Happy Earth Day. Well . . every day should be that, and although I recall and participated in the very first one in 1970, I’m no longer so enamored of the name. Planet Day would be better, and of course every day should be that as well. Actually . .. I’m rather more attracted to declaring this and every day Sea Day. Actually, every day already is, with a parade of random vessels making their way past the KV buoy every day all day.
See that random stuff floating in the foreground on KVK waters?
This was at my feet that same day, all arranged by tide and wind and buoyancy. And here’s more.
Some these pics I took a month ago, a day I’d just heard about the search for the tragic Malaysian Flight 370. What struck me as strange was the reporter’s reference to “sea junk” … a term that seemed to suggest the sea was responsible for debris of all sorts floating there.
Calling it “our junk” would make more sense.
Today is also the 50th anniversary of the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair. If you don’t think the world has changed much in a half century, watch The Magic Bus, a video about a journey from California to the World’s Fair.
Go back a century . . . 1914 was also the year of opening the Panama Canal, the Cape Cod Canal . . . and more.
OK . . . let’s go back to today. I got work to do. Look at this desk junk . . . my desk. Note the logo on cup and guarded by the feline.
Let mer see . . . happy see day.
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April 22, 2014 at 10:16 am
walt
Cats and computer keyboards!
We had an electronic SCM typewriter, and the LCD went blank.
We brought it to the mechanic, he said: You have a cat, and showed
us the brightness adjustment. The cat slept up against it. No charge.
He could have really duked us!
-The coolest sea glass I found was a Champion Sparkplug Porcelain Insulator: all that was left was the corroded center electrode, and the porcelain, It was on the beach in Cape May @ the migratory bird sanctuary
April 22, 2014 at 10:31 am
tugster
i’ve seen sea glass, insulators and spark plugs included, sold as jewelry.
April 22, 2014 at 2:12 pm
JED!
And then there are the Maidhof Bros; purveyors of Sea Junk
http://www.seajunk.com
April 22, 2014 at 2:24 pm
tugster
they look like some real characters i’d not heard of til now. gotta get me some sea junk maybe. thanks for the info.
April 29, 2014 at 8:48 am
Ken
I just saw this post and it seems I made a similar post…:) Very cool.