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Statue detail

Michael Several lead a group of us on a tour of some of the public art in downtown LA. Click here to see a selection of pictures on Flickr.

The pool by the Library

One of the new buildings

It was a wonderful way to spend a few hours. We commented that this is the kind of tour we take when we travel to other cities but we had never seen LA this way before. Thanks to Michael for making this possible. Click here to see the good photos

What better way to celebrate the New Year than to look at some pictures of Pighenge from last years event.

Happy Lunar New Year:

Pig love

Pig acrobats

Pigs and Hengers

Happy New Year

Nurit and I saw Amazing Grace on Friday night. I was very moved by the story because of my work for the right to migrate. The struggle against slavery was fought initially by a few Quakers. William Wilberforce, the star of this movie, was one of the first politicians to take up the cause.

This is what Nurit called a “talking movie”. Its subject is thought provoking, the characters and acting are captivating and it is absolutely worth seeing.

“We are often angriest with others when really we are angry with ourselves.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Author of Life at the Bottom 

Quote from National Review article 3/07

The Codger Divers had a great trip to Cozumel, QR Mexico last week.  We stayed at the Iberostar Resort on an all inclusive package and it was excellent.

We dove with Dive With Martin and it was near perfect.  Roberto was our dive master and Jorge was the boat captain.

Nobody drowned and we learned to drift dive.

We saw some large sharks 

Click here to see a run of pictures on Flickr 

This one is for gardeners who have a little arthritis in there hands. When you are pruning your hands start to hurt and you just don’t have the strength to cut through the larger branches like you used to.

Prune Assist

This is a marriage of that wonderful battery/electric toothbrush technology with pruning shears. Someone else will have to figure out if the motion should be vibrating, squeezing or chopping.  But it is a sure thing that a little electromechanical assist will make it a lot easier to cut branches.  The person that brings this product to market will make a lot of money.

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Gary Trudeau has done it again. His strip from yesterday explains in six boxes why Iraq is such a mess. You can still read it on Slate:

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20070218

I`m spending this week diving with the Codger Divers in Cozumel. The Hotel Iberostar is excellent but the internet connections are not good, so I`m not able to read email. It is a big system shock. The diving is very good. We have been going out with Dive with Martin and seeing excellent stuff every day. Nobody has drowned and Joel got certified.

Life is good.

These are some dogs we saw in Tijuana on Tuesday:

A Mexican Brown Dog who looks just like my dog Missy.

A pack of Chihuahuas living on a roof.

A white fluffy dog on a rare leash.

You can tell a lot about a country by how they treat their dogs. Mexican dogs have a lot more freedom than American dogs but in general they have a much harder and shorter life.

To see more about the Tijuana Expedition click here or Here