Project Lanai

After years of talking about a patio extension, I woke up this morning determined that today was going to be the day (besides, I’m procrastinating about other stuff). So after relaxing in the sun this morning, while I did my yoga-like activities, I built up the momentum to get things started.

Did I mention that it was meant to be cloudy and a little rainy? Well when I started (as Phase 1 pictures were taken) it was sprinkling a little - yeah, a sun shower. But that quickly stopped. By the time I got to pulling up the sod, I was saturated and starting to thinking just oatmeal wasn’t going to sustain me.

I’ve stopped for the day, and will continue working on this tomorrow and over the weekend (I’m hopeful I’ll have an extra pair of hands to assist on Saturday and Sunday).

Click on the image above to see other pictures relating to this project.

Well I will say that when I checked my BB this AM after waking up and saw that the AG had resigned, I was kind of surprised. I guess that will teach Jon Stewart for taking a break (remember, Rumsfeld resigned while JS was break last time as well).

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Towleroad reported that Community Marketing, Inc. have released a report detailing the results of an online survey of lesbian and gay adults. CMI reported that, “as an incentive, respondents were offered a chance to win one of four airline vouchers valid for a roundtrip flight in North America.” They conclude by stating that, “this survey comprehensively and effectively represents a broad spectrum of LGBT consumers in all parts of the USA.”

I think the survey has some good information in it (I’m still reviewing what is available online), but to say that it is a comprehensive survey of LGBT consumers is a little misleading. First, when you visit their site, we are told that “some of the U.S. respondents are bisexual, transgender or straight, and are not included in these indices, or in the sample key findings below.” We also have to highlight the word “online” which is where this survey took place. This precludes any person from participating in this survey who doesn’t have a computer, or who doesn’t subscribe (or have access) to the publications where this survey was promoted.

If it was a comprehensive survey it would include a random sampling of all the LGBT community. The issue is that this kind of data is not available, so we have to resort to surveys where self-identifying individuals who have the capabilities of responding to a survey actually participate.

Like I said, the data that has been obtained is pretty good, but it is not the type of survey that CMI claim it is to be. Who knew I’d learn something from college

A few weeks back I found a link on Paul English’s blog to a project that has mapped the FAA flight system, and presents this in a visual format. It tracks planes in the air for one day.

My favorite is this one:

Amazing.