The pictures in the folder named 2009-04-24 are from when Jesse and I went to Tom Harkin’s office and met with a member of his staff to encourage him to support ending the civil war in Uganda. We were very pleased with ourselves and decided to celebrate afterwards by meeting… Read More »2009-04-24
On July 3 I went down to Water Works Park in Des Moines with Jesse and to meet Russell to see Kamala Harris speak. It was absolutely pouring down rain and Water Works is an outdoor venue. The Kamala Harris campaign was nice enough to give us ponchos as we… Read More »President Quest 2020 – Kamala Harris
Last Friday I saw my 6th of 23 Democrat Presidential hopefuls when John Hickenlooper came to the Livery Deli. To be brutally honest, I don’t think I’ve seen the person that will be the Democrat nominee yet. Of the six I’ve seen, I’d give Bernie Sanders the best shot and… Read More »President Quest 2020 – John Hickenlooper
This is the 5th installment on my quest to meet, see, photograph, and possibly get photographed with the person that will take the Oval Office in January of 2021. On Memorial Day Sunday at noon I filed into the Livery Deli to see Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. There are a… Read More »President Quest 2020 – Amy Klobuchar
The pictures in the folder called 2009-02-18/Arizona_Day_3B are from the work/vacation to Arizona. The pictures are all from after Jesse and I met up with Lowell and Strabala and went back to the mini-mountain thing in Phoenix. As it would just so happen, while we were there, Air Force One… Read More »2009-02-18 – Arizona Day 3B
Last Tuesday I took a little bit of time off from the Computer Mine to make progress in my personal quest to meet, photograph, or at least see in person the person that will take office as the next President of the United States in 2021. Beto O’Rourke was in… Read More »President Quest 2020 – Beto O’Rourke
It has been over a month since I made any progress in my personal quest to meet, photograph, or at least see in person the person that will take office as the next President of the United State in 2021. I finally scratched a third person off the list when… Read More »President Quest 2020 – Bernie Sanders
It has been awhile since we checked in with THE SELFIE PROJECT. I figured today was as good of a day as any to check out March before April is over. I’m not sure I did more interesting things in March than I did in February or January where it… Read More »Selfie Project – March
It has been awhile since I made some progress in my personal quest to meet, photograph, or at least see in person the politician that will take office as the next President of the United States in 2021. Way back in January I saw New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at… Read More »President Quest 2020 – Cory Booker
There are 2 types of pictures in the folder called 10-26-08. Some are from Iowa State’s game with Texas A&M. The second type are pictures from a Suffrage Parade re-enactment that took place in Boone in 2008. Perhaps you don’t know that Boone was (possibly) the site of the first… Read More »10-26-08
There is quite the collection of images in the folder called 10-13-08. I can’t possibly include all of them in this here entry, so I’ll just have to pick out a few that I like the most. The pictures range from Gyro Day at the Computer Mine to the Ames… Read More »10-13-08
I have a personal quest to meet, photograph, or see in person the politician that will take office as the next President of the United States in 2021. In my quest I will try to see every (major-ish) candidate seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party. This quest could take… Read More »President Quest 2020 – Kirsten Gillibrand
Happy New Year to people who celebrate such things. I like to look at some meaningless statistics every 250 posts and I also look at fairly meaningless year end statistics. Just so happens that I get to combine them today!! Here is both a year in review and a celebration… Read More »Post #3252 – 2018 Year in Review
The images in the folder 09-23-08 are a little bit all over the place. There are pictures from a Little White Lye Soap sales event. Pictures from Alexis reveling in athletic glory. Plus a sticker given to me by Janice. Finally a strange sculpture that I think is uniquely Midwestern.… Read More »09-23-08
As the 2018 political season wound down, I found it to be a perfect time to tackle Page 70 and then subsequently Page 71 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Page 70 – Take a picture of something you hate. There are few things in the world I hate more than… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 70-71
I decided to make a few abstract images to commemorate the Blue Wave in the 2018 Midterm Elections. I was quite the historical night and a very successful night for the Democrats. Consider: Despite facing tremendous gerrymandering in many states, Democrats gained between 37-39 House seats. The most since the… Read More »#BlueWave2018
The folder 08-04-08 is filled with images of Teresa and I’s trip home from Kentucky. On the way back we stopped in Springfield, Illinois. Springfield is noted for being home of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. It also home of the Springfield Old Capitol Building where both Abraham Lincoln and… Read More »08-04-08
REMINDER It is once again time for me (and by me, I mean you guys) to pick out my photos to enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Once again, I am going to leave it up to a popular vote. The Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest allows you to enter… Read More »Flowers, Always and Always
This is the last collection of pictures from the March for Our Lives Rally. I was going to write a parody of the views of some of the gun nuts I have known and their reactions to the news of school shootings. Mostly a lot of hand wringing and worrying… Read More »And the Children Shall Lead
A few more American gun violence fun facts: Homicides by firearm per 1 million people: Australia 1.4 New Zealand 1.6 Germany 1.9 Austria 2.2 Sweden 4.1 Ireland 4.8 Canada 5.1 Switzerland 7.7 And the United States…. 29.7 Fun Fact #2 There have been more than 1,600 mass shootings since Sandy… Read More »Other Countries Are Laughing at Us
A brief history of school shootings in the United States. Maybe you’ll detect a trend: July 26, 1764 – Greencastle, Pennsylvania Enoch Brown school massacre: Perhaps the earliest shooting to happen on school or college property, in what would become the United States, was the notorious Enoch Brown school massacre… Read More »Books Not Bullets