I’m still of very mixed opinion about dogs on trails, but my sister and brother-in-law often take their dog, Max, along with them with apparent success. In any case, they’ve decided that Max needs to start carrying his own weight, so he is now the proud owner of his own backpack.
For the gear conscious [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Posted in Outdoors on May 30th, 2008
The day after the birds discovered the feeder, I discovered just how messy birds are when it comes to eating. They regularly hurl seeds away to find their favorites (like children picking between vegetables). Deft beaks make short work of shells allowing them to shower down to the ground. Some of this [...]
Posted in 50 Classics on May 29th, 2008
Time for another selection off the slowly shortening list of “classics”. I’m thinking one of the following:
War and Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
Les Miserables
Why? Because I have them on hand. :-)
Posted in Outdoors on May 23rd, 2008
Not sure why, but the storm we had this afternoon hit my patio particularly hard. The plants took a bit of a battering, but I’m hoping they’ll bounce back. The one exception is the Squash plant which presented two more blossoms (for a total of three) in response to the pummeling.
On an unrelated note, I [...]
Posted in Site Information on May 23rd, 2008
Got the Lightbox effect back up and running on my galleries and re-skinned said galleries to match the main blog site. At some point I probably need to go through all my plugins and widgets and get them updated to Wordpress 2.5+.
Posted in Reviews, Technology on May 20th, 2008
So on my comp day off, I decided to swing by Skate Escape, a bike shop near Piedmont Park in Atlanta. A few months ago, after some calling around, I concluded that they were the only bike shop in town that appeared to be interested in carrying the upcoming line of Schwinn Electric Bikes. [...]
Posted in 50 Classics on May 20th, 2008
If I was looking for a pick-me-up after the likes of The Sound and The Fury and Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary was not it. The novel is definitive Realism, polishing no edges and pulling no blows. I kept finding myself checking the original publication date and wondering how it didn’t start a [...]
Posted in Outdoors on May 19th, 2008
I returned to Atlanta yesterday from Savage Gulf Canyon in Tennessee (having not been eaten by bears). For those not familiar with SGC, it is part of the South Cumberland Recreational Area about 70 miles northwest of Chattanooga, TN. A few years ago, I went on a three day hike and covered a challenging [...]
Posted in Outdoors on May 16th, 2008
Among the Avian Mafia that visits my feeder is an elusively swift Carolina Chickadee. I haven’t been able to capture a photo of him, but here is a stock image from Wikipedia for reference. At about half the size and weight of his neighbors, he makes even the small finches look large in comparison. [...]
Posted in Bush on May 15th, 2008
Bush Compares Obama to Nazi Sympathizer
(Huffington Post) President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the presidential race, but that stance changed dramatically today during his trip to Israel. After likening Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Osama bin Laden, Bush compared Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers:
“Some seem to believe we [...]
