SmokeStack Gone.

Well -- it was a crazy minute, but the Smoke Stack at the Mississippi River at the St. Paul High Bridge came falling down. It was described in the article as an implosion, but the way the video is shown, it seems very likely that they meant for it to tumble like a felled tree, as it did. The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey....

28 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Remembering the Silent Majority

Concerning my previous blog post: Why Most Politics Is Radical I had been thinking for the last several months about Nixon's "Silent Majority" [1] [2]. The silent majority is usually described as the "mostly conservative" bulk of people who are not easily swayed by politics. Some discussions have suggested that this majority is simply gone, that it doesn't exist. However, I take it that - even while Nixon called them a "...

27 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

SmokeStack Implosion

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/21868579.html I am planning on going to the office, and filming this from the tallest building in St. Paul. I Think it will be really cool to see. It's early though. I've never seen anything like this in person though. I worry about "foggers and water cannons" obstructing my view though.

27 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Summertime

Well Summertime is here. Click to play (doesn't work in some RSS viewers): boomp3.com I went to a great summer solstice party last night, one of those parties where I only knew one person, but absolutely everybody was cool and easy to talk to. Had a wonderful time, and I got home really late.

22 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink