Thursday, October 04, 2007
'Couple links
Working from home for a bit this morning. I am sitting here wondering, whatever possessed me to schedule a visit to the dentist two hours before a campaign forum? Ah well. I think a lot of Dr. Swanson, and it's a bonus that he is only a few homes away from me there across from CP High School.
I've been meaning to share a couple of links that don't really fall into a category except they both mention this column, er, I mean, blog.
Here's an item from the tech writer for The News Tribune. You will see I posted something under it, and yes, in retrospect, it was probably not the smartest thing I ever did to tell The News Tribune that we really also need a weekly here in town. But most people at least in the newspaper industry would understand that there is a place and an important role for both a daily paper and a weekly.
And speaking of posting on a blog ...
Meanwhile, via the Internet, I found a long-lost reader from my days writing at the daily paper in Olympia. He urged me to allow comments on my blog, and, to be fair, it's worth trying. That's why you see that you can now comment on this and other recent postings via a form which I will then moderate for any spam or oddness. Anyway, here is a blog from Olympia that mentions our blog http://olywa.blogspot.com/2007/09/walter-neary-good-blog-should-allow.html and then http://olywa.blogspot.com/2007/10/walter-neary-is-still-totally-cool.html
In case you are wondering, he is referring to a web page that a couple of us at the paper worked on in our spare time. The page was about the Capitol Lake monster who haunted the depths of the lake. Of course, people in Thurston County and a few others know Capitol Lake is about six inches deep. But we had a lot of fun with the web page, and I was astonished someone remembered it.
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I've been meaning to share a couple of links that don't really fall into a category except they both mention this column, er, I mean, blog.
Here's an item from the tech writer for The News Tribune. You will see I posted something under it, and yes, in retrospect, it was probably not the smartest thing I ever did to tell The News Tribune that we really also need a weekly here in town. But most people at least in the newspaper industry would understand that there is a place and an important role for both a daily paper and a weekly.
And speaking of posting on a blog ...
Meanwhile, via the Internet, I found a long-lost reader from my days writing at the daily paper in Olympia. He urged me to allow comments on my blog, and, to be fair, it's worth trying. That's why you see that you can now comment on this and other recent postings via a form which I will then moderate for any spam or oddness. Anyway, here is a blog from Olympia that mentions our blog http://olywa.blogspot.com/2007/09/walter-neary-good-blog-should-allow.html and then http://olywa.blogspot.com/2007/10/walter-neary-is-still-totally-cool.html
In case you are wondering, he is referring to a web page that a couple of us at the paper worked on in our spare time. The page was about the Capitol Lake monster who haunted the depths of the lake. Of course, people in Thurston County and a few others know Capitol Lake is about six inches deep. But we had a lot of fun with the web page, and I was astonished someone remembered it.
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Actually, I was hoping you could resurrect some of the old Cappy legend. I looked around for the old Cappy website, and it seems to have vanished.
Now,there is a lot of talk down here about a caiman invasion of the Lake, and it would be great if Cappy could pick off a few of them.
Thanks again for adding comments.
Actually, I was hoping you could resurrect some of the old Cappy legend. I looked around for the old Cappy website, and it seems to have vanished.
Now,there is a lot of talk down here about a caiman invasion of the Lake, and it would be great if Cappy could pick off a few of them.
Thanks again for adding comments.
When I decided to leave AOL, I had changed jobs and locations, and I totally forgot that the Cappy page contents were on their servers. If I had been thinking, I would have tried to save at least some of the stuff. It was a fun little project.
The only parts I actually remember include the photo of something surfacing from the depths of the lake, though the more cynical readers thought the monster looked an awful lot like a blurry key from a 1987 Toyota Corolla. And then we had some folklore from the 19th century about how this beast just happened to pick off the settlers who treated Native Americans badly.
Anything creative has to wait until after my campaign - one month to go - but I'll give it some thought. It's funny, because about a week before your post I had actually thought of creating a page about a lake monster in Lake Steilacoom in Lakewood. Like Capitol Lake, Lake Steilacoom looks deep, but is shallow. I thought the monster might be good for tourism.
If I can find the time for the project, I'll consider suggesting that this monster is a relative of Cappy's and perhaps they visit through an underground passage. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. I understand that in Ken Burns' latest series about the war, they said that Fort Lewis is in Seattle. So these communities that we all think are far apart must not be that far apart at all.
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The only parts I actually remember include the photo of something surfacing from the depths of the lake, though the more cynical readers thought the monster looked an awful lot like a blurry key from a 1987 Toyota Corolla. And then we had some folklore from the 19th century about how this beast just happened to pick off the settlers who treated Native Americans badly.
Anything creative has to wait until after my campaign - one month to go - but I'll give it some thought. It's funny, because about a week before your post I had actually thought of creating a page about a lake monster in Lake Steilacoom in Lakewood. Like Capitol Lake, Lake Steilacoom looks deep, but is shallow. I thought the monster might be good for tourism.
If I can find the time for the project, I'll consider suggesting that this monster is a relative of Cappy's and perhaps they visit through an underground passage. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. I understand that in Ken Burns' latest series about the war, they said that Fort Lewis is in Seattle. So these communities that we all think are far apart must not be that far apart at all.
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