Got rocks?
Road signs: Rocks

Got a gun?
Iraq

Got a problem?
America's Vanishing Historic Asylums, State Hospitals, Sanitariums, County Homes, Medical Hospitals, and Other Institutions
Need a get-a-way?

Got tears?
Bombardier Profile
I just got laid-off after nearly six years with this company, the first week of Februrary I get my walking papers.

Read those numbers, will ya.

I've got about 360 shares of this worthless shit...

Got 100 people?
The Miniature Earth

Got terror?
INFO Page. . .
. . The EMERGENCY EMAIL & WIRELESS Network

Got a prez?
George Bush

Got a life?
ze's page

Got the beat?
Noises.

Can you hear it now?
The Internet.
Right.
Listening Post

Got a place to hide?
London Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground

Got six legs?

Got Karma? (Just look at that horoscope, will ya?)
Karma Central

Got two wheels?
The New American Superbike

Got Repeat Photography?
SRER Repeat Photography

Got memories?
TIME 2001 Year in Pictures

Got phone calls?
How To Get Rid of Telemarketing Calls

Download the Quicktime video!!!
TVCam on Shuttle

Got jokes?
joshmadison.com | Humor

Got death?
Necrocam

Got saftey equiptment?
Public Safety Links (Fire, Police, EMS Resources)

Got time for a chat?
HELL.COM

Got schooling?
The School District of Palm Beach County

Want small things?
the5k.org : winners

Got gadgets?
The Gadgeteer - HOME

Got cell phone?
Dialtones (A Telesymphony) - Mobile Phone Concert

Got Flash?
Nix-Glop: News

See old and new as one!
Archaeological Collage Interactive
Very cool!

Cool videos of the new Pepper Ball technology coming soon to your town and mine...
Jaycor Tactical Systems (Video Archive)
...actually, I think we're using it here in Tucson already.
Look out UofA fans, better behave when we win the next championship!

Oh Baby...
Create-A-Fart

Big Booms
ImplosionWorld.com

Oh man, gotta get those flies...
Orisinal.com - Hydrophobia

Look at this,
and straight out of Tucson to boot...
An Electronic Cop That Plays Hunches

International Top Jokes, and you know how much I hate jokes...right?
Welcome to Laugh Lab

Been a while since I checked in.
Had an attack of reformatitus, hit me about half a dozen times :-)

Look at this will ya, this guy is shooting the entire West Coast!
California Coastal Records Project

Love that SPAM ?
Then here's a game for you:
Torture a Spammer
You don't have to enter your E-mail, just go on to the game, it still works.
My favorite punishment is the scrreaming, flying monkey....

Some more Blade Runner stuff,
BladeRunner WebRing
I really loved that movie...

Hey look,
let's start all over...
City Creator

I've been creating some new Flash based slideshows from groups of my photographs.
Take a look and see how they work for you:
Our new stuff!

Anyone out there a fan of Blade Runner?
Welcome to the Off-World Radio Network

Check out the Visual Composer:
...t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m...

Two new Suzuki's?
Computer Enhanced Images of Anticipated 2003 Suzukis: SV1000 and DL650

HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things

The only domain named after the world's most commonly misheard lyric.
Thought you knew the words...

Remember seeing the lines of blood donors on TV the days following 9/11?
Bad Blood

Some of my friends have been wondering what it's like up in Cortez, Colorado where my wife and I have bought a second home.
If you want to see what the surrounding mountains look like up there, here's a little album I put together a while back:
Album: Five Peaks
Love it up there...

Need some news?
Welcome to TODAY'S FRONT PAGES

Check out the "Video Tribute" :
The September 11 Digital Archive

An excellent photo site!
Zone-Tour : Database of Urban Exploration

I wanted to remind anyone about this site.
They operate a streaming webcam (with sound) of the Orca pods that summer off the coast of N/W Washington state.
Sign up for their E-mail notification service and you'll get a notice whenever the Orca are near enough to see or hear.
It's been very busy lately, great shots of the whales breaching the surface, and many cries as the different pods interact.
Go here.

ORCA LIVE

And look at this,
six proposals for the new WTC!
LMDC, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation

Anyone ever go here?
World Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
Let me know, please...

Click on the comment link...

I got a chance to watch the construction back in the late '60s while I held my first Summer job working with my dad at Western Union down on Chambers Street.

All I remember is the sight of that giant crane lifting huge I-Beams up the sides of the towers.
It was a long time ago...I was so young...

So please, talk to me...leave a comment...even if you've never been there.

I moved out here to Arizona in '81 before I ever got a chance to go back.

And don't miss these videos!
Video Scrapbook of Davey and Goliath - Features
See post below...

Ever watch these guys when you were growing up?
Welcome to the Official Davey and Goliath Web site
They're making a comeback!

Mark Fiore's Animated Political Cartoons!

See...I told ya,
Greetings From Tucson
that new show about our good old Rotten Avocado!

Check out these '50-60s radio recordings:
Only you can prevent wildfires.
Smokey's Vault
Poor Smokey...sure has taken a beating lately, no?

Anyone out there interested in "What's New" with the Mexican Grey Wolf?
Region 2 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Hot Topics

A TV SitCom about Tucson?!?!?
Life in an Irish/Mexican home in the foothills.
This ought to be interesting.

Here's a quote from the press release:
"Though "Greetings" doesn't focus on race, the topic does come up a couple of times in the pilot. A next-door-neighbor, for instance, compliments Elizabeth on her backyard wall, saying she's heard "The Mexicans are really good at building walls." "

Ain't it the truth...considering the one they have to get over to live here in the first place...

This Old School
Thought I'd stop by this old place today. Located on South 6TH just South of town it's the center of a local debate whether or not to level the old beast. Many claim it's got too much history, others say it'll cost WAY too much to upgrade.
Can you believe it's still in use?!?...

They wouldn't dare....
....would they?
The American Experience | Race for the Superbomb | Nuclear Blast Mapper

The object, just like real life, is not to crash into things.
Fly The Copter - South Coast Diaries - Seethru Zine

What makes seeing car wrecks, car crash pictures or car accidents so pleasurable to some?
Some say the pure joy of seeing what was once a perfectly fine automobile reduced to a pile of mangled scrap metal is pleasure enough, but when you add exotic to the mixture, it makes the brew that much better!
Wrecked Exotics

The Forest Service and the timber industry readily admit our forests are in bad shape.

SHOW LOW - Some 10,000 people abandoned Show Low late Saturday as the largest fire in the nation swept through three more high-country communities.

We are in favor of the death penalty.
The Execution Tapes: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits

Nightmare are us.
Need a good nightmare?

The answers are found here:
Living Internet

Hey everybody!
We just returned from a visit to our place in Colorado.
Here are some new pics!
Southwest Colorado, Spring 2002
A couple of ghosttowns, Indian ruins...and more!

A 24 part Flash Novel:
Broken Saints
Great graphics...great sounds...

Here's a collection of international road signs:
Bartolomeo Mecánico: road-signs, water mills, Opiliones, painted ads
Neat.

I thought it was getting warmer...
Global Warming and Climate Change: Mercury Rising at OneWorldJourneys.com
...I mean, wouldn't you think a stretch of over 100 daytime highs all in a row was a sign...
...and I thought it was just Arizona.

Soundsand photos of the world at your keystrokes:
Tuning The World

How do you spend your winter?
The Snowfort Zone
I'm in Southern Arizona, and have been for over twenty years.
This reminds me of my childhood back in Upstate New York...

Phew!
120seconds.com - Bite-sized Entertainment
This ought to keep you busy for a while!

The buildings on this list were selected because they cost so much and look so awful. While we are sure that we didn't include more than a few buildings that could easily qualify for this list, we think we've done a pretty fair job of picking some real howlers.
Forbes.com: The World's Ugliest Buildings

There are sooooo many reasons why you should keep track of a womans menstrual cycle!
This little program just needs the date of the first day of blood flow and the usual number of days in the cycle, and it does the rest.
Once running, it puts a little flag icon in the system tray (the bit by the clock).
When PMT week approaches, it changes from a green flag, to a yellow flag.
And when red flag week hits, you guessed it, it goes red.
Simple.
Described as "the handiest program in the universe", you should download it now!
CAELAN - It's not a toy

San Pedro River Campaign

We need help with this one folks. I Just got this in the mail:

URGENT: YOUR CALL NEEDED TODAY TO SAVE THE SAN PEDRO
RIVER!

Representative Jim Kolbe (R) has successfully attached
a rider to the House Emergency Appropriations bill
in the Senate that will exempt the Department of Defense
(DoD) and Ft. Huachuca from responsibility for water
conservation measures under U.S. environmental law.
The continued expansion of Fort Huachuca is the single
greatest contributor to the deadly overdraft of water
from the San Pedro river, and baseflows have declined
67% since the 1940's.

The DoD acknowledges responsibility for 34,500 employees
who are dependant on groundwater pumping, thus drying
up the river by intercepting water that ordinarily
would provide the river's stream flow.

Recently, a Federal Judge ruled that the massive expansion
of Fort Huachuca is dewatering the San Pedro River
and jeopardizing the existence of endangered species.
This hard-fought judicial victory will become meaningless
if the rider is approved. The 400-plus animal and bird
species that rely upon the river, including the Huachuca
water umbel, Southwestern willow flycatcher, and thousands
of migratory birds, beavers, and many other species
will be threatened. Local efforts for meaningful river
conservation solutions without court order have proven
futile.

IF THE SENATE APPROVES THIS RIDER, THE SAN PEDRO WILL
DRY UP
The San Pedro river in some areas already has base
flows that are close to zero. There will be no recourse
to save the river if the rider passes Senate approval
and this law becomes permanent.
This decision will be made soon, so *please* call both
Senator Kyl and Senator McCain today, and ask them
NOT to support Kolbe's San Pedro river-killing rider.
A personal phone call before the decision is made is
the most effective way to stop the rider.

(Calls to Washington DC offices are most effective)
Senator Kyl: *Washington DC:(202) 224-4521*; Phoenix:(602)840-1891;
Tucson:(520)575-8633.
Senator McCain: *Washington DC:(202) 224-2235*; Phoenix:(602)952-2410;
Tucson:(520)670-6334.

BACKGROUND:
The San Pedro River is truly one of our environmental
crown jewels. It is one of the last naturally functioning
desert river ecosystems in the United States, and among
the earth's most biologically diverse and important
ecosystems. It supports 400 species of birds (nearly
half of the U.S. total), 100 species of butterflies,
83 species of mammals and 47 species of amphibians
and reptiles.

It has the highest diversity of vertebrate species
in the inland U.S. and the second highest diversity
of land-mammals in the world. It was designated the
first "globally important bird area" by the American
Bird Conservancy and one of the northern hemisphere's
eight "last great places" by The Nature Conservancy.
In 1988 Congress recognized the unparalleled value
of the San Pedro, designating 45 miles of it as the
nation's first Riparian National Conservation Area.

For more information call Dr. Robin Silver at: (602)
246-4170 or rsilver@biologicaldiversity.org, or Daniel
Patterson at: (520) 623-5252, ext.306
San Pedro River website

Visit the web address below and tell your friends about
this important issue:

Spread the word!

Director Ridley Scott reveals the truth about
Deckard,
the replicant.

Just looking around I found this too:
Friends of Kartchner Caverns State Park
There's another good Flash presentation here too!

Any of you hear about the new cave we got down here?
StarNet - Kartchner Caverns
I haven't been there yet, but from what you see in the Virtual Tour at this site, anyone who has the chance has got to go...
myself included...
it's only about 35 mile East of here...

Remember?
Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Here's a great place to grab a few quotes for your E-mail signature:
Useless Knowledge

I wish I had a pocket version to use at work:
Lost in Translation

Check out the "Sneak Preview" section:
Techno-Impressionist Museum

I'd like to spend a week or two exploring this sometime before I die.
Travel The Bozeman Trail
Take a look at the "Map Of The Corridor".

Turn up your volume,
Close your windows and doors,
Stretch your fingers,
Ready to play?
le piano graphique

Well,
Virginia Cracks Down on Motorists Who Kill Motorcyclists!
look at this...

Worlds Largest Magnifying Glass Reported Missing!!!

How about that!
Dateline NBC did a story on two lane highways last night...
Dangerous two lane highways...
Deadly two lane highways...
Dateline Front Page 5:07 PM ET Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Check out the video, it's a 12 minuter segment of the TV show!

Hey, look at this...
I just came across these pics of some of the canyons up around Page, AZ:

Slot Canyons on the AZ/UT border

Yes, definately...cool...these colors are for real...

Here's the latest
"Fire Status"
map.

Here's a good one!
The Bad Movie Review Website
There's a mpg, jpeg's and wav's for each selection.

Wanna read some really old funnies,
LILEKS (James) :: the "Funnies"
This site deserves a plug.
Don't miss the Philip Morris section!

Fire southeast of Tucson burns 1,200 acres so far

Are you ready America,
Here's what's happening in Southern Arizona.

Huachuca wildfire grows to 400 acres - ICMA-RC/VantageLink

The West is going to burn this Summer like it's never burned before.

Crews work to keep wildfire from hummingbird preserve

Have any of you ever wondered about how you could surf without being constantly bombarded by all the different advertising?
Look, I know my entire site is hosted on nothing but "FREE" websites, and my pages literally toss the advertising out at you, but do you know that you can (as I do) get rid of a good 95% or more of ad banners and boxes?
I'm serious.
Wouldn't you like to watch television without commercials?
How about surfing the net without ads?
Okay, take a look at this:

SSW Knowledge Base

If you have any questions, drop me a note and I'll let you know how I set up my system.

Rain, rain,
come my way.
Stick around,
another day.
Top Story - NASA Research Pinpoints Where Rain Comes From and Where it Goes - April 1, 2002

Senate Arctic Refuge Vote:
Senators Grouped by Home State

** Official Vote Results **

Motion to invoke cloture on Stevens Amendment on Steel Worker Pensions:
FINAL VOTE: YES: 36 NO: 64

Senate Arctic Refuge Vote - April 18, 2002

Boneland.com - An honest to goodness, teriffic waste of time...

New today,
hurry, hurry, hurry...
The new snake in town.
Get yours now...while they last...

Check this, a federal judge has declared that the massive expansion of Fort Huachuca is dewatering the San Pedro River.
San Pedro River Campaign
Good news for the San Pedro, no?

Hot?

This is what I've been saying all along ....

Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm
Stupid." That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You
wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...
oops, never mind -- didn't see your sign."

It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of
boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My neighbor
comes over and says, "Hey, you moving?" "Nope. We just pack our
stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes.
Here's a sign."

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine,
we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol
stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, y'all
catch all them fish?" "Nope. Talked 'em into giving up. Here's a
sign."

I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery
Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And
there's only one way to test it. "All right Jimmy, you got that
shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this
pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you."
"Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it.

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of
those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out,
looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go
flat?" I couldn't resist. I said, "Nope. I was driving around
and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's a
sign."

We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came
over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes.
We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down
and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, "Darn, that's hot!" See?
If he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.

I learned to drive an 18 wheeler in my younger days of
adventure. Wouldn't you know I misjudged the height of a bridge.
The truck got stuck and I couldn't get it out no matter how I
tried. I radioed in for help and eventually a local cop shows up
to take the report. He went through his basic questioning. OK,
no problem. I thought sure he was clear of needing a sign. Until
he asked, "So, is your truck stuck?" I couldn't help myself! I
looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and
said, "No I'm delivering' a bridge... here's a sign."

I stayed late at work one night and a co-worker looked at me
and said, "Are you still here?" I replied, "No. I left about 10
minutes ago.

Anybody you know need a sign today? The next time someone
says something stupid ask them where his sign is.

Okay, okay...
This should do it:
concam.net: The Night Sky Live: Catalog of Phenomena
that's all for today...

Hey...I'm back...
Snooping around at the Kitt Peak site (above) I found this:
Live at Nite!
Click on the main image (of the night sky) and you'll start the download of an animated gif of the sky moving as a result of the Earths' rotation.
Cool!

Hey lookee:
Images from Kitt Peak
Just found this, it's a live webcam from one of the surrounding "Sky Islands" we have here in So. Arizona.

A web friend of mine, a retired railroad engineer out of Springfield, Mass sent me this recently...neat little story:
A mother was working in the kitchen listening to her son playing with
his new electric train in the living room. She heard the
train stop and her son saying, "All of you sons of bitches who want off, get the hell off now,
cause this is the last stop! And all of you sons of bitches who are getting on, get your asses in the train, cause we're going down the tracks."
The horrified mother went in and told her son, "We don't use that kind of language in this house!! Now I want you to go to your room and you are to stay there for TWO HOURS. When you come out, you may play with your train, but I want you to use nice language."
Two hours later, the son came out of the bedroom and resumed playing with his train. Soon the train stopped and the mother heard her son say, "All passengers who are disembarking the train, please remember to take all of your belongings with you. We thank you For riding
with us today and hope your trip was a pleasant one. We hope you will ride with us again
soon." She hears the little boy continue, "For those of you just boarding, we ask you to stow all of your hand luggage under your seat. Remember, there is no smoking on the train. We hope you will have a pleasant and relaxing journey with us today."
As the mother began to smile, the child added, "For those of you who are pissed off about the TWO HOUR delay, please see the bitch in the kitchen."

Just got this in the mail, does it ring any bells?

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on
a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to
the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the
stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while,
another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys
are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb
the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put away the cold
water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.The new
monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and
horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and
attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new
one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked, and the previous
newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a
third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth,and then the fifth. Every
time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.Most of the monkeys
that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the
stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest
monkey.After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining
monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever
again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as
they know, that's the way it's always been done around here.

And that, my dear friends, is how company policy is born.

I have a heavy wrist.
I twisted the throttle to the stop early this morning around 2am while leaving my night shift at the jet factory, Learjet, here in Tucson.
Within a quarter mile from the driveway I had it up to 77mph.
Damn, wouldn't you know it...
there they were, in the bushes, about 15 ft. off the highway...a couple of reservation police...
Lights...action...here they come...

Him: "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Me: "Yeah."
Him: "How fast?"
Me: "65?" (read:yeah, right..Bill)
Him: "Got you clocked and locked at 77. License and registration? Okay, sit tight..."

He came back after two minutes.

Him: "You know this is a criminal offense, you were WAY over...?"
Me: "Yeah, you got me...fair and square..."
Him: "I'm going to do you a favor...a big favor." As he handed me my papers.
Me: "What do you mean...what am I getting?
Him: "Nothing...just remember...this is my shift...and my beat...just take it easy out here, okay?"
Me: "You're kidding...(long pause)...THANKS!"
Him: "Get outta here."

The Tohono O'odham Police have got to be a great group of officers!


Phew!
Etiquette on the Reservation

Feel like a
SHORT
poem or two?

Bored, took the day off...waiting for an auto glass tech to show up to replace the drivers window in our pick-up.
Some lousy low-life thought he'd find something worth stealing last night.
Suck head.
Hope he's happy with the K-9 Pooper Scoopers, some sun glasses, a handfull of home recorded cassettes, the Ford F-150 owners manual, and two of my baseball caps that he made off with after shattering the window.
What fools we have today, no?
Looks like he just scooped up everything he could get his hands on.
Nice haul, Ace.

Anyway, just playing around here:

A JPG to AVI to SWF test.
Does it work for you?

Just got done making a few changes to the log here and thought I'd throw in a couple of links to some photos I took last Summer during a visit to Southeast Utah.
These link to a couple of collections of petroglyph photos:
Sand Canyon, SE Utah Canyonlands
Newspaper Rock, SE Utah Canyonlands
Some of these are really ancient, enjoy!

Bombardier, the world's third-largest manufacturer of civil aircraft, has entered a multi-faceted sponsorship agreement with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League that includes naming rights to the Speedway's landmark Pagoda control tower, Speedway officials announced March 12.


Brickyard.com

Hey baby, wanna ride in my
Cosmopolis XXI ?

9/11 Video Collection:
Special Collections
Check other sections of this new site!

Don't miss the "Video Tribute" located about half way down the page:
The September 11 Digital Archive

You know I watched them build the World Trade Center back in the late '60's.
I had my first REAL job as a file clerk working with my dad at Western Union down on Chambers Street.
I remember going over at lunch-time to watch the giant cranes lift beams and girders up the sides of those beasts...
The September 11 Digital Archive

Wish I could get away and go back for a visit...

Here's the movie:
Wanted: Phillip Morris - Dead Or Alive

Here're a few worldwide social comments for ya:
Tobacco Ad Gallery
It's almost overwhelming when you see what's happening all over the rest of the world.
It seems some of these countries are just inviting their citizens to get hooked...

Look at this:
AdventureTV.com - The Natural World of Adventure through Streaming Video
an excelent collection of travel videos.

Hi!
Went to a Diamondbacks game here in Tucson last week.
Check it out:
Welcome to the game!

Okay, here's why I called you all here.
I'd like you to help me test the "COMMENTS" function by clicking on the comments text (which is a hyper-link to another server) and dropping a line in there.
This service is called "YACCS" provided by "Rate Your Music".
Please feel free to leave your E-mail address, this server has an anti-spam filter it uses to prevent spam-bots from harvesting addresses.

Hey, thanks, stop by occasionally...I'll be using this blog to announce any new pages I create!
See ya,
-Bill

Here's my latest:
Signal Hill at the Saguaro National Monument
Check out the slide show link, it's a new thing I'm using lately called "Flash".
Should work for just about everyone, a streaming technology.

Here's where I got this new blog:
BlogSkins
Take a look!

Facts:
The New Suzuki GSX-R/4 Concept Car Details
Pics:
The New Suzuki GSX-R/4 Concept Car Photos

See this yet?
Welcome to Hypercar, Inc.