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Andrea and Bill’s Wedding June 11,1983

bill — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:34:23 +0000

Andrea and Bill’s Wedding June 11,1983, originally uploaded by billhuber.

Twenty seven years ago we got married. It’s been a wild ride but I am glad I took it.

The sun through the trees on a country road 001, originally uploaded by billhuber....
First Lilies of Spring IMG00012-20100605-0909.jpg, originally uploaded by billhuber. I took this along the...
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First Lilies of Spring

bill — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:57:21 +0000

IMG00012-20100605-0909.jpg, originally uploaded by billhuber.

I took this along the side of the road yesterday.

The sun through the trees on a country road 001, originally uploaded by billhuber....
Andrea and Bill’s Wedding June 11,1983 Andrea and Bill’s Wedding June 11,1983, originally uploaded by billhuber....
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Things that make me go hmm… If deep-sea ice crystals are stopping the flow of oil, what’s the problem?

bill — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:11:32 +0000

As an engineer who lived in Houston for eighteen years I am fascinated with the engineering problem BP is facing. Its not my field but I guess that the pressure from the well and the buoyancy of the oil is enough to float the 100 ton structure. They probably are concerned with the riser integrity, too. If they stop one leak the pressure might cause a leak to open elsewhere on the riser.

It bothers me that they did not make the hole at the top of the structure big enough with a reducer they could slide over. It is interesting that the riser pipe has not clogged up yet.

As a farmer who is intimately familiar with frozen pipes, I can see why they are trying to jump start the flow. Once you get it flowing, friction should keep it from clogging but the calculations are probably pretty dicey when you are under 5000 feet of water. I suppose they tried getting one of those remote operated vehicles to stick its arm down the hole and keep the hole clean till the flow gets started. They must be pretty close to the right size opening on the structure.

AP – A novel but risky attempt to use a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box to cover a deepwater oil well gushing toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico was aborted Saturday after ice crystals encased it, an ominous development as thick blobs of tar began washing up on Alabama’s white sand beaches.

Deep-sea ice crystals stymie Gulf oil leak fix (AP)
Sun, 09 May 2010 02:02:44 GMT

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Hey, Congress, Fix This Now!

bill — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:12:13 +0000

Hey, Congress, Fix This Now!

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Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees? – Well Blog – NYTimes.com

bill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:12:56 +0000

A nicely written article that encourages me to continue running.

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Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees? – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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The sun through the trees on a country road

bill — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:33:06 +0000

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My new smoker

bill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:51:19 +0000

A friend at work mentioned that he was looking at a propane powered smoker being sold at Walmart. He thought it was a good deal, $108, since the smoker had such good reviews. I took a look at it and agreed. So I bought it. My first test was pulled pork using an America’s Test Kitchen recipe. Yup, this makes barbecuing much easier. No reloading the charcoal after a couple of hours with this bad boy. I think I will smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving.

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Experiments with HI-ISO Photography

bill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:47:44 +0000

On the day before Labor Day my wife and I went down to the Don Pablos restaurant in Covington to eat, drink, and watch the fireworks. I was not interested in the drinking part so I tried some night time photos using the HI-ISO setting. These are the photos I found most interesting.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

bill — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:04:40 +0000

I was actually amused by the whole "You Lie" affair. Like most Americans I was watching "So you Think You Can Dance!" at the time of the speech. When I heard about the interruption I thought the President had said something no one expected like, "No public option". I immediately envisioned the Democratic legislators rising and shouting in anger, "Bush-Hitler!" Oops! My bad! My bad! When I heard that an obscure Republican congressman yelled, "You lie!", I was disappointed. Republicans are notoriously bad at theatrics. Joe should have at least thrown a shoe at the President. Considering the President’s basketball skills I have no doubt he would have avoided the shoe and could then proceed to taunt his opponent with a victory dance. In a moment of political unity both legislators from both parties would then rise and start jiving to "You Bad! You Bad!" Now that’s entertainment!

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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A Sense of Military Events, Past and Future

bill — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:50:25 +0000

On Thursday at an end of the year award ceremony my son accepted his ROTC scholarship. His award was sandwiched between awards for admirable accomplishments in athletic and scholastics. Yet in a touching display the audience rose and clapped. Even though I know that they rose and clapped in previous years for students who accepted military appointments, the response by the parents, students, and faculty was special to me.

So as my mind wanders off to ponder my son’s future, I am caught by the irony of my situation. Two days ago my son figuratively embarked on his military career and next Tuesday I will speak at my father’s funeral at Arlington Cemetery. For the next couple of days I will reminisce about my father and in particular his military career. I will undoubtedly intertwine my father’s military career, my choice not to pursue a military career, and my son’s prospective career. As a West Point graduate my father and my mother were part of a military community for their entire life. Their good times out weighed the bad times. I can see a time in the future that my son’s military will end and I am hopeful he will leave the military because the pastures greener on the outside. There is much to like about the military but I will be especially grateful if my son and the military fully embrace the century-old ethic spoken of below. In the 1970s I decided against pursuing a military career. I have a different opinion now.

In the 1970s the US Army assessed the damage done to the officer corps by the Vietnam War. It wasn’t pretty. Careerism had largely displaced professionalism. Col. Dandrige Malone, one of the principal assessors, wrote that the Army’s historic code, "Duty, honor, country," had been pretty much replaced by "Me, my [rear] and my career."
The Army’s centuries-old ethic, not to lie, cheat or steal, not to tolerate anyone who does, had come to be honored only in the breach.

Sense of Events: Military

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