The Excellent Adventure

I believe, really, really strongly, that the time has come, in fact, probably come and gone, for us to start acting like the ancestors we want to be remembered as, instead of as good citizens. Our children and our grandchildren are not going to appreciate financial inheritance and “security” in a world where food is [...]

Tags: Environment

I found this piece, from the BBC, fascinating to contemplate, as an American: Iran sends ship against pirates Iran has sent a warship to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant shipping from attacks by Somali pirates, Iranian state media has reported. The Iranian force joins ships from the EU, US, India, Russia, Malaysia [...]

Tags: piracy

This past weekend, we worked on the boat. This is not substantively different from most of the prior weekends. As anyone who’s been on one, lives on one, or owns one, can tell you, boats are a continual maintenance project. But yesterday was a little bit different, because we’re finally settling in. We’ve been living [...]

Tags: culling, Moving Aboard, organization

This piece on global warming, from the Guardian, is absolutely nauseating: Despite the political rhetoric, the scientific warnings, the media headlines and the corporate promises, he would say, carbon emissions were soaring way out of control – far above even the bleak scenarios considered by last year’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

Tags: carbon emissions, climate change, Environment, global warming

Over Thanksgiving, we went to visit Jason’s folks, Mom2 and Grandpa Allen. It was a lovely time, and much goodness was had. By everyone else. Me? Upon being told that their aging Compaq had, um, issues, as we say in the trade, I spent two and a half days beating it into submission. The boys [...]

Tags: Lagoon, Maintenance, Waterworld