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19 Aug 2008 Click Here	The ultimate d20 Looking for a little something over the top for that geek of yours? Can't decide what to get? Have some money to burn? How about a $200 d20 carved from a meteorite?!? Crystal Caste: Extraordinary Dwarven Stones
19 Aug 2008 Click Here	Strobist Humor. I'm pretty sure my family will relate to this.
18 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: What we know and what we think. Thank you, Google, for letting me "borrow" a few maps to create this graphic illustrating where Grandpa's truck was found. What we know: --A neighbor visited Grandpa at his home in rural Winfield, KS (top right corner of map) at around noon on Friday, Aug 1, 2008 and dropped off some groceries for him. Nothing appeared unusual about his physica ...
16 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: A few more links GS (my much mentioned, much appreciated Good Samaritan) found and sent me the news link for the Ponca City News: http://www.poncacitynews.com/templates/311073120090084.bsp I also want to mention that the North Central Reporter picked up one of the Newscow stories and has posted a nice red flashy banner on their top page linking to it. To get to Th ...
16 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: Watching the news My cousins and some good Samaritans have been working on getting more exposure for Grandpa's story in the Oklahoma media. I had contacted several Oklahoma media outlets when we first started searching for Grandpa, but I received little response. Thankfully, their efforts have proven much more effective than mine and the story is starting to pop up ...
16 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: Scene Photos I have posted a big stack of photos of the area in Oklahoma where Grandpa's truck, a 1999 dark blue Ford Ranger was found on the morning of Aug 2. Some of the shots were sent to me by a good Samaritan, others were sent by my cousins who live in Oklahoma. You can click on any of the photos to link back to my flickr posts of these shots and view larg ...
15 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: "Missing" Poster Update The Cowley County Kansas Sheriff Department has updated Grandpa's official "Missing" poster. Since the truck has been found (on Aug 2), they removed the photo of the truck to help stress the point that we are only now only looking for him, not his truck. Here is the new poster: There have been calls coming in from good citizens all over the country ...
14 Aug 2008 Click Here	Bragging Rights Remember that trip I took out to Washington last March? ( Click here to refresh your memory. ) Remember all the photos I took while was out there? ( Click here to see some of my flickr photos from the trip. ) Well, one of them has met with some success. The first print of it was a huge 55x55inch version that ended up as a living room decorati ...
13 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: The Good Samaritan Factor It has been 12 days since Grandpa disappeared. Unfortunately, I don't really have any new evidence to share with you today. However, if Grandpa's disappearance is a cloud, then the silver lining has got to be all the amazing people, most of them complete strangers with no obligation to act, that have gone to great lengths to hel ...
13 Aug 2008 Click Here	Warp drive, here we come An article on Space.com discusses some new ways in which warp drive might be achieved: "two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light."
11 Aug 2008 Click Here	Still Searching for Grandpa Jack Lee Howe It has now been 10 days since he went missing, and we are still looking for Grandpa. We are all feeling the intense burden of it. After this long, we know it would be a miracle, but we are all still praying that he is found safe and sound. It doesn't make it any easier that I am so far away from where he went missing and where ...
09 Aug 2008 Click Here	A Day Away This is been a rough week. I have been spending a lot of time doing everything I can think of to get Grandpa's photo and story as visible as possible. The stress is taking its toll on me and I feel physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted.I am shooting a wedding in Manti, UT in two weeks. I had never been there before, s ...
08 Aug 2008 Click Here	Jack Lee Howe Still Missing: Help Us Spread the Word. This poster is an update from yesterday's poster. I added that he was wearing a blue ball cap, and at the suggestion of the sheriff's office, added the Cowley County Sheriff's Office phone number.We are asking any willing volunteers to print and distribute this poster anywhere and everywhere. He has now been missing a full w ...
07 Aug 2008 Click Here	Jack Lee Howe: Update of Clothing Description Based on a review of the footage taken at 9pm Friday, August 1 by a surveillance camera at the Dillon's Grocery Store in Winfield, KS, we have an updated description of the clothes he was last seen wearing.Light blue jeansLong-sleeved Royal Blue ShirtRed SuspendersClick here to access my flickr page and download a larger size image of this Miss ...
06 Aug 2008 Click Here	Searching for Jack Lee Howe: Retracing His Steps Wednesday was a pretty good day for gathering information. The Kansas detective working Grandpa's case spent a good chunk of his day in Oklahoma going over Grandpa's truck. This is what we found out.One of the most vital finds in the truck was a discount card for Dillon's grocery store. A scan of the discount card reve ...