Sailors
Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It’s the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?
- bowie
When Cassini-Huygens sent back the first pictures of Saturn’s Moon, Titan, it was somewhat shocking.  There in grainy [...]

Veni, vidi, veci
Veni, vidi, veci
(The moon above was yellow)
Music all around her
In my arms I found her
(I was a lucky fellow)
- the gaylords
There is a nice video piece on Freya Hoffmeister on TV3 New Zealand.  You can read the article and watch the video here.  The guy in the clip above of course is Paul [...]

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
So when is a kayak not a kayak and “not a kayak” well, not a kayak?
Kayak.com announced they grabbed $196 million dollars in venture capital to acquire rival company SideStep.   By the way, Kayak.com is a travel site similar to Expedia [...]

Taking it all into consideration
Love’s a game I never win.
I’ve been in very simil’r situations,
Again and again and again.
- macca
To keep your kayak involved in daily life year around in the frozen tundra you certainly have to be creative.  So yesterday we followed up a day of kayak sledding with [...]

 Attempting to hold a video camera while sledding in a kayak leaves few variables.   Dropping the camera, or careening out of control being the most likely options.

 
Of course back in the day, you were happy just to go sledding for the sheer joy of it.

But no matter what weird things you try on a snow [...]

Well I woke up this morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold water
Woke up this morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold
- waits
Just a few days away from the first paddling event of 2008, the annual Fog Bowl held on Jan 1 of each year.  This event has grown quite [...]

So here’s a quick look at 7am.  Here the poor kid has to wait until family shows up before he can open his presents.  He does of course get to dig through his stocking to tide him over. .   Now the waiting has begun. . .
My day begins as soon as I can get this [...]