It's always DougDay at Doug Bay -- that's what the locals call Douglaston Bay, "which overlooks the marshes of Little Neck Bay and is within walking distance of the Long Island Rail Road," according to a story today in the local Times Ledger newspaper.

Forget your proverbial sticky wicket, this Doug is dealing with a real one, over there in New Zealand. "Head groundsman Doug Strachan says bad weather has meant they have lost two days of preparation on the wicket and play will not start before the umpires' inspection at 2pm," NZOOM.com reports today.

Doug Anderson -- he's the County Administrator down in Florida's St. Lucie County -- says $8 million is expected to be available in the 2003-04 fiscal year to build a new housing pod at the Rock Road jail, according to today's Tribune. And it sounds like a good deal all around. The Trib reports that "an extra pod could pay for itself if the county made enough money housing federal prisoners," and that "The county could reportedly make an annual profit of more than $1.8 million if it installed 100 extra beds to rent to the federal government."

....Not to mention being able to grow all those new pod people....

One Doug's making his chocolate dream come true, in Bucks County. Soon, they'll be going nuts, too, along with "marzipan, old-fashioned hard candy, chocolate-covered espresso beans and gummy candy," sez thrill-seeking Doug.

Let's hear it for Doug Niesen and wife Jan. Jan came to the Lord in 1961 and started praying for Doug's salvation. Jesus came into Doug's life about 15 years ago and took away his desire for alcohol and nicotine. Doug and Jan recently completed eight weeks of lay ministry work in remote Alaskan villages, living their faith. "Doug said he’d be ready to go back to Alaska on a moment’s notice because their experience there was so meaningful," reports The Pine Journal of their home town, Cloquet, Minnesota. 'The people there love the Lord, they love to sing and they’re just so hungry for the Word,' he said. 'We will be going back– the good Lord willing – because he has certainly blessed us, and to God be the glory. And if Jan and I can do it, anybody can, because we do not have any special skills and we only made it through high school. Maybe it will be an encouragement to other people in Cloquet to do something like this.' "

Amen, Doug.

Today brings a double-Doug-twist with Bushes shaken lightly and not stirred. Doug Racine received a letter from Presidential bro' Jeb congratulating him on his victory in the Vermont gubernatorial race, but Bush was blowing smoke in the wrong man's ear. Jim Douglas, who ran Slayer of Evil-doers' Vermont Presidential campaign, actually won the election.

Parents are up in arms because Santa Fe High School band director Doug Morris told band members some dirty jokes, reports KTRK TV in Houston, Texas. A dozen parents wanted him fired but the school board is sending Doug for sensititivity training instead. No word yet on where the parents will go to remedy their humor deficiency. Nobody's laughing in another sensitive spot down south, either -- Washington State Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald discovered that the hard way after he declared, "We are the Mississippi of roads," according to the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. It turns out that Mississippi recently decided to spend nearly $9 billion on roads while Washington voters rejected an $8 billion road construction program. Still, it's hard to beat a good Mississippi joke. My personal favorite, heard frequently while growing up in yet another southern state: There are a lot of dumb people in Louisiana, but the dumbest are the ones who moved there from Mississippi.

Walmart or bald eagle habitat? St. Lucie County County Administrator, Doug Anderson is working with a real estate developer to make both possible, says the Press Journal of Vero Beach, Florida. If Flagler Development balks at donating the land necessary to protect the bald eagle nesting site, Walmart can always plaster some pictures of the endangered species on the Web site touting its commitment to the environment.

Dr. Doug Travis knows what's needed, but is the head of Western General Hospital's urology unit just pissing in the wind with his ideas on how to improve health Down Under?

President (that's got a nice ring to it) Doug Bennet banned chalk talk on sidewalks at Wesleyan University, because of "explicit sexual messages" he said. No word yet on what the anonymous chalksters suggested that President Doug do.

Doug James confirms it, in today's Dispatch Online: "The municipality is experiencing an increase in the theft of guard rails from bridges," says the acting director of engineering services, referring to the Buffalo City area of East London in South Africa. Doug failed to speculate why but does observe that the thefts endanger the lives of pedestrians and motorists. Meanwhile, a "concerned citizen" told authorities that he caught a man in the act of smashing guard rails into small pieces near a bridge. The man said he was going to sell it as scrap metal because he was hungry.

The good news, according to Doug Nyman, is that the trans-Alaska oil pipeline survived a 7.9 magnitude earthquake on November 3. The temblor "struck Alaska's interior, producing a 145-mile-long crack across the landscape and sending boats bobbing on lakes more than 3,000 miles away in Louisiana," reports today's San Diego Union Tribune. Doug was the pipeline's seismic design coordinator from 1973 to 1977.

The bad news is that we still have to worry about the oil spill that might happen if an even bigger quake shakes the pipeline, which crosses the Denali fault -- all the more so, given the wishful thinking that seems to have informed the pipeline's construction in the first place. "Before Nov. 3, seismologists didn't think the Denali fault could produce a really big earthquake, even though it had historically been very active, said Roger , state seismologist for the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska," reports the newspaper. "Indeed it was a sleeping giant so far," Hansen said.

Doug Millroy worries about wastewater, in Sault Ste. Marie.

This Doug fights molds and flesh-eating fungus, like the one that attacked Mark Tatum's face.

Doug Day .... 'nuff said.

Another Sad Doug and Dog Story

Here comes another Doug, helping to pick up the pieces. This time it's Doug Odney, of Calgary's Foothills Hospital, which treated a stabbing victim after this horrific scene, according to today's Edmonton Sun: "A stabbing victim was traumatized when his attacker ripped apart his pet puppy with a knife, snapped its bones, and left it screaming in such agony, police had to shoot it dead." Said Detective Ryan Dobson, "We don't know if the savage attack on the dog was by way of revenge, or whether it was stabbed as the victim held it in his arms when he was being stabbed."

This Doug knows how to start a stampede: lock the doors to a room that people are required to enter, and punish the few who don't manage to arrive on time. Funny thing is, that doesn't sound so strange in this double-bind world: "Come here! I don't want you!"

Doug Pray sounds like good advice, to me at least. That he's made a documentary film called "Scratch" -- released in 2001, now available on DVD and video -- is cool, too.

When they're nice, the police are great, aren't they?

Doug declared outstanding officer

Too bad they're not all like Doug; another headline:

Police brutality is top concern of NAACP, in the happy Hub City of the Cajun Country, no less.

Today, a NY Daily News headline says it all:

Stray cats? Drown 'em, sez state official

"....Biologist Doug Little suggested holding the furry animals' heads under water for several minutes in a telephone call that was secretly taped by the radical group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...."

Still a few rough edges on that compassionate conservative approach (scroll all the way down to the bottom of that linked page), it seems.

New Zealand health ministry spokesman, Dr Doug Lush warned travelers of a typhoid outbreak in Samoa -- watch out for unsanitary food or water. And, when visiting Moscow, be careful of the air you breathe if you go to the theater.

Somebody said, "America just elected Lula president."

Not Bush's America. Watch closely as Bush and the CIA use tested tactics to try and take Lula down, to protect the profits of the multinationals. (One Doug recently observed that US and European drug companies are pushing hard to stop generic drug manufacturers in Brazil and elsewhere, to keep them from selling low-cost knock-offs of their anti-HIV/AIDS drugs, profits a higher priority than health, apparently).

Or, will the south rise again?


A Christmas Greeting
From a Northern Star-Group to a Southern, 1889-'90

by Walt Whitman

Welcome, Brazilian brother--thy ample place is ready:
A loving hand--a smile from the north--a sunny instant hail!
(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles,
impedimentas,
Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the
acceptance and the faith;)
To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck--to thee
from us the expectant eye,
Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning
well,
The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky,
(More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,)
The height to be superb humanity.


...Only a dream in Whitman's day, yet this Doug dares to dream it still....

Feeling sad today for the unfortunate victims in Moscow, and for all people who suffer in violent conflicts around the world. How many innocents will we kill in our sometimes well-intentioned but misguided and oxymoronic attempts to use violence to stop violence? Knowing that hundreds of thousands of people marched against war yesterday -- one of the many non-violent tactics available -- blunts the pain's edge a little bit. Not much but a little. I wonder if it helps to make a ritual entertainment of violence, as this Doug does, to the applause and delight of many: do we discharge the unhealthy tensions that way, or in glorifying violence do we set the stage for more?

Today's lesson on keeping things in perspective and wisely choosing what battles to fight: No use crying over spilled...corn, says one Doug after the collapse of a storage bin wall and $3 million in damage. But another Doug -- who runs his own investment firm, no less -- is out to get the flim-flam man who scammed him for $15.

An arc for the day: The appropriately named Doug Gross pledges to push more alien genes into those Iowa cornfields, urging a worried public to trust the "experts" as human hubris pushes us ever deeper into the myth that we can somehow control (vanity!) life's wellsprings, while artist Doug Aitken "takes us through a dramatic presentation of Nature, as if to allude to the power of God's creation, leaving us with a strong sense of awe and foreboding."

This Doug strikes gold Down Under, that Doug worries about money in Mississippi. But -- and this is quite a leap, I know, chalk it up to the mood I'm in this morning -- all the gold in the world won't help these victims of not-smart-enough US weapons.

Well, doh! Doug...

Alaska's Department of Fish and Game appears to be moving away from a policy of conserving game for hunters to kill and towards protecting wildlife so people can enjoy watching and learning about the animals, non-violently. "It is a change," Doug Larsen, deputy director of the agency, tells Kenai Peninsula Online. Now, if we could just get the U.S Department of Defense to start focusing on how to keep people alive, instead of how to kill them....

Doug Aylen is evicting 8,000 dead people from their graves in South Australia's largest cemetery, "so plots can be reused," Doug says. Lease-holders will have a chance to renew expiring licenses and continue to rest in peace, however. "The cemetery's chief executive officer Doug Aylen said a list of affected graves would be published in newspaper ads," according to Australia's Herald Sun...but Doug isn't saying how he can be so certain that the dead people in question read the daily newspaper.

Grow up, Doug Grow. You can do better than to smirk and gloat and vicariously pummel Sara Jane Olson as she sits in jail, railroaded in the wake of 11 September 2001, victim (many people believe) of the culture wars that have split the U.S. of A. since the '60s.

"What would Jesus do, if he were alive today?" asks Doug Lapp, in the current issue of SojoMail, answering somebody who would call God's wrath down upon the current enemy-of-the-week as perceived by Bush & Co. "Would he choose to live a comfortable life as a citizen of the world's most powerful country? Would he join the masses by holding up this country's financial dominance as a clear sign of God's blessing? Would he put his faith in building and maintaining military supremacy in order to secure his own peace and prosperity? I think not. There might well be valid geopolitical reasons for waging war in Iraq. However, to claim God's blessing on this action is overreaching."

"Montgomery County, Md., Executive, Doug Duncan has attended every funeral held so far for the victims of the Washington-area sniper, and he has two more this weekend," but some critics wonder if he's grandstanding for political reasons. Cynical stuff, but perhaps not as cynical as people who worry about the U.S. military taking over domestic police duties, as Bush/Ashcroft move us ever closer to Big Brother....

Doug Deegan's Deer, Diseased

It's "chronic wasting disease" and it sounds nasty.

The Milwaukee Channel.com, 17 October 2002

Two Dougs Worrying About Wastewater

Faced with the need to take quick action to comply with state requirements, the Galt City Council is scheduled to consider short- and long-term solutions to the city's wastewater disposal problems tonight. "Immediate action to address the lack of disposal capacity for next summer is crucial," Public Works Director Doug Gault said in a memo to the City Council.
Lodi News-Sentinel, 16 October 2002

"Deputy City Manager Doug Worden said the city has $135,000 budgeted this year for an emergency power generator for a wastewater lift station on Market Street as well as $350,000 for repiping the lift station in conjunction with the ongoing Hawkeye sewer separation project. "
The Hawk Eye, 15 October 2002

Doug Locks Garbage Up Tight

"Waste Management of Alaska put its new bear-resistant cans through what was to be a final test Monday, with help from Alaska Zoo black bears. Mavis and Zayk ate out of the containers over the weekend, and on Monday they were given the locked container with their favorite foods inside. After thrashing the can for about 20 minutes, above, Zayk popped the lid and got his reward, left. Doug Daniels of WMA said the company will fine-tune the locking mechanism and wheels and offer the cans to customers on the Hillside and Girdwood in April. "

Anchorage Daily News, 15 October 2002

Doug Watches Big Ice Cube Melt

The ice breaker, Auruora Australis, is heading south on a five-week marine science expedition, the first Australian voyage of this season's Antarctic program. The ship will drop about 15 people off on Macquarie Island to work on summer wildlife programs, before heading to the Antarctic. The voyage leader, Doug Thost, says among other things it is hoped to study an iceberg which broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf several years ago.

"It is 90 kilometres long, 40 kilometres wide and we're hoping to put an automatic weather station on that and also we're looking at how fast these things melt," he said.


ABC News Online, 14 October 2002

Armed with Plastic, Doug Subdues Crazed Biker

"[...] Finally around 9:15 p.m., police were able to get a clear view of Kokolios inside the garage and used a Sage gun to bring him down. The gun shoots a non-lethal plastic cylinder about the size of a golf ball, American Canyon Police Chief Doug Koford said. When Kokolios hit the ground, officers rushed the garage and took him into custody. But he didn't go willingly, Koford said. 'He was very belligerent and uncooperative. He was yelling at everyone, including the time he was talking to the negotiators,' Koford said. Kokolios had to be subdued in a body wrap, which restrained his legs and arms, Koford said. During the time Kokolios was inside the garage, he started his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Koford said several times Kokolios attempted to crash the motorcycle through the door, but was unable to do so because law enforcement had secured the door. After he was taken down, Kokolios was taken by ambulance to Queen of the Valley Hospital were he was treated for the cut to his arm and carbon monoxide inhalation from the motorcycle fumes. "

NapaNews.com, 13 October 2002

"University of Alberta professor Doug Aoki thinks you are unattractive. ....Aoki, a practitioner of an obscure branch of psychoanalysis called Lacanian theory, delivered a presentation at the university Friday which focused on an ugly truth: Not everyone can be beautiful or brilliant, and most of us fall into the great mass of mediocrity."
The Edmonton Journal
October 12, 2002

Another Doug making the rest of us look bad:

"Republican Senate candidate Doug Forrester of New Jersey, fearful of almost certain defeat, is attacking his opponent, Frank Lautenberg, on the grounds that no gun safety law could have prevented the current killing spree that had traumatized the nation's capital. In fact, of course, Forrester knows absolutely nothing about the circumstances of the horror that has gripped the Washington area. Nobody does. except for forensic experts who are on the case -- and they're not talking, least of all to Doug Forrester. But that doesn't stop the desperate GOP candidate from exploiting the horror, and using it as a pretext to spout the National Rifle Association's gun-nut line. Doug Forrester has now established himself as the most despicable, indecent Republican candidate running for office this year -- and that's saying something! How dare he exploit the pain and anxiety of Americans in order to improve his poll ratings?"

from:
Media Whores Online
11 October 2002

Doug Martsch gets bored fast, moves on

Sorry, Doug. "Man bites dog," now that's news.

DOUG SAHM DAY
2pm
Sunday, October 13
Camargo Park
5500 Castroville

Doug Sahm makes beautiful music in heaven, no matter how sloppy things get on earth.

A DAY FOR DOUG

Somewhere in the seedy side of heaven there is a place for Doug Sahm. No doubt he has plenty of company: Hank is there, and so is Elvis, and Stevie Ray, and all the other musicians who meant so much to all of us. Townes Van Zandt busies himself writing timeless ballads, and Lefty Frizzell bangs them out on an old guitar with Ernest Tubb accompanying. There, off to the side, Valerio Longoria squeezes out a polka while T-Bone Walker plays the blues, and Bob Wills walks around with his fiddle, commenting on it all — Ah-haaah — in that lilting way so reminiscent of wide open West Texas spaces.


San Antonio Current, 10 October 2002

A couple of Doug's (OK, one has a Douglas as a family name, but that's close enough for government work, as they say) are slinging mud in the Vermont governmental race.

Preliminary reports show this spring's walleye and yellow perch hatches in Lake Erie were less than spectacular, which could have repercussions in the coming years. "We don't have anything official, but they're going to be rated very, very poor," said Doug Johnson, a biologist at the Sandusky office of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, division of wildlife. "We had a little bit of decent weather in April, but our April and May weather in general were terrible."

Port Clinton News Herald, 7 October 2002

All we seem to do these days is argue about the United States. And the arguments are awfully sparse, aren't they? Either our neighbour is the most powerful nation on Earth, a menacing imperialist intruder that we must resist, or it's the most powerful nation on Earth, a beneficial force of democracy and peace that we must join and support.

Let me offer you a new way of thinking about America: Over.

Under this school of thought, the United States stopped being the world's dominant nation years ago, and has quietly collapsed into being Just Another Country. We haven't really noticed this, the theory goes, because most other countries still act as if the United States has its old military and financial power, an assumption that could be stripped of its invisible clothes in the event of a protracted Iraq war.....

"The United States has been fading as a global power since the 1970s, and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks has merely accelerated this decline." So says Immanuel Wallerstein, the Yale University political scientist who is by far the most outspoken member of this camp. A gravelly old contrarian with little time for the orthodoxies of the left or the right, he may have gained his remove by teaching at McGill University in the 1970s.

In a forthcoming book, to be titled Decline of American Power,he describes his country as "a lone superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control." ....

This is how great powers end: Not by suddenly collapsing, but by quietly becoming Just Another Country. This happened to England around 1873, but it wasn't until 1945 that anyone there noticed.....

There are other signs: The middling liberals, who in the 1960s would have sided with the left in opposing U.S. imperialism, are today begging for an empire. Michael Ignatieff, the liberal scholar, argued at length recently that the United States ought to become an imperial force -- on humanitarian grounds. Would this argument be necessary if the United States actually dominated the world? ....


...says Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on 5 October 2002.

Doug Shivers.

So do I , sometimes.

Get down, Doug Brown!

"Are you having a hard time forgiving someone who wronged or betrayed you?" asks this Doug. "If so, here are some thoughts based on my own experience and study which you may wish to ponder. To help you explore Christian forgiveness, this site contains life experiences, biblical and psychological insights, self-test belief questions, sermons, voting on forgiveness questions, and a message board for discussions."

This Doug loves beer.

"On the 18th June, The Anarchist defeated both Drew McDonald and The Zebra Kid in the same night to become the Universal British Champion.  This means that Doug now represents all of the major promotions in Britain, including All Star, TWA, FWA, WAW and Premiere Promotions.  After being presented with the belt, Doug stated the following. 'I'd like to say it was an honour to win the belt here tonight in Southampton.  But I can't.  As far as I'm concerned, you can all go back in to the sea where your town came from.' Williams was then challenged to a tag team match at the next Southampton show.  However, after the lack of respect shown to him by the Southampton fans, Doug has decided to appear at Croydon that night. "

...That's telling them, Doug.

Doug Arenberg studies tumors.

Boring facts about me
Born on Halloween (Doesn't seem to surprise anyone?!?)
Born in Hanford, California
Lived in 5 states CA,WA,OR,ID,OK,IL 
(Currently and Permanently in ID)
I am 39 years old (Surprises most I've lived this long)
I am a little guy (6'2", 235lbs.)
My maturity level is barely above my kids

...and that's the way it is at Doug's Pointless Playground

"Doug Miers first arrived on Earth thirty-five years ago, an infant in an alien spacecraft that crashed-landed on his foster parents' doorstep. He was raised in a small Texas town where he thrived on a steady diet of nails, depleted uranium and poptarts.

"Doug was kidnapped in his sleep one night and brought to California, where he was forced to attend Stanford University. After reading Finnegans Wake for the twenty-seventh time, he found the nerve to cross the street and finally escaped captivity.

"After several failed attempts at world domination, Doug turned to the next logical career choice: comic books. After paying dues as a ghost writer, creative consultant, comic book writer and video game designer, he joined the sequential graphics conspiracy and is now embroiled in the proliferation of comic books across the country."


Doug Miers, "not just another mutant web master."

Douglas' Detective Company

Sorry, I don't have a clue....

Doug helps Dr. Gridlock

....Reader Anna C. Martin of Falls Church asked why drivers sometimes stop two or three car lengths from the vehicle in front of them at stoplights. "I find this disconcerting and dangerous," she wrote. "What is the philosophy of this?"

I didn't know and asked the audience. There's no shortage of helpful answers....

Dear Dr. Gridlock:

In response to Anna C. Martin of Falls Church: The reason the gap is not closed (1 1/2 to two car lengths should be sufficient) is because the driver of the second car is doing two things.

First, should there be an incident three, four or five cars back and the driver of the second car reacts quickly and safely, he/she should be able to get out of the way.

Second, should the car in front become disabled, you have enough room to go forward and around the car, thus preventing a traffic backup.

Doug Folks
Mechanicsville

It can't get much better than this: a site about movie dogs by a guy named Doug.

Tales from the Dougside

They speak for themselves.

Another Doug flips his lid.

"Don't Ask Don't Tell" takes a notorious public-domain stinker from 1954 — the numbingly dull science-fiction thriller "Killers From Space" — and fixes it up with a new, tongue-in-cheek soundtrack. A technique pioneered by Woody Allen (who turned a Japanese spy movie into "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" in 1966) and later adapted by the television series "Mystery Science Theater 3000," it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years, though "Don't Ask" still finds a few chuckles. The original film starred the B-movie stalwart Peter Graves as Dr. Douglas Martin, a nuclear scientist kidnapped by a band of space aliens and reprogrammed to act as their spy inside the Army's atomic bomb project. The reconfigured version, directed by Doug Miles, finds Mr. Graves, now with the voice of Erik Frandsen, kidnapped by the same aliens, though their plan is somewhat different: with the help of a mysterious ray, they intend to turn every earthling into a homosexual. "We are the men who make you gay," boasts the alien leader, thus putting an abrupt end to the nature-versus-nurture question that has troubled psychologists for years.

from:
Friends of Dorothy From Over the Rainbow
New York Times, 20 September 2002

You go, Dougs!

Indeed, the face of this bleak society gives little clue to a new spirit. Mornings in Pyongyang start with melancholy notes floating from loudspeakers to awaken the city. "It's called 'The Song of Our Great Leader Kim Il Sung,' " said a government guide. "That's how our people start their morning." The song is not a call to hopeful expectations, but rather a summons to another day of resigned toil.

The high-rise cement apartment buildings seem to grow out of a morning mist of sooty smoke from wood and coal fires. A rhythmic chant comes from a group of young men already at their mandatory calisthenics. The sun struggles up red and angry from the smog.

In the evenings, residents linger outside. There is no rush to go home, for home is a drab, cramped apartment. At a city park, there is more murmur than talk, subdued and without laughter. Families spread a few dishes on a concrete plaza and eat quietly as the night wraps around them, until they are but black shapes in a darkened city.

At home, their apartments are lit by one or two bulbs or a fluorescent light. Men in undershirts and women in housedresses are at the open windows, leaning out as though to escape the gloom. Children crowd onto a single sliding board on a narrow cement playground. A few workers shovel from the pile of coal dumped outside each building, moving the fuel to the basement beside creaking furnaces.

The weak glow from the windows seems all the more dismal for the gloriously lit monuments and heroic tableaus that shimmer against the dark backdrop.

Doug Strucke, waxing poetic in a socialist realist vein,
in the Washington Post , 21 September 2002.

"Here Jo is looking at the Newton's Cradle.
It's stood on the back of the conjoined lower halves of a pair of twins -- I'm looking off-camera to their conjoined upper halves.
To find the text of the story, just put "bowling night" and "newton's cradle" into your favourite search engine.
There are eight images in all:
Jo gets a prize, The twins drink their coffee, Newton's cradle (uncensored), Jo divided, This arm is getting lighter, losing her waist, unzipping the shorts, and the bowling lesson."

Douglas' LiveJournal

"now orbiting planet doug"

Looking up in the forest, Doug paints, cosmically.

In case you were wondering where to get "up to date infomation on Tasmanian Table Tennis, particularly activities at the Kingborough headquarters of the Southern Tasmanian Table Tennis Association" -- the Doug McLean Table Tennis Website

"Kiwi and Rudy: Our dogs are so much fun!!  They just love to hang around with people.  So cute! Kiwi even does those funny movements when she is sleeping like 'I'm running really fast and catching stuff.  Oh, it's so much fun.  Woof, Woof!'  She is also fun to give a bath to.  We put her in the shower and wash her, but when she gets ready to do the shake thing, we close the sliding door and stay dry."

Doug Campbell avoiding the shake thing.

How stars explode....

Good work, Doug.

M. Douglas Wray, agent of karma

Words don't suffice....

"I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and god-like trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love,and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. "

continues at:
The Homepage of Douglas Sloane

"My research focuses on computational models of language processing. The main questions I seek to address are how adults comprehend and produce sentences and how children learn these abilities. More specific issues I am concerned with involve the representation of word meanings, how semantics and syntax interact, and the effects of delayed learning or interference from a primary language in second-language learning. "

I'm trying hard to understand what the people around me are saying, too, Doug.

"Hi!  My name is Rusty. This is my website, pretty cool huh?  I am a miniature dachshund and my birthday is the same as Doug's! My favorite things to do are stealing my friend Scooter's pigs ears, and eating cheese.  I had back surgery in January, but now I feel great!  I have more toys than any other "little guy" I know. My dad says I'm the best! Come back often, cause dad says he's gonna add more pictures of me often!"

Doug, Dad of a Talking Dog....

"Whether or not the attacks were the triggering event for a recession, analysts agree they will mean a continuing and costly bid to build up the nation's defenses against similar events -- something other nations like Britain have learned to deal with in the face of groups that sponsor terrorism.

'The long-term effect is going to be that we will be spending a lot more on security, which is spending that we don't measure very well and that means that our productivity rates may not be as good as they have been,'' said economist Doug Lee of Economics from Washington.

Already, Lee noted, the Bush administration is proposing a new homeland security department and boosting spending on airport security and on immigration controls. The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting that 80 percent of budget surpluses once forecast at $1.7 trillion for the decade from 2002 to 2011 will melt away. "
New York Times, 8 September 2002

Who profits as the "budget surplus" money gets spent on homeland security (and the war we seem to be sleepwalking towards), Doug?

"....My only other experience with barbecue was highly disastrous. All I'll say about that episode is, if you don't know how to cook ribs, don't even think about serving your first attempt to guests, and don't use a gas grill. Some years later, after attending a real barbecue, where the meat is cooked "low and slow", I realized I needed to learn the ways of authentic barbecueing. I got ambitious, cleaned up the old smoker, and gave it a shot. I was amazed that, even for a trial run - on this old hunk of junk - it didn't turn out half bad. So, knowing it could be better, I set out to try to improve the results."

No longer cooking with gas at House of Doug.

Scroll down for cool "Doug" logo.

"Dr. Vakoch started his work in SETI during high school, where he won several awards at International Science and Engineering Fairs for his interstellar messages for communicating with extraterrestrials. He continues to research ways that different civilizations might create messages that could be transmitted across interstellar space, allowing communication between humans and extraterrestrials even without face-to-face contact. Dr. Vakoch is particularly interested in how we might compose reply messages that would begin to express what it's like to be human. In addition to his work in composing interstellar messages, Dr. Vakoch conducts research on the history of the extraterrestrial life debate, policy issues related to SETI, and possible psychological and religious responses to detecting a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence."

from:
Doug Vakoch - Social Scientist

Earth calling Doug...come in, Doug....

".... in 1997 my doctors suggested that getting a computer would be a good way to retrain my brain as being in a coma for over a month had some affect on my ability to remember and think clearly. This was the first time I was seriously introduced to a computer and at first honestly didn’t feel that it was going to help me....In 1999 I started working on building this website and for the most part felt I had finished it in December of that same year. Little did I realize it wouldn't be long before I would start to write my own poetry. Mostly derived from thoughts pertaining to me and the situations that I've gone through in my own life it soon became a great way to express my thoughts and feelings in a positive way. At the same time I also started to feel that if I could share my poetry with others, they too may be able to relate with my writings and hopefully be inspired in some small way. It's also given me a lot of satisfaction and gratitude and like most homepages it will never be finished. "

from:
Doug's World

"Deadly Doug is a site for all Aston Villa fans who have been following the club for far too long to take life seriously."

DougtheSlug.com

Cats and Doug's obsession, furry.

dougah: Most pirates are mystics, aren't they?? In a kind of sorta way?

the pirate: hey dougah, i'm a mystic. and they all thought pirates were dumb.

doug: A bird, eh? I'd like to be a falcon, or maybe an albatross. Yeah! Around somone's neck... Oh, wait, I am. I am.

Mute Troubador

Just a cog in the Machine...

Doug's LEGO Robotics Page

"A home page is an electronic ego trip. "

Doug Wyman's Home Page

"With my masks, I do not seek to capture or render some external truth. Instead, I seek to give form to raw emotion, raw memory."

from:
Doug Uptmor's Online Gallery.

"Well, being able to track a face from images contributes toward the ability to monitor a user's attention and reactions automatically and without intrusion, and has obvious benefits in human-machine interaction."

"You lookin' at me, Doug?

"After 8 years of making Web pages, I still haven't learned anything about Web design," said Doug Beeferman.

I can relate...thank goodness for the 'blog thang.

Doug Mink "helped discover the rings of Uranus."


...and some of us discover nothing more than ring around the collar.

"Now you can be brilliant and flawless forever. But you have to be cremated first. A company based in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village has accepted its first deposit for manufactured diamonds made from carbon captured during the cremation process so that loved ones -- family members or even pets -- could be mounted into a ring, pendant or other jewelry....

"After three years of trial and error using the cremated remains of several animals and a cadaver, VandenBiesen said, a diamond-manufacturing laboratory outside of Munich, Germany, reported success in April. The lab, owned by an American company, said that one human body could yield up to 50 stones of varying sizes ...."

"Life Gem officials say the process begins when technicians control oxygen levels during cremation to prevent carbon in the body from converting to carbon dioxide. The incineration is interrupted so the technician can collect the body's carbon in the form of a dark powder. The powder then is sent to a Pennsylvania company where it is heated in a vacuum at extreme temperatures to produce graphite. Only about a thimbleful is needed to produce a stone, Herro said. The graphite is sent to the German lab and placed into autoclaves that simulate the intense pressure and temperature needed to create the stones. Because so little material is needed to make a stone, a family still would receive an urn containing their loved one's ashes. Life Gem says it guarantees that diamonds can be made only when the company oversees the cremation process.

"Doug Ahlgrim, director of Ahlgrim & Sons Funeral Services' four locations in the Northwest suburbs, said he is training his staff to explain the new product to customers. ... 'This is sorely needed for families who choose cremation,' Ahlgrim said. 'An urn is beautiful in its own right, but you certainly can't take it wherever you go.' "

...said grim Doug, all sparkling.

www.Doug.com

...'nuff said.

"Throw me a frickin’ bone here!"

Talk to Doug Erwin, at the Smithsonian.

"Workers from the National Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman unearthed the remains of two tyrannosaurs along with a triceratops at a dig on remote Hell Creek this summer. In recent years, the site has emerged as a rich trove of all sorts of dinosaur bones. [...] The Smithsonian's share of the Hell Creek T. rex includes a femur (thigh bone), a tibia (shin bone) and a complete foot, with toes. Last summer dinosaur hobbyist Nathan Myhrvold, a former head of research for Microsoft and a sponsor of the digs, discovered a partly exposed bone that led to the discovery of the fossil trove, which was excavated this summer.

'It is phenomenally well preserved. These additions tell us more about how T. rex lived,' said Doug Erwin, the Smithsonian's interim director and curator of the paleobiology department. Horner's research, Erwin said, is focused on the ecology of the dinosaurs and their metabolism. 'We are not trying to find new dinosaurs but trying to understand the world they lived in,' Erwin said."


"T. Rex Marks the Spot
Dinosaur Bones Found in Montana Are Heading for the Smithsonian"
by Jacqueline Trescott
Washington Post, 21August 2002

Dig!

"Dogs must not bark for more than six minutes in any hour between 7am and 10pm, or more than three minutes an hour between 10pm and 7am. If not controlled, home owners can be taken to court or dog may be removed from premises."

Says the Courier Mail, on 10 August 2002.

"University of Queensland local government specialist Doug Tucker said the daunting array of restrictions was a reflection of our increasingly urban society."

Explain that to your dog, Doug.

Every Doug has his day.