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Wednesday, December 29th 2004

Tuesday, December 28th 2004

I have scanned a number of my old family photos, some dating back to the mid 1800's. Here the galleries:

Curtis Family

Bauer Family

David William Bullock (my father)

Virgil William Bullock 

This is the obituary of my great grandfather (my Father's Mother's Father): 

Death Takes Pioneer. S. P. Station Agent

George Louis Curtis, 84, of 835 Atlantic Ave., pioneer Southern Pacific station agent and life-long California resident, died Wednesday at his home. Curtis was born in Gold Run, Placer County, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Ransom D. Curtis, who came to California in 1864 via the isthmus of Panama. He came to Long Beach from Anaheim in 1889, becoming the second station agent for the Southern Pacific in Long Beach at the age of 23. Curtis also worked for the Santa Fe in Orange and Monrovia, retiring from their employ in 1936 and moving back to Long Beach. At one time he was a partner in the Towne Electric Co. here.[Long Beach] He was a member of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church.

'Curtis' and his surviving wife, Wilhelmina, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April 1945. Also surviving are daughters, Misses Marjorie M. and Dorothy Curtis, and Mrs. Virgil W. Bullock, all of Long Beach, and Mrs. Ernest L. Dolley, North Hollywood; son, George W., Boston, Mass.; five grandchildren, Janet, David [My father] and George Bullock and Leland and Marilyn Dolley, all of Long Beach. Services will be 1 :30 p. m. Saturday in St. Luke's Episcopal Church with Dr. Perry G. M. Austin officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hills Memorial Park Holton & Son will be in charge of arrangements.

GEORGE L. CURTIS

George L Curtis Claimed by Death


George Louis Curtis, 84, of 835 Atlantic Ave., second station agent for the old Southern Pacific Railroad line on Broadway from 1889 to 1893, died Feb. 8 at his home.

His parents came to California by sailing ship via the Isthmus ofPanama, and settled at Gold Run, Placer Couhty. George was born there on Jan. 16, 1866, but spent his boyhood in Anaheim. In April, 1895, he was I married. to Whelmina Bauer at Anaheim and was station agent and operator for the Southern Pacific for 22 years. In 1904 he returned to Long Beach and was partner in the old Towne Electrical Co. He also was with the Santa Fe Railroad for 18 years, stationed at Monrovia and then in Orange. He retired in 1936 and returned to the family home in Long Beach. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1945. He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal parish. Surviving are the widow; four daughters, Marjorie M. Curtis, J Dorothy Curtis and Mrs. Virgil L. Bullock of Long Beach, and Mrs. Ernest L. DoBey of North Hollywood; a son, George W. Curtis, M. D., of Boston, Mass.; five grandchildren, Janet, David and George Bullock, and Leland and Marilyn Dolley, and a niece. Service will be held in St. Luke's Church Saturday at 1:30 , p.m., Dr. Perry G. M. Austin. rector officiating. Interment will be. in' Rose Hills Memorial Park,Whittier. Holton & Son Mortuary will direct the arrangements.
 

Sunday, December 26th 2004

Just got back from Las Vegas. I had a great time. It was really nice spending the holidays with my whole family and my lovely fiance. We stayed at Harrah's last night, ate some good food and drank some good liquor. Here are some pictures.  

Friday, December 24th 2004

For Christmas (as you may have read about in my last post) I registered a domain for my fiance Penelope. I also set her up a site just like this one only prettier. Check it out! 

Hope you are all having a merry holiday! I have created a few sites as Christmas presents for my fiance, my niece and nephew, and a couple of friends:
Peneloper
Skyela
Auhstin
Bassbinboy
Mike Rocchio
I haven't done any designs for them yet, those will come in the next few days so for now they looks somewhat generic. Btw if I created a site for you and you need help setting it up let me know!
 

Wednesday, December 22nd 2004

Well as you can see (or maybe not if your don't run a CSS compliant browser) my site has been updated. The design update was the easiest one I have ever done! All I had to do was change 1 file and my entire site was updated. I am all about separating content from design!

I have also improved the way the images work so that they can be cached by your browser (and save me bandwidth). I am about to update slacker and created a whole plethora of sites. =] 

Tuesday, December 21st 2004

Right now the files are still being cached... it takes a bit of time to create all the flat files so you may find some links do not work... they will just wait! 

I have created a caching mechanism for eecue / slacker. Every time a page is added or changed, a (mostly) flat html file is created. This will prevent server overloads from slashdotting and whatnot. It also greatly decreases the page load time. This caching mechanism also creates a flat file for the RSS feeds (which allows HTTP/1.1 to handle the work). I have also improved the page navigation for multiple page albums etc. I am adding this and the other functionality I added to slacker and will be creating sites for several people for xmas. 

Monday, December 13th 2004

This weekend I attended the San Bernardino Sheriffs Search and Rescue Basic Mountaineering Course. This course covered all the skills necessary for an alpine search and rescue mission in the San Bernardino mountains.

BMC

The course actually started a month ago with 16 hours of classroom time. This weekend was the field exercises where we got a chance to apply the skills we learned about in the classroom. It was important to know the skills at a level known as unconscious competence, which means you can execute the task correctly without having to think about it.

  • Here are some of the skills we covered:
  • Ice Axe Self Arrest
  • 2 and 3 Person Roped Travel
  • Snow Anchors
    • Picket
    • Ice Axe
    • Deadman
    • Bollard
  • Crampon Travel
  • Ice Axe Travel
  • Snowshoe Travel
  • Snow Shelters
  • Belaying
  • Avalanche Beacons

All in all it was a great training and I had a great time and learned many valuable skills. I plan on attending the next two trainings.

Here are the pictures I took.

 

Wednesday, December 8th 2004

I found this blog entry about Search and Rescuefrom my feedster search: Feedster Search: Search And Rescue... The owner of the blog is a member of the St. John's College Search and Rescue team, which I was a member of when I was in High School. =] 

It was a lot of fun, because our instructor was not the pseudo-harassed Senior we've become used to, but this big guy who looked to be anywhere from 60 to 80 and who founded the St. John's Search and Rescue team. 

Tuesday, December 7th 2004

Ok I have set up my gallery to show in a hierarchal mode so that they are easier to navigate... I have integrated all the old photos into the gallery. 

Saturday, December 4th 2004

I have finished importing my japan photos and they are now located here:

http://eecue.com/japan

 

Ok I have imported all my eecue.com photos from before I was using gallery. Check them out... note that the dates are totally incorrect on most of them because I never set the time on my old camera... oh well... the japan photos are coming soon! =] 

Friday, December 3rd 2004

Ok so during the update I added a really cool feature. The calendar now displays thumbnails for each event / photo group / post from this site... check it out:

It may take a second for all the thumbnails to load so be patient! Also there is a problem viewing the page in Internet Explorer (it looks like a long list of links instead of a calendar...) So use Mozilla or Safari. =] 

So I am now working on getting all my old digital photos in this gallery. The list of photos I will be importing includes:

  • Old eecue.com photos (everything from before i set up gallery)
  • Japan Photos
  • Drive Slagging Photos
  • Junglescene Photos (I will also be updating junglescene.com's photo section to be like the eecue.com section)
  • Old junglescene.com photos (before they were linked to calendar items)
  • Original junglescene.com photos (from 1999-2000)
I think that is everything.... keep an eye out! I will feature the imported photo groups on here... Some will get their own linked pages, like the Japan Photos... 

Thursday, December 2nd 2004

My cat died a few weeks ago... I just wanted to post up these pictures of him in memory... I miss you little guy!

 

Scientest at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs are working on a microscope that will help push forward the next wave of nanotechnology.New microscope could focus nanotech dream

(Via topix D.O.E..) 

The U.S. Department of Energy is enlisting partners to develop a microscope that can capture images of particles measuring a half an angstrom, or half the size of a hydrogen atom, a necessary step in the nanotechnology evolution. 

Wednesday, December 1st 2004

Every now and then cicadas invade our forests, and as it turns out, the forests love it.

 

"They came by the billions to the eastern US in May and June - small, cacophonous, winged bugs called "periodic" cicadas. Every 17 years they emerge from underground in landscape- shrouding droves, reproduce, then die.

For humans, the cicada party is annoying. But new research suggests North American forests love it." 

In the future we will definately be seeing many space based lasers, most will be weapons, but some will be for propulsion, according to this article from the CS Monitor.

 

Sailing through space on a plasma beam | csmonitor.com: "STAR TREK FICTION NEARS REALITY: BEAM ME TO MARS! Scientists hope to speed space travel by using a series of satellites, each emitting a high-powered plasma beam. That beam can push a spacecraft forward rapidly from satellite to satellite. Researchers say that MagBeam technology can reduce the travel time to Mars from roughly six months to 40 days. 

Kevin Sites in an embedded journalist in Iraq. I have been reading his blog for a few months and I recently read that he was the journalist who filmed the Marine shooting the unarmed soldier. He wrote about it in his blog: Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1

(Via kevinsites.)

 

"To Devil Dogs of the 3.1:

Since the shooting in the Mosque, I've been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As you know, I'm not some war zone tourist..."