Maiden's Cliff, Camden, Maine

Maiden's Cliff, Camden
Originally uploaded by jetteroheller.

When most people ask, I tell them "I'm from the United States". Mostly because I am, and have lived on every corner of the U.S.

But to friends, I'll tell them where I'm really from, and that's from Maine.

Despite mosquitoes large enough to carry small children away, I still consider Maine one of the most beautiful places on earth.

I look at places like this photo (which I took while on a hike along Maiden's Cliff in Camden, Maine) and remember why it is that I'm involved in Scientology, and why it is that this planet is worth doing something about. There are a lot of real beautiful places left, and a lot of genuinely good people around.

Glenfinnan Scotland 2nd October 2007

Glenfinnan Scotland 2nd October 2007
Originally uploaded by loose_grip_99.

Whoa - that's another one taken with my model of camera -- a Konica Dimage Z2.

My photos were all with the wide-angle attachment, but this fellow doesn't look like he needed it with that expanse of country.

That's Scotland. If you're a Scientologist in Scotland, or want to get involved, there's a Church of Scientology in Edinburgh.

They Said Half a Hit of Ecstasy Would be Fun....

After seeing this Anti-ecstasy PSA on I was just over at a pro-ecstasy forum to see if this is really the case.  Its actually ridiculous to me.  In the same sentence people were saying how the xtc made them feel all fantastic or whatever, and at the same time were saying that it makes them soil themselves and vomit all over the place.

I really don't get it.  Can someone enlighten me?

Note on Flickr Photos in Search Results

Just noted this, and figured it'd be worth mentioning - even if just as a note to self.  I posted a few days ago about the anti-psychiatry photo that I posted on Flickr, which was - the next day - the number  1 result on Google when searching for "anti-psychiatry".   By the end of the day, it was at #2, and days later it was at #4. 

Now, I just checked for the same thing, and found it back down on the 3rd page of search results.

So, for blog-type content, it appears that freshness is a bit of a factor in where it appears in the results. 

Hmmm....curious.

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Wife Swing Dancing at the IAS Christmas Ball

Wife Swing Dancing at the IAS Christmas Ball
Originally uploaded by jetteroheller.

My wife is a whupass swing dancer. At the Christmas Ball of the International Association of Scientologists in DC, swing phenom and instructor Tom Koerner showed up, and started dancing with my wife. She took classes with him years before. When he said, "Damn, you're good - who taught you to dance?", she replied, "YOU DID!" :) And yes, those are the Swing greats, the Jive Aces playing in the background.

It's Blog Action Day: Safeguard and Improve your Environment

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As a part of Blog Action Day, make sure that you apply the above precept from The Way to Happiness, and do your part to Safeguard and Improve your Environment!  Obviously this means different things for different people, but if that means riding your bike in to work, not throwing your lead-acid battery into the ocean, recycling your paper, cutting down on your trash output, helping push through legislation, or whatever - everyone can help make the planet a cleaner place!

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Are Flickr Photos Well-Indexed in Google?

Something I wondered a bit ago, was that with the billions of photos that have been uploaded to Flickr and Photobucket, whether or not all of these photos and their content would actually be indexed in Google.  I had read in a little SEO Best-practices article that someone wrote that utilizing Flickr images could possibly be a good source of inbound traffic for your site. 

But I was then left to wonder whether or not these photos actually get indexed, and whether or not they're used at all. 

So, I just now Googled for "Anti-Psychiatry Demonstration", the title of a Flickr photo on my anti-psych demonstration in DC which I uploaded not too long ago.  And what do you know - the photo in Flickr is right now the number one result for that!  Wouldn't have thought it would be the case, what with so many anti-psych demonstrations happening around the world, but it proved an interesting point on whether or not Flickr content is indexed!

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