Regardless of the fact that nobody’s quite sure where the Aquarama/Marine Star is headed, it is still on the move. Check out the user photos at boatnerd.com to see it passing through the Brockville Narrows of the St. Lawrence River today around noon, and past Morrisburg, NY just after 4pm.
Argh. Ok, I wasn’t going to do it, but Mike seems insistent on passing this little piece of trash around the blogosphere. Here’s a lawyer who thinks that the wire, not the people who create the contents that flow through it, have free speech rights. Even if neutrality mandates made good sense, they should not…
I’m still playing with the site and the new WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme. Though the help of the excellent Fourteen Extended plugin, all posts are showing in reverse chronological order on the home page now. The featured posts at the top are not necessarily the three most recent anymore. I’ve also changed the homepage to…
Below is a letter that the Anti-Flipping Task Force sent to eBay: (from Buffalo Issue Alerts) April 13, 2006 Michelle Mallory Peacock Deputy Director, State Governmental Regulations eBay, Inc. 2145 Hamilton Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 Dear Ms. Peacock: We appreciate that eBay is taking our concerns seriously, as stated in your letter dated February…
Revolutionary technology comes around only once in a great while. I’m not sure I would quite classify Microsoft Surface as revolutionary, but at a minimum it’s the biggest leap forward in computer-human interface design in a long time. As I sit here massaging my sore wrist, my mind says that anything that gets us a…
Homeowners – notice how no project ever goes as smoothly as you intend it to? The previous owner of our house built a deck on the back. Then he put a hot tub on the deck. Then he built a sunroom over the hot tub, which covered about 3/4 of the deck, making it just…
iI have lived in Muskegon MI. ALL MY LIFE, I REMEMBER THE AQUARAMA AS A VERY BIG MYSTERY. SHE WAS “HUGE” COMPARED TO THE MILWAUKEE CLIPPER WHICH WAS PARKED JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MART DOCK FROM HER. THROUGH THE YEARS OF JUST GOING OUT ON THE LAND POINT WERE SHE SAT AND JUST STARING AT HER, I DREAMED OF WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO TAKE HER OUT FOR A RIDE. IN 1988, THE BEACH BOYS CAME TO MUSKEGON TO PLAY, AND THEY PERFORMED RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE AQUARAMA’S DOCKING SITE. I’LL NEVER FORGET BRIAN WILSON TURNING AROUND AND POINTING TO HER AND SAYING “WHAT A COOL SHIP, LET’S TAKE HERE OUT FOR A RIDE.” A FEW FACTS I KNOW ARE THAT SHE WAS A LIBERTY SHIP AND ONLY MADE TWO TRIPS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BEFORE THE WAR ENDED. THE TORE ALL THE UPPER WORKS OFF HER AND THEN TOWED HER UP THE MISSISIPPI TO MUSKEGON, MI. WHILE BEING TOWED INTO MUSKEGON LAKE, SHE DRIFTED NORTH INTHE LAKE AND BECAME VERY STUCK. THE TUGS COULD NOT GET HER OF THE BOTTOM, SO THEY FIRED UP HER ENGINES A POW SHE WAS FREE. TOWED TO THE FRONT OF THE MART DOCK. THE MCGEE FAMILY STARTED TO BUILD HER TO HER PRESENT STATE AT A COST OF OVER 8 MILLION DOLLARS. MUSKEGON COMPANYS DOING ALL MOST ALL OF THE WORK. FITZPATRICK ELECTRIC, VERSITILE FAB.ETC… SHE ONLY MADE 3 OR 4 TRIPS OUT OF MUSKEGON BEFORE SHE LEFT BUT THOUSANDS OFF MUSKEGONITES RODE HER. ON ONE OF THE TRIPS HER HUGE PROPPELLER RIPPED THE SIDE OF THE DOCK UP PRETTY BAD. “THE DOCK AND THE PROPELLER MARKS ARE STILL THERE 1-15-2008. BEFORE SHE LEFT MUSKEGON IN THE SUMMER OF 1988, THEY OPENED HER UP FOR TOURS. UNBELEIVABLE. MANY AREAS WERE ROPED OF “DO NOT ENTER” BUT ME BEING A YOUNG 28 YEAR OLD, I HAD TO SHE IT ALL. THE CAPTIANS QUARTERS WAS LARGER THAN MY BIG BEDROOM, WE OPENED UP THE DOORS TO THE WINGS ON THE BRIDGE AND CAUTIOUSLY WALKED OUT AAAAAHHHH!!!! 9 STORTY UP GULP! PS. WE WERE TOLD AS KIDS THAT THEY WERE BIG GUNS! ANYWAY, LOOKING DOWN FROM THE UPPER DANCE FLOOR TO THE LARGE DANCE FLOOR BELOW, YOU COULD JUST DREAM WHAT A FANTASTIC TIME A COUPLE COULD HAVE DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY AND CRUISING ALONG THE COASTLINES OF THE GREAT LAKES. IF ONLY I WOULD OF HAD THE MONEY. GOOD BYE PRETTY GIRL!!!!!!