shock trifecta. As I crossed the Mojave Desert against a strong headwind, however, mileage dropped and 45 miles from Barstow the gasoline warning light came on. What to do? How many miles can I go with the light on? Thirty? Forty? Fifty?
After about 35 miles I began to panic. Running out of gas in these modern fuel-injected cars is no picnic. I give up on the Barstow triple treat (I’m thinking photos, etc.) and exit I-40 at Daggett, ten miles from my objective.
Guess what? Despite the sign, there’s no gasoline for sale in Daggett (which isn’t much of a place). After asking a kid, I follow his directions for almost as far as if I had stayed on I-40. I finally find gasoline in Daggett (at I-15, not I-40). 38 miles since the warning light came on (I had at least a gallon left).
But it was “only” $2.479.
It’s Jupiter shining brightly, followed by the moon, followed by the star Spica.
Jupiter is the third-brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus. But Venus isn’t in view right now, so there’s nothing to compete with Jupiter.
Spica is a true star — one of the brightest in the night sky, even from its distance of 260 light-years.
Look for Spica, the Moon, and Jupiter lining up atop the southeastern horizon in early evening. The Moon will move closer to Spica during the night, and appear quite close to the star at dawn tomorrow.
The moon will be full Sunday.
“Very few people know this, that the Congress can simply disenfranchise a court,” [James C.] Dobson said. “They don’t have to fire anybody or impeach them or go through that battle. All they have to do is say the 9th Circuit doesn’t exist anymore, and it’s gone.”
Evangelical Christian leaders, who have been working closely with senior Republican lawmakers to place conservative judges in the federal courts, have also been exploring ways to punish sitting jurists and even entire courts viewed as hostile to their cause.
An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation’s most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work.
The discussion took place during a Washington conference last month that included addresses by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who discussed efforts to bring a more conservative cast to the courts.
Umm, NewMexiKen does not wish to seem too cold and non-believing, but if there are people who think this is a religious apparition, I really don’t want to spend eternity with them.
Read about the Underpass Virgin at CNN.com.
A woman who said she found part of a human finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili last month has been arrested and charged with larceny in connection with the incident, authorities said on Friday. …
Wendy’s International Inc., was “thrilled that an arrest has been made,” Tom Mueller, president of the company’s North American business, said in a statement.
The larceny charge, which originated in San Jose, was related to the finger incident, but the origin of the finger was still unknown, said San Jose police department spokesman Nick Muyo.
In one of the most competitive Southeastern Conference races in memory, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina have each had 11 football players arrested or cited in recent months.
The three teams’ lineups are so evenly matched, penal pundits say, that the SEC might have to resort to the seldom-used strength-of-sentence tie-breaker.
… and handles the book meme with his usual aplomb and erudition: FunctionalAmbivalent: Taking the NewMexiKen Challenge.
Sorry, though, my yard is reserved for quail and rabbits.
but it appears NewMexiKen is doing better on the market than most of my investments. Scroll down and check out the graphs.
was born in Nogales, Arizona, on this date in 1922.
Irascible, demanding, bullying, and probably a genius, Charles Mingus cut himself a uniquely iconoclastic path through jazz in the middle of the 20th century, creating a legacy that became universally lauded only after he was no longer around to bug people. As a bassist, he knew few peers, blessed with a powerful tone and pulsating sense of rhythm, capable of elevating the instrument into the front line of a band. But had he been just a string player, few would know his name today. Rather, he was the greatest bass-playing leader/composer jazz has ever known, one who always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse, spirit, spontaneity, and ferocious expressive power of jazz.
Charles Mingus died in 1979. There’s an attractive Official Mingus Web.
is 68 today. Here’s what I posted last year.
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