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I finished the MDI marathon. ‘Nuff said. It hurt, but it’s done.

Today we are off to go run the Mount Desert Island Marathon; 26.2 miles of Maine coastline in the fall. Wish us luck!

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I may have spoken too soon. Our CD player is apparently not dead after all.

It has been a busy and stressful few months here in the Bowie/Ruhsam household. Jennifer was actively seeking employment; I was in the middle of a crisis-of-manageable-proportions at work; Dragon*Con was nigh; and we had to deal with the wrecking and replacement of one of our vehicles. Plus all the myriad things that tend to …

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Morally, I am in favor of the death penalty; procedurally, I am against it, and when it comes to questions of life and death, I think we should err on the side of caution. Troy Davis was executed last night here in Georgia. Was he innocent? Who knows? But that seems to have been the …

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I hope and hope and hope that this isn’t real. ((check out rationalwiki for a definition of Poe’s Law and you’ll understand my reference. Perhaps this should be now “Bay’s Law” when it’s related to movies?)) I’m afraid it is, though. What’s next, “Snakes on a Glacier IN SPACE”?

I found a few other things of interest in my ‘tubes travels: A map showing the locations of major structures and levees The USACE Website for the New Orleans District A CNN story about a town square in the middle of the Atchafalaya floodway

I’ve learned a lot about the control of flooding along the Mississippi in the last few weeks. From the dynamiting of the levee by Cairo, IL to spare the city (and the purpose of that) to the long term US Army Corps of Engineering leases along the various floodways of the Atchafalaya River, to the …

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Today I walked two portions of the Atlanta Beltline with the ITE Young Members committee.  We saw some interesting stuff.  Here’s a sample: