My friend Kristin asked if I’d seen Meet the Press. I hadn’t. Now I have. Police working in NOLA have begun killing themselves and turning in their badges. Certainly, this work is more than just a regular day’s work. Still, there are some glimpses of hope in all of this. Small ones. Very small.
I just saw this posted on Boing Boing. It’s a way to donate time without going to NOLA. It involves taking unstructured information and putting it into a standardized form so that it’s easier for people to search for loved ones. I think I’m definitely going to donate at least an hour or two to doing this.
Rachel went down to volunteer in NOLA and is blogging about it. I have a lot of guilt having left Memphis on Sunday morning and Nashville on Monday morning, ahead of the hurricane the whole way. I’m glad Rachels are doing so much.
Whoah! So the guy who exposed himself on the subway a few weeks ago has been identified and arrested. What’s really weird is that he is a co-founder and owner of a raw food eatery in New York called Quintessence. His name is Dan Hoyt, and here’s his bio:
Apparently, Mr. Hoyt thinks this is no big whoop. He received 2 days of community service for doing the same thing at the same station in 1994. I hope people don’t keep eating this guy’s food. I mean euuuw!! Thanks to the reader who shared the update with me.
As a power-surfer, I feel compelled to share some of the links I’ve found most useful or interesting. As a map addict (oddly, a map addict with no sense of direction), many of these links are to maps of the region since Katrina hit:
Lastly, I’m here with tears streaming down my face. Download these two videos (Thanks, EJ) and watch them:
