This week’s Links of the Week theme is… pictures.
- Bush’s Historical Approval Ratings
- Toys manufacture in China
- Awesome Military Photos of the Twin Towers
- Pictures of Walls
- US Poverty Map
One Man’s Weekly Links – September 28, 2007
About John P.
John P. is a former CEO, former TV Show Host, and the Founder and Wizard behind Texas Metal Works. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Feel free to send shoutouts, insults, and praise. Or Money. Money is good.
Not much has changed in Guangdong in the last 12 years. I visited a few factories in Guangdong in 1996 as part of a business class and was amazed at how little they invest in equipment including safety equipment. I guess if you have a billion people to throw at industrial efforts you don’t need either. At least the workers look to be over 12 years old.
Very good, thought-provoking links today, John! (And tear-inducing…)
I saved the 9-11 photos as a PDF on my machine. They were amazing, in the most heartbreaking of ways.
I have a ‘STOP Hammertime’ right around the corner from me! A few of us Punkymoms (one of my favorite forums) were all sharing ours – it was so interesting to see them from all over the country!
Totally off-topic: I was telling hubby about your blade smithing and showing him the pictures and the creep drooled all over my keyboard! Ha! He’s a knife junkie! I love the sculptures, myself – if you could teach Mark to make me some roses by Valentine’s, that would be great! ;)
Hi, it is my real name. Native American actually. I am named after my Great Great Great Grandmother. :)
Well, on the bright side… it kept you out of the traffic!
I was actually sick at home. Worst case of the flu I’ve ever had.
Oh, I meant to say… that is a totally awesome name. I really love it. “Tsoniki”… it sounds kind of Greek or maybe Japanese.
Is that your real name, or just your handle – and if not your real name, how did you come up with it?
John
Tsoniki,
It’s it interesting that we are sometimes quite oblivious to what is right before our eyes? When you are exposed to something long enough, such as growing up in an impoverished area, you don’t really notice it. It’s just “normal”, and that doesn’t stand out.
John
Yes, it’s interesting isn’t it Tom. Of course I’m not sure if it can entirely be attributed to being fickle. It seems like people’s impressions changed pretty radically over time after hearing so many “Bush-isms”, and then really took a turn as he got hammered for never finding the WMDs that we were assured were there…
John
Yeah Frank, I heard stories about it later from a few folks, but I never visited it when I was up there or anything. Of course on that day I was over at the CW building in Reston only a few miles from the Pentagon. You were probably over in Tyson’s that day.
Do you remember the traffic that day? You know my 60 mile commute back to Columbia took me nearly 4 hours because the beltway was such a mess.
John
Thanks for posting these JP. The very first picture in the Twin Towers set looks like one of the “Amex” buildings, which housed the SVVS offices at the time. Not sure if you ever spoke to any of the folks up there about “that day”, but they definitely had some wild stories. BTW-I joined SVVS 3 weeks later.
On the poverty map, where SD has the 90-100%, I grew up there. It’s just always hard for me to see that, I know it is true but my family didn’t experience it so it never feels true.
The Bush popularity graph is interesting, the things that made him most popular are the things that make him unpopular now. Fickle people.
Excellent photos of twin towers.