Love is like a Rock
Published September 18, 2009 | 
You can’t depend on your teacher
You can’t depend on your preacher
You can’t depend on politicians
You can’t depend on superstitions
– donnie iris
So tomorrow I hop back in my kayak to paddle the Upper Dells of the Wisconsin River along with a group from Rutabaga. Well, that is if the new Jeep starts. It seems to be having one of those battery/alternator/starter issues that simply leave you confused and going nowhere fast. Story of my life! Right now it’s at the mechanics. She’ll hook up the computer and like roulette wheel on a Mississippi River Boat Casino, it will tell me which of the 3 options I’ve selected to experience. It can’t be the battery as I’ve already made that purchase. However if my little wheel of misfortune does happen to land on “Battery”, it will be met with a long list of expletives loosely translated as, “Spin Again!”…
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great lakes, wisconsin, wisconsin dells, wisconsin river
Look what they done to my song, ma
Ma Ma look look what they done to my song
You know they tied it up in a plastic bag
And they turned it upside down ma
Ma Ma look at what they done
Won’t you look at what they done
Look what they done to my song.
- Melanie Safka
Google Earth’s new oceans upgrade is not doing the Great lakes any favors. In fact, it looks as if they had the six year old child of one of their developers just paint over everything with the simple instruction to stay away from the edges. One can only guess why Google could manage to show the bottom of the Atlantic but not Lake Superior. The Great Lakes in fact seem to be in a nether land between a body of water like Baffin Bay that while shallow still shows underwater topography, and smaller lakes that default to surface areas only. Maybe they intend at some point to add the underwater view of the great lakes? Hard to tell. While at the moment you can still see the detail close to the shoreline and around the islands, one has to say that in general the new treatment of the Great Lakes just looks rather harsh.