Monthly Archives: May, 2007
Governor Sarah Palin and the Vikings and Valkyries
During the pageant for the 2007 Little Norway Festival in Petersburg, Alaska, Alaska’s Governor – Sarah Palin addressed the crowd. She was welcomed with a rowdy greeting from the Vikings and donned some fur on loan from Caryn Flint. Petersburg was founded by Norwegians and every year the town celebrates the Norse heritage with festivities …
The Viking Mobile
The Vikings and Valkyries have this bus that they navigate from place to place throughout the Little Norway Festival. You must have a hepatitis shot to board it.
Norwegian flag made out of Lego
I offered to do the window displays for Lux Boutique before the Little Norway Festival. Cena wanted to showcase some of the men’s shirts that she has available in one window. Since most of them are cartoony (Batman, Hong Kong Phoey, Popeye…) she had hoped to spread out comic books on the floor of the …
Gulls on an iceberg
We’re finally having spring weather. The forecast is for a few more days of this.
Tim on an iceberg
One of the things i try to do when people visit is to get them on an iceberg for a photo. Stupid? Yes. But worth the risk so far. Since the LeConte Glacier is the southernmost tidewater glacier in North America you can’t do this any further south.
Sea Lion and a float plane
Today we took out Mike Tozzo‘s boat. We saw a humpback whale, plenty of sea lions, a harbor seal, and Tim got on an iceberg. Cena took this picture while i tried to line up the monster with the background.
The worst pool game ever won
Last night Tim and i went to the Imperial and played a few games of pool. We won the first game by a few and then began the second game. Neither of us sunk a single ball and our opponents ended up scratching right after they sunk the 8 ball. They had the kindness to …
Wednesday site stats
I’ve had a busy week so have lots to post. But that same busy schedule has kept me from updating in the last week. The group writing project at Problogger generated quite a boost in many of my rankings though. Technorati also changed one of their methods of rating sites. Technorati: 45,963 (down 30,199!) Technorati …
Wednesday website scores
I finally went a week with enough updates to have pushed the previous site stats off the front page. Technorati: 76,162 (down 1,745) 81 links from 59 blogs. Google Page Rank: 4 Alexa: 893,088 (up 10,843) Silktide Sitescore: 8.6 (down .5) Page Strength: 4 Feedburner subscribers: 22 (up 4) SocialMeter: 281 (up 63) BlogTopSites: 289 …
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