Found this link at BuzzMachine.com to some before and after satellite photos of Sri Lanka.
It is amazing that this type of photos are available, to the public and on-line!
These are similar to the pictures I used to make maps while in the Air Force so many years ago.
They even caught a picture of some of the waves too.
The before and after give some notion of the size of the waves and the damage done.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Harry Colmery
So, its been a while. Christmas is over, looking forward to 2005. Starting to think about the coming year and it's potential. And the obligatory Resolutions.
But first: While I was in the shower this morning (I know, too much information, what a visual....) I was thinking about the 60 Minutes segment on the "Echo Generation". It is loosely defined as the off spring of the Baby Boom Generation. The segment asked who they are and what do they want? So, while I was in the shower my mind moved backwards to the Baby Boomers. (Note: I am a Baby Boomer, born 1951.)
An Aside: I was talking to one of my coworkers about a vacation he will be taking in February. I jokingly made sure that he would be back to work in time for my birthday. He innocently asked how old I would be. He was a little supprised when I told him I would be 54. His reply was "My DAD's 55!"
At any rate, there I was, in the shower, thinking about Echo Boomers. They have never known a world without space travel, without cable tv (or should I say MTV), without microwave ovens, without personal computers (not just computers, without PERSONAL computers), without cell phones. That led to thinking about all those things that were invented or at least productized (read "engineered for the masses") during my life time. A lot of it was done by my parents generation. The ones that fought the war (WWII), came back having saved the world for the "Good Guys" and started getting on with their lives, having familys (the Baby Boom) and going to school courtesy of the Government via the GI Bill. In the first seven years about 8 million people received benifits costing the US Government close to 15 Billion dollars. Quite an investment. Educating all those minds..... something was going to happen! In a very short time they created a much larger base of knowledge for subsequent generations to build on and expand even more. And look where we are now! Was it all for the better? Most would say yes, I think. Even if the ramafications of a lot of the technological advances haven't been worked out, or experienced. But there are the Nay Sayers, the ones who don't believe the scientists and policy makers when they say, "Trust us! What could POSSIBLY happen?" For good or bad, it has sure made our times "interesting"
Harry Colmery? He was a World War I vet, a lawyer and a member of the Americal Legion who wrote the first draft of the GI Bill, signed into law by FDR on 22 June 1944.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a veteren, served in the Air Force. I earned my college degree, finally, in 1986. It was paid for by the GI Bill.
But first: While I was in the shower this morning (I know, too much information, what a visual....) I was thinking about the 60 Minutes segment on the "Echo Generation". It is loosely defined as the off spring of the Baby Boom Generation. The segment asked who they are and what do they want? So, while I was in the shower my mind moved backwards to the Baby Boomers. (Note: I am a Baby Boomer, born 1951.)
An Aside: I was talking to one of my coworkers about a vacation he will be taking in February. I jokingly made sure that he would be back to work in time for my birthday. He innocently asked how old I would be. He was a little supprised when I told him I would be 54. His reply was "My DAD's 55!"
At any rate, there I was, in the shower, thinking about Echo Boomers. They have never known a world without space travel, without cable tv (or should I say MTV), without microwave ovens, without personal computers (not just computers, without PERSONAL computers), without cell phones. That led to thinking about all those things that were invented or at least productized (read "engineered for the masses") during my life time. A lot of it was done by my parents generation. The ones that fought the war (WWII), came back having saved the world for the "Good Guys" and started getting on with their lives, having familys (the Baby Boom) and going to school courtesy of the Government via the GI Bill. In the first seven years about 8 million people received benifits costing the US Government close to 15 Billion dollars. Quite an investment. Educating all those minds..... something was going to happen! In a very short time they created a much larger base of knowledge for subsequent generations to build on and expand even more. And look where we are now! Was it all for the better? Most would say yes, I think. Even if the ramafications of a lot of the technological advances haven't been worked out, or experienced. But there are the Nay Sayers, the ones who don't believe the scientists and policy makers when they say, "Trust us! What could POSSIBLY happen?" For good or bad, it has sure made our times "interesting"
Harry Colmery? He was a World War I vet, a lawyer and a member of the Americal Legion who wrote the first draft of the GI Bill, signed into law by FDR on 22 June 1944.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a veteren, served in the Air Force. I earned my college degree, finally, in 1986. It was paid for by the GI Bill.
Sunday, December 12, 2004
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