Comments by Anneliese Ågren

Letter: I sent this to Comcast today

November 27, 2007
What else can we use besides Comcast coastside? I'm so fed up with their service, and customer service, that I'm ready to go without cable entirely. I'll use DSL for internet and then read Coastsider.net all day long. ;) Seriously though, what other providers bring internet and/or cable service Coastside? I could only find Earthlink for internet connectivity as an option. I don't recall if DirecTV is over here?

SF Bay Oil Spill - Info From Surfrider

November 14, 2007
Hi Dot: Yes, failure analysis is valuable, but we were commenting on the finger-pointing, blame-game occurring. I thought of your comment while listening to this report yesterday on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16245002 The double hull question is turned down as a solution, due to it being too expensive to rebuild the world fleet. (!) My question is, How expensive is the price to protect our beautiful world? Another question is, Can we ever get off our oil dependency?…

Mavericks waiting period begins Dec 7

November 13, 2007
How are the invitees chosen?

SF Bay Oil Spill - Info From Surfrider

November 10, 2007
Yes, real nice. Some folks are already pointing fingers when we need to deal with the mess. That was Surfrider's quote about reserving judgement, not mine. An email from Barbara Boxer hit my inbox this morning publishing her letter to the Coast Guard for an explanation as "to why it took an entire day to determine the gravity of this spill." Me, I see it as the Coast Guard was, perhaps, attempting to assess the situation during that day. All efforts were towards analysis, not publicity and communication…

SF Bay Oil Spill - Info From Surfrider

November 09, 2007
(continued...) Also I saw this in the news. It picks on the coast guard, which I am not ready to do yet (I am withholding judgment for now), but some excerpts are below. For the whole article go here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/09/BADRT9K8D.DTL Coast Guard says it took too long to announce size of oil spill Kevin Fagan, Peter Fimrite,Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writers Friday, November 9, 2007 "That is unacceptable," Coast Guard Adm. Craig Bone replied when asked…

SF Bay Oil Spill - Info From Surfrider

November 09, 2007
(continued from above...) To report oiled wildlife: Call the Oiled Wildlife Hotline: 877.823.6926 to report oiled animals or oiled waterways. Oiled LIVE mammals should be reported to the Marine Mammal Center at 415.464-5170. Oiled dead mammals should be reported to the California Academy of Science at 415.289.7325. If you see a single oiled bird, call Lindsay Wildlife Museum at Montclair Veterinary Clinic & Hospital, 1961 Mountain Blvd. , Oakland , (510) 339-8600. If you see evidence of oil affecting…

SF Bay Oil Spill - Info From Surfrider

November 09, 2007
(continued from above...) This update just sent to me by Aaron Tinker of the Marine Science Institute in RWC Please see the attached press release from NOAA and the Press Release/Incident Summary from PRBO Conservation Science below and on their website. Please also check out the SFBJV website over the next day or so for news coverage of the spill (http://www.sfbayjv.org/news.html ). Please distribute. PRBO Press Release/Incident Summary www.prbo.org/cms/452 PRBO's Oil Spill Response Team have been…

SF Bay Oil Spill - Info From Surfrider

November 09, 2007
Here's the latest message from Surfrider. (I have to split it into three separate comments, as it's quite long): Most of all, please stay out of the water this weekend, and do NOT take it on yourself to start cleaning up oil. Contact the appropriate parties below to see how you can help: Contents Where and How to Volunteer Hotlines and Contact Numbers Surfrider's Sunday Beach Cleanup Important Volunteer Information Where and How to Volunteer The environmental group Baykeeper is soliciting volunteers…

Video: First documented kiteboarding session at Mavericks

November 07, 2007
As always, Coastsider, when you publish these video adventures, whether they be kayaking or kitesurfing, you provide me much joy from the strain of my workday. I think I'll go watch this again... :)

Missing 75 year-old wanders a mile and a half from Pumpkin Festival

October 14, 2007
That's the saddest happiest story, I've ever heard!

Album: Pictures from CalTrans Tunnel dig kick-off

September 24, 2007
Driving by the tunnel project tonight, with the one-lane controlled traffic point, work trucks parked on the west shoulder, big equipment filling the pinch of space before the tunnel wall, bright work lights, and men in hard hats, wearing Carhartts, I couldn't help but feel a little turned on. I like a big construction site, and this one's a doozy. :) We need a viewing platform.

Photo: White-tailed Kite at Wavecrest

September 24, 2007
Pretty! I saw one hovering, flapping, and feeding Sunday morning - perhaps this one? :)

Darin’s Tuesday Photo: Ocean from Wavecrest

September 18, 2007
I'd say, "Gorgeous!" but it is, simply, much more than that. :)

600lbs of trash cleaned from Montara Beach Saturday

September 17, 2007
The most unusual thing I found at Tunitas was 35 cans of Bud Light, all "neatly" planted upside-down in a circle, along with their three twelve-pack boxes nearby. Now, the unusual part of this is, if the drinkers were strong enough to haul three twelve-packs of shitty beer down the cliff-face, sober, why couldn't they haul out the empty cans, drunk? And where is that missing 36th can? :)

Darin’s Monday Photo: Anemone at Fitzgerald Marine Preserve

September 04, 2007
GORgeous!

Darin’s Monday Photo: Hawk at Poplar Beach

August 21, 2007
Cool!

Video: Caltrans geologist explains Devil’s Slide

July 29, 2007
Hey guys: I messaged a couple of you privately through Coastsider's messaging feature to take the discussion offline, however, I don't know if you never received my message, or did, but don't want to respond. :) I messaged you to say that I'm writing about Highway One and would hate to regurge the same old story as mentioned several times above. I will go to the HMB Library, as Carl did say they have an extensive collection of reports made over the decades that speak towards a dewatering and reinforcement…

Video: Caltrans geologist explains Devil’s Slide

July 25, 2007
I love this video. It sure does explain everything. Thanks for the repost.

Humboldt squid spotted in Monterey Bay

July 25, 2007
Nightmares! You couldn't make this up, could you? "A mysterious sea creature, up to 7 feet long, weighing up to 100 pounds, with thousands of sharp barbs on its arms. It hunts in packs of hundreds, flying through the water at 25 mph, changing color." Egads! =|

Photo: Radar tracking station enveloped by fog

July 18, 2007
UFOs do exist.

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