When a blog is not enough

While talking with dad on the phone about the post I did contrasting "Pride and Prejudice" with "Brokeback Mountain," dad discovered my Blogger profile was the number one result for callie white (though not "callie white"). Well, if people are reading and linking you're sure doing it quietly.

At any rate, one of the sites I stumbled across is a sit that seeks to create a network that uses a web crawler to pick out people's names, titles and companies and complile them into a database. I am the number one result for "Callie White" on that site though also the only one. It cites 206 sources for deciding I'm worthy of an independent profile, most of them Gateway stories. They are a fairly random sample, but if you are interested here are some gleanings of non-Tacoma Narrows Bridge weekly updates.

An education story about censorship in two local high school newspaper: http://tinyurl.com/fdey6

People hate tolls, and although I didn't need a public meeting to tell me that, I was a little surprised with the level of heckling (even one of the anti-toll people got heckled): http://tinyurl.com/k8tss

Sometimes as a reporter, especially if you work in a small community, it is easy to get annoyed when land use issues drag on for an interminable amount of time. Obviously these issues are massively important to local property owners, but as a non-night owl when meetings go on for more than two hours I get a little testy and stories pop out that read like this: http://tinyurl.com/hkc7p

This was an award winner (for humorous article) that needs some editing, in retrospect, to keep the humor tighter: http://tinyurl.com/kecdm

Here's a cool artist and her story did a nice life-art symmetry thing: http://tinyurl.com/fztjx

The lede is good on this one, even if it's a generic local-girl-makes-good (and, to be fair, judging by how nice her parents' house was, they had the resources to make sure she could do good in her chosen field): http://tinyurl.com/zx4gb

WWII vets are my bread and butter. This story is complicated by having three equal narratives — and fascinating ones — but not only did the structure come out pretty well, I think it's pretty exciting and moving: http://tinyurl.com/h3vka

Here's a daredevil for you. This lady is a hoot, and this is my only feature to run on the Sports pages to date: http://tinyurl.com/zenus

This old column is on the display case of a local deli, which is an ego boost to me but also, considering the topic maybe depressing?: http://tinyurl.com/jatqt

This column takes on a *very* controversial topic and takes a really hard stance (just kidding!): http://tinyurl.com/ecbdv

This column really could have used some editing because I sound like a complete idiot in the beginning, making no sense, but at the end it finally comes together: http://tinyurl.com/hffgz (I was writing 120 inches a week in stories and doing more in briefs, which leaves the neurons frazzled)

This column is about going to a church sale with Janice, who I just love. A lot more than this column, but I think the details of the weird stuff people donate to yard sales have anthropological value: http://tinyurl.com/gmuwd

Here's a column where I fess up to past weaselishness: http://tinyurl.com/oruhf

This is the column that begat the controversy that caused me no end of pain and suffering. Well, it's basically ended now, and I have emerged with a head held high and a sterling reputation. What divine providence that it is preserved for all eternity here: http://tinyurl.com/p2787

Here are some stories informed by my time in high school volunteering for the Academy of Natural Sciences: http://tinyurl.com/zpmxg and http://tinyurl.com/gznqu and this column http://tinyurl.com/mzn3f

I just love Phyllis Beckley. She and her husband Jim are just amazing people: http://tinyurl.com/mvudh

When I wrote this there were no business stories about WiFi in the press to speak of. I was just obsessed with it since I'd gotten my 12" Powerbook with Airport and miffed at how few places there were I could nip into to get on the web, and apparently that's all it takes to be a journalism visionary: http://tinyurl.com/hetmv

This is the story from spending a day salmon fishing with old salts. Mr. Jerkovich died a couple of days before the story ran, which gives it a little poignancy: http://tinyurl.com/ff874

Here are some seniors talking about the good old days, but with a news angle: http://tinyurl.com/hm6dn

That ought to be enough to hold the most ravenous Monument reader who hasn't already seen these articles.