Sunday, January 15, 2006
Australian Diver Attacked By Great White Shark Today
Australia has had its second attack in a week, this article came from The Australian THE NATION back PRINT-FRIENDLY VERSION EMAIL THIS STORY Diver escapes white pointer attack by Ryan Emery and Alana Buckley-Carr January 16, 2006 DIVER Bernard Williams never saw it coming -- the 3m shark that...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Australia: Amity Beach Shark Attack Horror
Rescuers Say Pack Of Sharks Chased the Victim Into The Beach. I am an ardent fisherman and I have lived on the Atlantic Coast all my life. One of my areas of interest concerns changing in fish population, as well as changes in feeding behavior. Thanks to the Internet I can follow the data all around...
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Sunday, January 8, 2006
Tempting Frostbite On A Frozen lake (pics)
Took my kids ice fishing saturday. We went out on lake winnipesaukee. I got pics, hehe Going Down To The Lake: This Is a Boat Ramp The Other Nine Months Of The Year Plenty of Ice - Who's Got The Gin And Vermouth? This Is The Ice Shanty With My Kids Putting On Skates My Buddy Bill Putting Out The...
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Friday, January 6, 2006
Yay! My Company Only Lost $97 Million Last Year!!
Four times a year The Suits summon all of the Gorillas off the factory floor and up to the airy sinecure of the Company Conference room to shine graphs at a wall and bore us beyond measure. This is called "The Quarterly Meeting"and it is a form of Industrial Theater made up of equal parts comedy and...
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Thursday, January 5, 2006
The Drunkard's Guide To Online Chat (NC-17)
It is a great tragedy that, while the Government imposes severe and generally reasonable penalties for driving drunk, they have not yet seen fit to protect society from an equally scurrilous and self destructive activity: Surfing While Intoxicated. SWI claims untold victims every day and yet nobody...
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Monday, January 2, 2006
My Personal Rules of Debate
I am by nature an argumentative cuss. I can't help it - when I come into a forum I gravitate to whatever bar-fight is going on at the moment and start swinging stools with the others. Maybe it's a character flaw, I don't know. I love the give-and-take of vigorous debate; I believe it is the anvil...
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Sunday, January 1, 2006
Truly evil joke that proves our culture is dying - or at least sick.
Two Iraqis, Hamid and Muhammed, meet at a coffeehouse. They sit and start catching up on old times. "How is your son Jamal?" asks Hamid. "He just turned sixteen and he became a martyr for the cause in Fallujah." says Muhammed. Hamid shakes his head fondly and says "Ah, they blow up so quickly these...
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Saturday, December 31, 2005
Hawaiian Free Swimming With HUGE Great White (pics)
He's a Moron. That thing is the size of a Mini Van! Note the position of the Pectoral fins: straight down. That means this fish is NOT happy, he's tense and potentially aggressive. Here's another shot for scale, note the hand signal the diver is flashing: For the full story, go here ***UPDATE: for...
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Friday, December 30, 2005
Cultural Cannibalism for Fun and Profit
You have to wonder. Lots of people read books, and most enjoy them. I love to read. But I don't get paid $100,000 a year to do it. Nor should I - that kind of scratch should go to people who actually DO stuff, like run a company or design a bridge. You know, the kind of people who create wealth,...
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Come one and all, the Wake has started!
Just What the hell is "Postmodernism" Anyway? Do you know? Well shit, neither do I. But guess what? It's the major cultural influence over our Art and Literature. It determines what we see, what we read, what we hear. And we don't even know what it IS! Well, whatever it is, it SUCKS. Our art has...
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