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I.  Humor
    . . . more or less, depending on your own taste, or lack of same

• NEW!  Squirrel Meets an Educational Need!  (April 7, 2004)
• NEW!  Squirrel Enters the Real Estate Business.  (April 7, 2004)
• Maybe Goose Should Have Read the Club's Prospectus.  (October 9, 2003)
• Just Desserts.  (October 8, 2003)
• Squirrel Ponders a Concession Speech.  (October 8, 2003)
• Squirrel Muses on Past Glory.  (October 6, 2003)
• Squirrel Deflects an Accusation!  (October 4, 2003)
• Squirrel Visits a Nut Stand! (September 30, 2003)
• Squirrel Speaks Out on the Postponement!   (Ok, fine, he thinks out, since he only gets thought balloons, not speech balloons.)  (September 15, 2003)
• Squirrel Gets Culture!  Too much of a good thing?  (September 12, 2003)
• Squirrel's New Poll!  Polling IS a tricky science.  (September 12, 2003)
• Squirrel Confronts a New Challenge!  (September 10, 2003)
• What's Up?  (September 9, 2003)
• Squirrel Throws Down the Gauntlet.  Feisty critter.  (September 7, 2003)
• Squirrel is Leading in the Latest Poll?  (September 5, 2003)
• Squirrel's Campaign Daydream.  (September 4, 2003)
• If Cruz Wins (revisited).  (September 3, 2003)
• Debate Schmebate.  Squirrel is NOT being manipulated into THAT. Eighth in a silly series.  (September 2, 2003)
• A Conundrum of Cost Saving.  The bad results of good intentions?  (September 1, 2003)
• Squirrel's Press Conference.  Answering the hard questions.  Seventh in a silly series.  (August 31, 2003)
• Squirrel Hones His Message.  Squirrel is nothing if not derivative. Sixth in a silly series.  (August 30, 2003)
• Squirrel Confronts the Issues -- 3.  Third in the series within the silly series.  (August 29, 2003)
• Squirrel Confronts the Issues -- 2.  Second in the series within the silly series.   (August 28, 2003)
• Squirrel Confronts the Issues -- 1.  First in a series within a silly series.  (August 27, 2003)
• If Cruz Wins ... after the election.  (August 27, 2003)
• Squirrel's California Budget Plan: Strategy Session.  Political/budget junkies will get the gag.  Fifth in this silly series.  (Aug. 27, 2003)
• Squirrel's Campaign Ramps Up!  Assessing the fund raiser.  Fourth in this silly series.  (August 26, 2003)

Squirrel's Formal Portrait

• Squirrel Muscles Up!  Arnold better watch his overdeveloped back. Third in this silly series.  (August 23, 2003)
• Downsizing California's Budget Targets: The Governor's Mansion.  (August 22, 2003)
• The Next California Thing.  The bird is from a trip to the Central Coast ... and modified a bit.  (August 3, 2003)
• Squirrel Works on his Campaign Pose.  Both the candidate and "Gooney the Consultant" are from my photos.  Second in a silly series.  (August 1, 2003)
• Another Candidate Enters the Recall Circus.  I photographed this candidate today.  First in a silly series.  (July 30, 2003)

Squirrel's Campaign Button
Fine, fine, fine ... Squirrel uses doubles and they do NOT all look the same.  So sue me.
Anyway, Squirrel of Capitol Park, like his "candidacy," is more of a concept than a thing in itself.

• Squirrel's New Business.  Lemonade always hits the spot.  (July 20, 2003)
• Night on the Town.  A shameless plug for my favorite frozen yogurt shop.  Another one just for fun.  (July 18, 2003)
• A Horse of a Different Color.  Innovation lives in State Government.  (July 16, 2003)  Among my most popular.
• Accommodations for Man's Best Friend.  Capitol going to the dogs?  Or vice versa.  (July 16, 2003)
• A New Cost Savings Measure.  (July 16, 2003)
• The Big Cheese is a Sport!  Who knew?  (July 16, 2003)
• Spelling Patrol On Duty!  Just for fun.  Not political, nothing to do with budget.  (July 14, 2003)
• Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures!  Nevada leads the way?  (July 5, 2003)
• A Word from Our Sponsor!  (July 3, 2003)  Hey, I have to pay for this effort eventually.
• Important California Genetic Engineering News!  (June 26, 2003)
• The Budget Deadline Looms!  (June 13, 2003)
• Open Meetings!  Another day's work in Sacramento.  (June 10, 2003)
• Another Victim of Budget Cuts.  (June 9, 2003)  Sad.  Very sad.
• Who will arrange a loan for Weasel?  (June 5, 2003)  To appreciate this, you pretty much need to have seen the California Weasel Bucks below.   But maybe even that won't help with this obscure bit of humor.
• Science Lab Loses Another Key!  The story behind the news.  (May 31, 2003)
• The Rally.  Reminisce about the Big Cheese!  First in a really lame series.  (May 29, 2003)
• California Decorative Flamingo Association Fund Raiser.  (May 27, 2003)
• X-ray.  Ever wonder about those machines?  Capitol staffers will recognize the scene.  (May 23, 2003)
• Hey Squirrel!  WSJ article inspires an idea.  (May 23, 2003)
• Science Explains the Budget Impasse? Ok, fine, so now I am getting crotchety. (May 21, 2003)
• The Bridge Loan (May 21, 2003)
• Hey Dog!  Weasel's starting a hedge fund.  (May 20, 2003)  (This one is really silly.)
• Let's Mortgage State Buildings!  Two parts.  Use the "Continue" link at top to see the second one.  (May 15, 2003)
• Budget Creativity  Put on your thinking caps!  (May 14, 2003: "May Revise" day.)
• California Weasel Bucks E Pluribus Deficit/In Weasel We Trust (May 12, 2003) Be patient!  Page will take time to load.
 Like many Californians, Weasel Bucks are non-denominational.  They have no reverse side, since California has had enough fiscal reverses lately.  And they spend just like IOUs!  Print up a few!
• Naming Ceremony  (May 10, 2003)
• Legislative Motto Workshop  (May 9, 2003)
• Hey Skunk!  The Big Cheese is giving appointments (May 9, 2003)
Four parts: use navigation arrows at top to move from one to the next.
• Hey Possum! (May 7, 2003)
Four parts: use navigation arrows at top to move from one to the next.
• The Modern Physics of "String Theory" This one is strictly non-political.  Honest.  (April 29, 2003)

• Adventures of the Capitol Weasel  By special arrangement with the author! (900K pdf file)

• The Capitol Weasel Rides Public Transit  Sort of an actual picture.
• The Capitol Weasel and Friends in the Capitol Corridor (Revised May 7, 2003)
• Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Sacramento (May 6, 2003)

 
• Pink Slip Line Meets Job Fair Line at School  What's wrong with this picture? (April 27, 2003).

• Budget Solutions Workshop: Legislators' Inaction (oops, Legislators In Action) (May 7, 2003)
• Budget Workshop: Brainstorming Session (May 6, 2003)
• Budget Workshop: Backgrounder (May 3, 2003)
• Also see The California Budget Solution! (Quite possibly my most miserable work!)
• Test Time What do school kids and legislators have in common?  (May 2, 2003)
• Budgeting Made Simple  (April 22, 2003)
• This Would Work!  Another budget solution.  Also a miserable example.
• Shazaam!  Budget magic! "Miserable" might be charitable.

II.  Miscellaneous Photography and Graphics

• NEW!  A Harley Rider to be Reckoned With!  Taken on Highway 49, Auburn, CA.  (April 7, 2004)
• Presenting the Flag at the 2003 Draft Horse Classic, Grass Valley, California.  (September 30, 2003)
• Nice Yellow Fish -- photo I took at Monterey Bay Aquarium, July 2003.  It is a yellow tang (I think).  (August 28, 2003)
• Egg Yolk Jelly ("jellyfish" to most folks).  Photo I took at Monterey Bay Aquarium, July 2003.  (August 28, 2003)
• Pacific Grove Shore.  Photo taken in July 2003.  (August 26, 2003)
• Capitol Dome Reflected in a Puddle.  I am rather pleased with this one, taken August 21, 2003.  Note that in order to show the dome right-side-up, the photograph has been turned upside down.  My wife, who has an excellent eye for these sorts of things (and for pretty much everything else), suggested that it was better that way.  Other than that 180 degree turn, resizing,  plus the frame effect (and of course loss of quality from the compressed jpeg format), it is unaltered.  (August 23, 2003)
• Considering a Peanut.  One of my photos, taken on August 21, 2003.  (August 22, 2003)
• Cloud Over Lake Tahoe.  One of my photos, taken on August 1, 2003.  (August 2, 2003)
• Rose.  A simple photograph, with some comments on the camera and the file type.  (July 17, 2003)
• A Walk on the Wild Side of Capitol Park.  You never know what you will see next.  (July 16, 2003)
OK, fine, fine, I do not necessarily see exactly, precisely, what others might see in the park.  It's the vision thing.  You know.
• Peacocks Roaming North Side of Capitol Park.  Another postcard-like image.   (June 2, 2003)
• Feral Flamingos of Sacramento's Capitol Park.  This is a larger version of the first image in a nine-page report that may be found HERE.   That is a 1 megabyte+ Adobe Acrobat PDF file.  Read about this remarkable wildlife phenomenon.  (May 27, 2003; additional note and reference to 9-page report, May 30, 2003.)  By the way, on this important topic, also see http://www.wetlands.org/networks/Flamingo/FNews06.htm -- not part of my site, but worth a look for those interested in flamingos in the wild.
•  Squirrel Central.  A playful impression.  Each of these little guys started as a separate photo taken during the same visit to Capitol Park.  (May 27, 2003)
• Steel Wind.  A surreal view of the Resources Building, 8th and O, Sacramento. (May 27, 2003)
• Classic Cat.  A friend's charming black and white cat posed for this picture.  I worked over the photo to add some effects.  (May 25, 2003)
• Attitudinal Squirrel.  This one got the digital treatment -- but it started as a photo I took on Friday, May 23rd.  (May 24, 2003)
• Civil War Memorial Squirrel.  This is cute -- and a genuine photo, unaltered except for cropping and the added text.  (May 23, 2003)
• Sacramento Squirrel Postcard.  I took this photo in Capitol Park, cropped it, added the text, for a nice postcard look.  (May 22, 2003)
As you will notice, I like squirrels.  It takes a LOT of attempts to get good pictures, since many pictures end up being of half a squirrel, the other half already having jumped out of the frame before I could press the shutter button, or of the back end of a squirrel that was looking at me when I pressed the button to focus.
• Roses.  Based on a recent photo in my own front yard -- substantially modified from the original (May 22, 2003)
• Flag in Breeze.  From a photo taken recently in Folsom, California -- color adjusted, frame added (May 22, 2003)
• Here's Looking at You!  Nice doggy.  This started as a photo, too.  (May 22, 2003)
• Impressionistic view of the west side of California's State Capitol. This started as a digital photo taken shortly before sunrise, and then was digitally processed into something akin to a painting and framed. It is a big file, but people who have seen it seem to like it.  It was a rare fog-free day this January (2003), with a light breeze reflected in the flags. Click here if you would like to see the original image, slightly cropped but otherwise unmodified.  Click here for the processed image without the framing (it makes nice wallpaper for the PC).
• Life goes on in Capitol Park, budget crisis notwithstanding.  Quirky postcard.
• As it does on the Streets of Sacramento Silly but cute.
• Nice day to take a picture  Ditto.

 

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