Wildlife and Weather: One Bald Eagle stuck around by the aereation pond until it was almost too dark to see him/her fly away, like about 5 PM. The days are so short that the temperature doesn't have time to change -- it was 10 degrees (F) at 6 PM and 10 degrees (F) at 7 AM.

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In The Community: Somebody's collection of works by a Blackfeet artist was just donated to the Hockaday -- no wonder the director wants those shelves ready before Christmas! We'll announce it to the media soon. Hockaday Museum of Art

Media Watch: Ted Allen of the Fab Five was on NPR today, talking about Christmas dinners. I wasn't really fond of Queer Eye's wedding show the other day -- too extravagent, with less-than-insightful decisions all the way around, but I'll always listen to Ted when he talks about cooking -- he can be a confidence-builder. The Food You Want to Eat, Allen's current cookbook on NPR
Monday Night Football had one of the sorriest games I've ever looked at. The Ravens won 48-3 over the Green Bay Packers in Baltimore, but I'd already seen enough by the end of the first quarter. Interested in the playoffs?
Associated Press report 12/19/05 The two-time defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots clinched the AFC East this weekend, then the Cincinnati Bengals took the AFC North. The Denver Broncos also assured themselves a spot in the playoffs.
After New England blanked Tampa Bay 28-0 on Saturday, improving to 9-5, it eliminated Miami from taking the division crown. The Dolphins fell out of the playoff chase despite a 24-20 win over the New York Jets on Sunday. Denver also won Saturday, beating Buffalo 28-17. That was enough to guarantee the Broncos (11-3) at least an AFC wild-card berth. They lead the West by two games over San Diego, and will clinch the division with one more win or a Chargers loss. Cincinnati's 41-17 rout of Detroit moved the Bengals into the postseason for the first time in 15 years.
Indianapolis and Seattle already were in. The Colts (13-1) have home-field advantage in the AFC, even though their perfect season ended with a 26-17 loss to San Diego. The Seahawks (12-2) took their 10th straight victory, 28-24 at Tennessee, earning them a first-round bye. They own the NFC West title.
I turned the TV over to CSPAN -- Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, chatting about the importance of open networks and widespread universal access to the Internet. He's one of the true founders of the Information Superhighway, who led ARAPNET off of Defense Dept. computers to become the hubless public network we know today, with the World Wide Web being just one branch of it.
I saw a King Kong ad just before I changed the channel -- big deal, except it wasn't for the movie. The product was an interactive game where the user could roam Kong Island playing one of the white guys in the flick, or even being Kong himself. I notice that the movie is doing alright, but with it's $200 Million budget it will need darn near everybody in the world to see it twice before it makes a profit.


Faye Wray (1907–2004), the great Hollywood personality best known for one single movie, although she starred in others.
On the viewing deck of the Empire State Building in 2004 (Left)
Notice that same "look" in the publicity still from 1932 (Right)