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DIY combo alcohol/twig camping stove
I’m planning on going on a canoe trip with my buddy East Texas Red this summer, assuming we get enough people vaccinated against COVID-19 that travel and camping remain a reasonable possibility. I’m the cook on this adventure. Much of the cooking will be on… Read More
COVID shopping fails
Grocery stores are making some effort to disinfect shopping carts between use, but that effort varies widely. The last time I shopped at my local No Frills (that’s Jeff, Rose and Herb’s No Frills at Lake Shore and Brown’s Line in Long Branch), the kid… Read More
The Net
I asked my brother if I could borrow his landing net for my canoe trip to Quetico this summer. Most of my fishing is fly fishing in streams for trout and I have a small net that hangs from the back of my fishing vest.… Read More
Bigness
I was out and about this morning and stopped in at a grocery store on my way home. When I came out of the grocery store, I didn’t see my car, a little Honda Fit, in the lot. It was obscured by the vehicle which… Read More
The Tardis
The TARDIS (/ˈtɑːrdɪs/; Time and Relative Dimension in Space. Doctor Who fans will all know a Tardis is a combination time machine and spacecraft. The Doctor, who is a Time Lord, has one that looks like a vintage 1960s police booth from the outside. A… Read More
Bell Media trashes Newstalk 1010
Bell has shit-canned 200+ employees including many on-air personalities at Newstalk 1010 (CFRB), half from newsrooms. This action was part of a so-called “streamlined operating structure”. At Newstalk 1010, it appears they have trashed the entire newsroom, reporters and all, and it looks like they… Read More
World’s Largest Model Railroad
wow!
There are other worlds….
Sun Ra and the Arkestra recorded a song on the album Lanquidity called There Are Other Worlds (they have not told you of). I grew up thinking the work-a-day world, the world in which every day you get up and head to work,insert yourself into… Read More
Whole Foods bans poppies – yikes!
Back before I stepped away from the work-a-day world, I did PR and Communications work for a number of years. I don’t think much about that kind of stuff these days, but every now and then some organization does something so bone-headed and ill-advised, it… Read More
