Friday Glow Blogging: Wernerite
This nicely cut piece of Wernerite is from Canada. It’s about 3 inches long and glows a very bright yellow under long-wave UV light.
Year: 2005
Lindsborg Forums at the Riverside Cafe
In the spirit of utilizing modern online collaboration tools to strengthen and extend our conversations, I’ve setup an online forum where folks can chat about Lindsborg and topics of interest to residents, visitors and friends of Lindsborg. The forum is sort of a modern version of “letters to the editor”, but it’s more than that. … Read more
Friday Glow Blogging: Novacekite
This brilliant green novacekite is from Mexico. It’s one of the most brilliant specimens we own, and it fluoresces when exposed to shortwave ultraviolet lighting.
John C. Magnuson: Candidate for Mayor of Lindsborg
On Friday January 21, 2005, John C. Magnuson, CPA filed by petition for the office of mayor of Lindsborg, KS. Mr. Magnuson was born in Lindsborg and was raised on a farm south of Lindsborg. He graduated from Lindsborg High School, attended Bethany College and graduated from Washburn University with a BBA with emphasis in … Read more
Magnuson Campaign Issues
In addition to the number of people who have contacted him there are four basic issues that John Magunson felt needed to be addressed: First being the mayor’s cavalier attitude toward the 1,034 signers of the streetscape petition has been appalling. The mayor has publicly impugned, denigrated and belittled the opponents to his beloved streetscape. … Read more
Man’s Best Friend
If you own or love dogs, you’ll probably want to have a tissue or two handy when you read this sad story of a good dog gone bad. What an obvious, yet heart-wrenching decision they had to make.
Backyard Cardinal
One of the pleasures of living in the midwest is sharing our backyard with a pair of cardinals. Virtually unknown in California, they are fairly common here. Cardinals are very shy birds, but I think I’ll be able to get some decent photos using the technique illustrated in the photo below. Known as afocal photography, … Read more
Friday Glow Blogging: Creamy Fluorite
This week’s glowblog entry is a creamy brown piece of fluorite from Ohio. Activated by long-wave ultraviolet light, this piece stands in contrast to the more brightly colored blue fluorite, such as what may be found in England. It’s also interesting in that Ohio and Kentucky do produce large amounts of fluorite, in the form … Read more
No More Pi
This site has been upgraded from MovableType version 3.14 to 3.15. The announcement of this upgrade mentioned that it was somewhat urgent for sites to upgrade quickly to remove a fairly big security hole. Imagine my surprise when I could not find any instructions for upgrading from the prior version to the current version. The … Read more
Occasional Weather Report
No one’s going to be surprised in July when it’s (much) hotter here in Kansas than out in California. On the other hand, no one’s complaining that it’s 64 degrees in Lindsborg at sunset, while out west, 2 hours earlier in the day, it’s only 58 degrees in Palo Alto. Also, thinking about our weather … Read more