Daily Archives: 20/08/2007

my $0.02: mining safety, disasters, etc.

It’s been hard to avoid stories of the mining disaster in Huntington, Utah. With six miners still missing and (at this point) presumed dead, and three rescuers killed in a subsequent cave-in, there is a lot of sadness, anger and questions created in the aftermath. It’s well known that the owner of the mine, Robert …

20/08/2007 – 00:53 | By randomduck | Posted in government, politics, random, utah | Comments (1)

a fun weekend

After a last-minute cleaning blitz – most of the responsibility for the cleaning goes to sprite – we welcomed her parents into town for a weekend of dining and baseball. It was wonderful to have them back in town (they lived here nearly full-time for 14 years), and they got to see the Mets crush …

20/08/2007 – 00:13 | By randomduck | Posted in baseball, random, washington, dc | Comments (2)