fires

What is it with fires? There was that club fire in Rhode Island. There was the subway fire in South Korea. A place next to my dad's gallery burned pretty bad. And the grandmother of a friend of a friend died when their house burned (and they lost all their posessions).

Iraqi Homeowner To Wait A While Before Re-Shingling Roof

BAGHDAD - Homeowner Aftab Shamoun, 34, announced Monday that he will likely wait "just a little while" before moving ahead with plans to re-shingle the roof of his Baghdad home. "Now may not be the best time to put on those nice new ceramic shingles," said Shamoun, whose roof was damaged in a wind storm last November. "Heck, I've been putting it off for so long, a few more months won't hurt." Despite putting the shingling project on the back burner, Shamoun said he plans to spend next weekend insulating his front windows with energy-efficient plywood boards.

one hundred years of flight

Anyone know of any big commemorations of the Wright brothers' flight? That was 1903, wasn't it?

Porcupine Mountains