http://ignoregon.com/rss/gold hill Aggregated Blog Posts From Gold Hill Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:04:38 +0000 en http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/thats-not-fair.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/thats-not-fair.html Sun, 5 Sep 2010 12:27:00 +0000 A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 16 miles from Port-au-Prince, a city of 700,000 in Haiti, and 230,000 people die. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes 13 miles from Christchurch, a city of 400,000 in New Zealand, and no one gets killed. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/turtle-island-plays-hendrix.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/turtle-island-plays-hendrix.html Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:56:00 +0000 Review in The Wall Street Journal. Get the CD (or MP3) at Amazon. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/you-made-me-play-you.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/you-made-me-play-you.html Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:22:00 +0000 Eric Felten in The Wall Street Journal." A federal judge in Hawaii ruled last month that a man claiming to be addicted to a videogame can sue the game's maker for gross negligence in not warning him he could become a joystick junkie. Craig Smallwood alleges in his lawsuit that, as a result of playing the online game "Lineage II," he has "suffered extreme and serious emotional distress and depression, and has been unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up,... http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/sibling-rivalry.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/sibling-rivalry.html Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:08:00 +0000 On our lawn about ten minutes ago. They weren't going at it very hard; just rattling their racks. It's 90 in the shade and they were panting like dogs. After a minute or two they gave up and headed down to the river. There's a nice cool bar down there where they can have a drink and a swim. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/nugget-butte-summit.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/09/nugget-butte-summit.html Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:47:00 +0000 I've been invited to climb Mt. McLoughlin again, and so, since returning from the campout, I've been training. Today I walked out the door promptly at 5:00 and reached the summit of Nugget Butte, that is at 6:30. The old radio beacon tower is still hanging in there and so, apparently, are my legs. I wasn't even sore. Got to remember, though: "Mt. McLoughlin = 3 Nugget Butte" http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/joe-mama.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/joe-mama.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:51:00 +0000 Alaska Dispatch: "At 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski ended her bid for the GOP nomination to the seat she has held since her father passed it on to her eight years ago."Can somebody tell me what the hell just happened? http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/for-my-liberal-friends.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/for-my-liberal-friends.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:07:00 +0000 Why do you even try? http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/brrr.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/brrr.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:41:00 +0000 This is August? Leslie finally broke down about ten o'clock and turned on that old gas fired scorched air monster in the basement with the sheet metal dustwork going every which way. I smelled it before I heard it. But I can't really blame her. It was cold and drizzly outside, and even colder inside. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/szechuan-planked-salmon.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/szechuan-planked-salmon.html Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:47:00 +0000 At the campout last weekend I planked a few salmon and seasoned them with three different rubs. One mesquite, one Italian, and one I call Szechuan. It has a secret ingredient. Szechuan peppercorns or huajiao are small, reddish brown peppercorns with a flowerlike husk. Dry roasted and ground, it has a pungent, aromatic flavor unlike anything you've ever tasted, and produces a numbing sensation on your tongue. Buy it in your local Asian food store; you won't find it any supermarket. "Szechuan... http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/as-mother.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/as-mother.html Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:22:00 +0000 Sarah Palin spoke to 300,000 people in Washington today. "Now, I've been asked to speak today, not as a politician. No, as something more something much more. I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier, and I am proud of that distinction. You know, say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet, and you can't take that away from me. I'm proud of that distinction, but it is not one that I had imagined because no woman gives birth thinking that she will hand over her child... http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/i-like-guns.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/i-like-guns.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:10:00 +0000 Thanks to the Mind Numbed Robot. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/alaskan-tea-party.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/alaskan-tea-party.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:48:00 +0000 In tomorrow's Wall Street Journal. The money quote: "Though heavily outspent, Mr. Miller was helped by former Governor Sarah Palin's endorsement and especially by Ms. Murkowski's failure to understand the anti-Washington mood. When he asked Senator Murkowski in a debate which part of the Constitution permitted Roe v. Wade and bank bailouts, she responded that the nation might suffer if the government only funded things explicitly authorized by the Constitution. Bad answer. "It's too early to... http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/kid-comm.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/kid-comm.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:34:00 +0000 Leslie stewed a savory pot of home made chili for dinner, with fresh chopped onion and grated cheese. "Dinner!" she called up the stairs. No answer. She pressed the button on the intercom. "Dinner!" No answer. "Should I text them?" http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/72-hour-expert.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/72-hour-expert.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:06:00 +0000 "If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter... What do you want to know about Afghanistan, past, present, or future? Ask me anything. "P.J. O'Rourke. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/original-nine.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/08/original-nine.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:06:00 +0000 At the Eighteenth Annual Durand Family Campout. The median age of the siblings this year reached the half-century mark, and of the three dozen shots I took this one was mercifully soft-focus, and nobody had a particularly goofy look, so this is the best I could do, standing in front of the camera. Standing: Becky, Randy, Barb, Jim, Julie, Gordon, Nancy, Greg, and Susan; Sitting: Dad and Mom.