This is an attempt to show how the landscape of the old Tono site has changed in the decades since it was an actual town. Here is a good a picture as any to show the general flat nature of the town in the early part of the last century (from UW Digital Archives): Here…
Month: March 2011
Tono, in 1920 population perspective
From the Fourteenth census of the United States, Volume 1, a look at Thurston County and how Tono compared at its most bustling: Olympia 8,537 Tenino 1,420 Yelm 1,224 Tumwater 1,197 Rochester 942 Rainier 776 Tono 625 Bucoda 517 Certainly less than what I assumed when I set out to make the list, Wikipedia had…
Tono, Washington
If anyone is wondering, USGS Earth Explorer sometimes publishes upside down historic aerial photos, thereby making it easy for people to mistake one town for another. On the original version of this post I used an upside down version of Bucoda, Tono’s neighbor to the northwest. Below is the real Tono, circa 1941, well past…
One Billion by Congratulations (in which I try to become a music blogger)
From Congratulations on Bandcamp: Congratulations is a four piece band from Olympia, Washington. The group consists of Jordan Ingram on piano and lead vocals, Abigail Ingram on bass guitar and backing vocals, Matt Buscher on guitar, and Chad Austinson on drums. The band has been described as “moody indie rock with occasional meanderings into jazz and country,…
American Celtic clubs (Happy Saint Patrick’s Day)
Celtics and Celtic hoops are not an uncommon soccer team name across the world. Most popular obviously is Glasgow Celtic, but there are even some American Celtic teams sprinkled across the Northeastern United States. Jersey City Celtics lasted five games. Brooklyn Celtic lasted several years (eventually transforming into Brooklyn St. Mary’s Celtic) and even won…
Olyroads.com, certainly bigger nerds than I am
Their response, certainly parsing it more than I did. Point taken though: It appears you’re describing the differece between a native app (compiled and installed on a device) compared to hybrid and web apps. All three as classified as mobile apps. Wikipedia describes a mobile app as “…software which can be used on a mobile…