Some Chapters from the Best Golf book ever...

Ch.1 How to Properly line up your 4th Putt.
Ch.4 How to Hit a Nike from the Rough When you Hit a Titleist from the Tee.
Ch.7 How to Avoid the Water When you Lie 8 in a Bunker.
Ch.13 Why Your Spouse doesn't Care That You Birdied the 5th.
Ch.15 How to Relax when You re Hitting 3 off the Tee.
Ch.24 God, and the Meaning of the Birdie-to-Bogey three Putt.

What is this bug?

Got away for the labour day weekend, and took the family to our favourite camping spot on Lesser Slave Lake, 130 miles North of Edmonton. This Lake has the best beaches within a thousand miles. I won't bore anyone with pictures of our camping, but we found this on the picnic table.

What the heck is it?





I emailed an entymologist, Answer: a Pseudoscorpion. A type of spider I didn't know even existed until this trip.

Wistful thinking

Friday's Pibgorn made me bust a gut. I don't think I would ever condone actually shooting useless politicians, if we were successful it would wipe out the species. Aside from the damage to the ecology when you cause an extinction, there are still a few politicians I think are worth saving...

Nevertheless, When you have serving politicos more concerned with obstruction and perversion of the nation's business for political gain cartoonists like Brooke McEldowney really give me a warm feeling...

Can you hear me now? (reprint)

Thanks Roger, for posting it first. I really like what Sondra K had to say too.

History proves appeasement doesn't work. We're never never never never going to 'NICE' the bad guys into peaceful co-existence.

comment spam

Got my first comment spam today. Is there any way to find these people and deal with them?

Zoom all the way in...

While I was away, Google introduced something neat to it's GoogleMaps service. In honor of the July 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing they've gone and given us Google Moon. Try it out.

firefox popups

This is so damn good I have to repeat it here. Hate popups? Didja switch to Firefox because it blocks them? Notice it doesn't always work, anymore? Those nasty bastards who make popups found a way to get around firefox's blocking by using a flash plugin. Pete Blevin has the answer... (found it at Roger's)

1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

The possible values are:

• 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
• 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
• 2: Block popups from plugins.
• 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

hmmm. I've found a site where the popups still appear. Oh well. Zonealarm Pro still blocks them all.

Back from holidays, What's been happening?

I’m just back from holidays, and I’ve been scanning the last month’s news. What the hell has been going on? The IRA swears off violence? Wow. There’s one for the ‘Holy shit!’ category.

On the other side of the ledger however, the old insanity continues. In England terrorists blow up a number of bombs in the London transit system, and in North America the NYPD begins random searches of subway rider’s backpacks in reaction. So naturally the damned ACLU-types launch a court challenge of those searches.

Imagine.

On Lars Larson’s nationally syndicated radio talk show today, one ACLU-symp actually tried suggesting random searches for terrorists would be ok so long as police can’t prosecute if they find evidence of OTHER criminal activity.

The NYPD is looking to protect the public from terrorist subway bombers, and the New York Civil Liberties people are looking to protect… who? Just who the hell is their constituency anyway? Lets think about this for a moment. Who have they protected in the past? Oh yes, child pornographers, drug dealers, and pro jihad terrorist sympathizers in the education system...

Based on their history, I think the ACLU could be declared a terrorist criminal organization.

Enough said, eh?

In other news… Oh, in Israel yesterday Palestinian terrorists bravely killed or injured a number of Palestinian children. The terrorists were actually firing rockets at an Israelis Protest. I think the death of anyone’s child is tragic. Given the historical Palestinian propensity for dressing their children in semtex and sending them out to suicide bomb public places I’m sure those idiots with the rockets only regret those kids wasted deaths. Hopefully they manage to rocket themselves next time.

My job takes me across many rural miles in the north and east parts of Alberta. A few years ago, I was very surprised to find a slowly disintegrating DC-3, aground beside a quiet rural highway about 30 miles NE of Edmonton. I hadn't been this way in quite some while, but this was the first time I had my camera.

This old DC3 isn't in very good shape. Much is missing, but it gave me a neat feelling to be near it. Manufactured sometime between the mid 1930s and the late 1940s, this old girl must have been to many places carrying many things. I took about 40 higher res pictures, 2048X1536 pixels in size. Email me if you want some. Click on the footer at the bottom of the page for my email.

The old bird was right next to this place. Coyote Antiques in Chipman, Alberta.

Control cables, under the cockpit floor.