I just saw a guy in a burgundy Zoot suit outside the coffeehouse smoking loose tobacco from what appeared to be a straight marijuana pipe. Ah, Stockton, you never fail to disappoint in your vast collection of characters.
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Caffeinated angry people shouldn’t abuse their laptops and talk out loud in the coffeehouse.
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Tagged angry people, caffeinated, coffee, coffeenouse, laptops
Another day, the same faces. We humans seem to be caffeine-fueled creatures of habit. I see many of the same people wonder in and out of the coffeehouse every day that I am here.
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Tagged brew, caffeine, coffee, coffeehouse, Coffeehouse Observer, creatures of habit, human behavior, java, joe, people
Tagged aid, donation, earthquake, Haiti, relief, Rotary International, ShelterBoxes, Wells
I am not sure if the men’s room at one coffeehouse I frequent has been cleaned since I started patronizing it nearly a year ago. It’s almost as if it’s 8 ft. X 8 ft. X 8 ft. Petri dish. Seriously!
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Tagged aid, deductible, deductions, donations, earthquake, Haiti, income tax, Jeff Bogue, MaineBusiness.com, relief
Here’s DownEast.com’s trivia question of the day. I believe I may have been here once or twice. Maybe. I’m not totally sure that it is accessible.
Where is the geographic center of Maine?
Answer:
In Piscataquis County, eighteen miles north of Dover-Foxcroft at Longitude: 69° 14.0’W and Latitude: 45° 15.2’N.
Posted in Maine trivia
Tagged Dover-Foxcroft, DownEast Magazine, geographic center, Piscataquis County
Tagged aid, benefit, earthquake, First Friday, Haiti, relief
(As I’ve written before, I like the idea of wind power and offshore wind farms. But the guy this story is about does provide another viewpoint that is worth considering. … But then again …. — KM)
The Herald Gazette: Environmental activist asks court to halt offshore wind power project.
(I found this Maine Public Broadcasting Network story interesting in that they are talking about using seawater, air and electricity to possibly turn the water into amonia and then fuel. It is a long-term project that could go on for a decade before you see cars running on the stuff. Still interesting, though. — KM)
Turning Seawater Into Fuel: Experiment Underway in Rockland.
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Tagged amonia, desalination, fuel, Gov. John Baldacci, Matt Simmons, Ocean Energy Institute, Robert West, Rockland, seawater
Decaf? Why bother?
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Here’s a trivia questioned from DownEast.com and the answer brought to mind the quote often attributed to Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake.”
She supposedly said it after she was told that peasants had no bread. It reflected the princess’ lack of knowledge – or concern – of the famine at the time.
What key development expanded lobster’s popularity?
Answer:
Once considered “poverty food,” lobsters became popular after the first cannery in Eastport was established in 1843. At their peak, Maine had more than thirty lobster canneries.
Lobster as a “poverty food” seems amazing today.
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Tagged "poverty food", cake, cannery, DownEast Magazine, Eastport, famine, lobster, Marie Antoinette, peasants
Here’s the top of a story in the Lewiston Sun Journal about a former Lewiston, Maine, resident who was helping orphaned Haitian children. A link to the rest of the story is below.
Again, there was no byline attached to the story or I would have included that information.
The Rev. Marc Boisvert was already making an impact in Haiti before the earthquake felt around the world rocked the small island south of Cuba.
On Tuesday, the former Lewiston resident’s impact grew deeper when his orphanage, known as Project Hope, announced that the facility would take in another 100 children orphaned as a result of the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in history.
“With our staff of 250 and over 140 acres, we have the capacity to handle the extra children left helpless because of this devastation,” Boisvert said in a press release issued Tuesday by Free the Kids, a stateside nonprofit organization that helps raise money for the Les Cayes orphanage.
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For more information: www.freethekids.org.
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