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Rosalea Barker: The week has a thousand i's
Monday, 15 January 2007, 11:03 am | Rosalea Barker
No, I'm not referring to the first person who comes to mind in that category for last week, but Steve Jobs, whose iDiocy dominated the news Tuesday. If dropping the word "Computer" from the company's name is a signal that Apple is now going to concentrate ... More >>
Transit tales: Desert crossings
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:25 am | Rosalea Barker
Careful what you wonder about. As we crossed the high desert on our way back to the Bay Area from the Grand Canyon at Christmas, I wondered what it must have been like to cross those miles upon miles of Desert Road-like terrain without truck stops, ... More >>
Images: Funeral of Gerald R. Ford
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 11:00 am | Rosalea Barker
The only people allowed any closer than 4 lanes distance from the church were Fox video, an AP photographer, and the official military photographer. A flatbed truck was set up for the major media players, and the military were also taking less formal ... More >>
Stateside With Images/Audio: Rosalea's Roadtrip
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:17 pm | Rosalea Barker
In the spirit of Charlie Sheen's character in Two and a Half Men, who so famously said, "What better place to celebrate the birth of our Lord than at Caesar's Palace?", I went on a four-day bus tour over Christmas. Here are some pix, and ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Winding Down
Monday, 18 December 2006, 9:19 pm | Rosalea Barker
From one of the recipients of Time Magazine's Person of the Year award: "The mayor was abused and other 'embodiments of evil' were water bombed. Some of this activity was photographically recorded and put on the internet. How is this not a great people's ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Full Moon Over The Teacups
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 3:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
Completely unreliable sources have informed me that the person who poisoned that Russian spy bloke was born in the Year of the Horse. Or is a Mafia Don. Maybe even a Mafia Don born in the Year of the Horse and with a predilection for smallgoods. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Law And Order
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 6:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
Many a Wellington moon long hence, I lived in one of a group of houses that lined the driveway leading to the home of a Justice of the Peace. At any time of the day or night, members of the vice squad, drug squad or other manifestation of the NZ ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: A Loooong Weekend
Monday, 27 November 2006, 11:24 am | Rosalea Barker
Thursday was Thanksgiving Day, or the Day Before Black Friday, as it is quickly becoming known. Not entirely immune to the blandishments of junk mail, I set off early on Thanksgiving morning to scope out the nearest Wal-Mart store, in anticipation of ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: All Over the Place
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:51 pm | Rosalea Barker
I can't believe there's still six weeks until the end of the year. Retailers started advertising their "holiday" sales even before Veterans Day (11/11) was over. And it's clear the holiday they're referring to isn't this week's Thanksgiving. No, there ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Happy! Happy! Happy!
Monday, 13 November 2006, 1:13 pm | Rosalea Barker
Is Joe Lieberman really an ID (Independent Democrat) as he has asked the Senate to refer to him? Or is he just another OPJ--Opportunistic Power Junkie--who'd rather see the United States electoral system mocked around the world for the laughable ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The Fog Of Elections
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:23 pm | Rosalea Barker
San Francisco’s famous fog stretched all the way across SF Bay to Oakland this morning. Overnight, every fence near where I lived sprouted a Yes on 87 sign. California’s Proposition 87 pitted Clinton asking you to say Yes to taxing oil companies and using ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: San Francisco Politics
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:43 pm | Rosalea Barker
The phrase "San Francisco politics" is being used as a bogey-man these mid-term elections as a way of scaring voters away from electing a Democratic majority in the House. Should the Democrats prevail, the new House Leader would be Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Torquing Heads
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 2:33 pm | Rosalea Barker
Torque is a measure of how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate. So if you put a handful of folks together who are determined to move conservative people's politics towards the progressive end of the spectrum then you have the torquing ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: On The Water
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:49 am | Rosalea Barker
On Sunday, the Emirates Team NZ crew, skippered by Ben Ainslie, won the Allianz Cup match racing on San Francisco Bay. More >>
Emerald City, Golden State, Orange Jumpsuit
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:07 pm | Rosalea Barker
Stay after school, Mr Fernandez, and write 500 times: "I must not say 'there has been arrogance and stupidity' by the US in Iraq." Bad diplomat! Climb back into your Green Zone bubble and hush your mouth! More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Shopping With Doreen
Monday, 16 October 2006, 5:06 pm | Rosalea Barker
When I was growing up in a small country town in the ’50s and ’60s, one of the special treats of staying home sick on a school day was that I’d get to listen to the Shopping Report with Doreen on 2ZB. Wellington seemed like such a magical ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Politics
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:37 am | Rosalea Barker
The reason some interstate highways in the US display five silver stars on a light blue background is that they are part of the Eisenhower Interstate System, which is 50 years old this year. Eisenhower is one of only five Five Star Generals in US ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Rosalea Does SF
Monday, 9 October 2006, 3:24 pm | Rosalea Barker
The first week of October is totally THE best time to be in San Francisco. The days might start off foggy but by the afternoon it is sunny and warm, and in the evening you get the golden-est sunsets. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Gettin’ You Some Learnin'
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 1:17 pm | Rosalea Barker
At the risk of sending you off to cyberspace never to return let me say that, if have access to Google Video and want to learn what makes the universe tick, then you should try out the series of lectures called "Physics for Future Presidents" ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Update And Some Feedback
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:25 am | Rosalea Barker
::Media release from the Society of Professional Journalists:: September 20, 2006 “San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada and freelance journalist Josh Wolf were named Journalists of the Year by the Northern California ... More >>
