If you ask me, the star of Pacific Horizons, the new DVD from Bryan Smith, is Paul Kuthe who is my choice for the Foam Cowboy award, 2007! (if there were such a thing).
Thanks to Bryan for sending me an advance copy of Pacific Horizons and not worrying too much that I’d give it a [...]
How’s this for an insight into madness. . . The new just released Futurama DVD contains this little extra; 22 minutes of Hypnotoad. Yeah, that’s 22 minutes of staring at this image with only momentary breaks for silly spoof advertising. To me, this is one of the funniest things I could [...]
Money, its a crime.
Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that they’re
Giving none away.
- pink floyd
As of today one pound equals about two dollars and seven cents. No wonder the news is [...]
This crazy little gizmo is the Peregrine SPOT Satellite Messenger. “SPOT” is much easier. For about $170 bucks the SPOT gives you a GPS Locater that can send out distress calls, request non-emergency “help” or just send out a quick signal that you are just fine. It can also can send [...]
November
It only believes
In a pile of dead leaves
And a moon
That’s the color of bone
- Tom Waits
Man, It’s been a long November. In late November, Wisconsin is often a brown and black, grey, dingy place. My local lake is still open, but it’s 16F and I’m not up to that today. Now this [...]
Shine on, shine
on, shine on me
Whenever something’s missing
You’re exactly what I need
- Rascal Flatts
So if you’ve been following along here, you’ll know that I’ve had very bad luck with signal lights going back to when I first started paddling. In fact the first strobe I bought was at Canoecopia a few years back. [...]
So for one last trip from port I’ll ship
but next time back I’m swearing
I’ll settle down in my hometown
and go no more seafaring.
Of course we were all happy to hear the crew and passengers aboard the M/S Explorer are back on land and in good spirits. Hearing stories of a passenger ship [...]
