Nov 24 2008
I‘m blogging this so I can prove I knew him when.
My dear friend Liz is mama to four incredible kids, but this post is about Donovan, the eldest. He and Jason hit it off hugely when we visited them in New Zealand three years ago, and we’ve watched him grow up from afar, his own [...]
Nov 18 2008
On Cap’n Richard Rodriguez’s superlative Bitter End blog, we find this:
http://captrichardrodriguez.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-piracy-news.html
A hijacked supertanker with two British crew members was being taken to a Somali port this afternoon after pirates seized their biggest vessel yet off the African coast. Acts of piracy in the shipping lanes of the Arabian Sea have become increasingly violent and commonplace [...]
Nov 17 2008
From the Geek Files, this seems thoroughly useful. You folks who are out in the world will have to report back and tell me if that’s so.
BareSite: Browse Faster
If you frequently browse web from dial-up, mobile phone or any other device with a slow internet connection then make sure to check out BareSite. This handy [...]
Nov 13 2008
The Navy gets to use all the sonar they want, because it’s a matter of vital national security. Right? Here and here.
Next thing you know, one of these myopic bastards is gonna make the whales remove their shoes before migrating.
HT: Jonathan and Franziska
Nov 05 2008
From the site, http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-081002-1.html,
Sea Shepherd is very excited to announce that on Friday, November 7th Animal Planet will premiere Whale Wars at 9 PM ET/PT in the US, and internationally in early 2009.
During Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Migaloo in 2007/08, Animal Planet had a camera crew on board a campaign [...]
Nov 04 2008
Yesterday, a boat down the dock from us caught on fire, and burned pretty thoroughly. The hull might be salvageable, the contents are destroyed, and the owner’s dog, who was asleep inside at the time, died.
We’re all pretty devastated. Jason and I talked about it last night, and while I was not going to blog [...]