99 cents well-spent

Yum.

Weekend Plan

Guess who has the perfect backyard for this sort of fun?

Kitten Thinks Of Nothing But Murder All Day

from the Onion

I think I need a fresh windows install.

Seems my computer has read this short story..

 

And the Combaticons Joined together. . .

To form Bruticus, the giant gummi bear of death and destruction

Water Crossing

He didn't fall in, but still got plenty wet.

'I heard the cuckoo with no food in my stomach,

I heard the stock-dove on top of the tree,

I heard the sweet singer in the copse beyond,

And I heard the screech of the owl in the night.

I saw the wheatear on the dyke of holes,

I saw the snipe while sitting bent,

And I foresaw the year would not go well with me.

The Wüsthof Classic

From the Wüsthof website..

Perfectly balanced, an extension of your hand.

Wow, after cutting with dull knives for years this thing is down right scary. Good for murderous rampages too.. If of course you choose to use a knife.


Paper thin, son!

 

Pirate Rafting

From Mike's birthday two weeks ago. . .
The girls impressed everyone with a group jump from the big cliff. . . some of them regretted their less then perfect landings.





















The guys also took the plunge

Ski?

3 Miles

Camera Replacement

I did the normal thing and replaced my old camera with a newer, more expensive one - a Canon Digital Rebel XT. It sure is nice though. . .

hello from Ireland!

Ireland is amazing....and to be honest, I thought I might not enjoy it at all.
I wanted to say hello to the lovely friends I made in Montana!

And to share some local vernacular - I am off to have a bit of crack now.

Meaning - I am going to have some fun.

.org's gone mobile, son!

so I sent this to blogger using my new cameraphone.. If you want to do this, send a picture or text message to go@blogger.com. You will get a message back with an url and a key. Go to go.blogger.com, enter the key in the claim token box, enter the letters to prove you're a human, hit conginure,and select ".org" on the next screen (this is assuming you post here already). Then from now on, pictures or text sent to go.blogger.com show up on .org.. Hopefully the post's will be more exciting than this one... I plan on leaving work soon though, I promise.

Canon S60 vs. Rotweiler

The camera put up a good fight. Nitro chewed it for a while and then left it for dead in the corner of the yard. It held on though. Two weeks later, after several rainstorms, it was recovered and brought into the ER. With a new battery it snapped off two final pictures - and then gave up the ghost.

RIP





(this is the final picture it took)

Happy Weekend

"taking it easy for the rest of us sinners. . . "

Elephant Artillery

Just for Marshall. We had this little Indian guide with us who would randomly light off small BOMBS to scare away the elephants.

Mountain Bike Singapore

At least one country in the world designates trails for other users




























But maybe its because they have gaurd monkeys? or.....















maybe its because they shoot first and ask questions later.

have a good weekend ya'll

 

Dopers suck

Uhhh.....

www.cyclingnews.com/new...

Cute....or guaranteed to give your children nightmares about pig farms?

Alaska

After a couple "bumps" in the road. I made it to Alaska. I left on 6/11 and a fozen debit card and two blown tires later I arrived on 6/15. It was a sweet drive though. 2,570 miles of sweetness.

some random pictures for a random morning...

Daddy long legs fighting

A 40 year old dickel bottle shaped like a golf club and a barista action figurine in a bamboo cup made by belizean prisoners

Another productive day at work

Finally found one. Here is one of the 200 or so minuteman silos up by Great Falls.

Me make big fire

A picture I ran across recently from a month of two ago. The engine and sandbag wall are about 3 ft. tall.

It's what could only be called "people sitting on a plywood platform drinking beer"

Here she be, beached on the shallows.

Day 2 of last weekends trip, camped on the thing and everything. Floating has now been taken to the next level.

High altitude drop..

Ian Keepin' it real

Saddle Peak to the 'M'

So we went on a completely reasonable bike ride today.. Around 6 hours, countless miles of hiking, and some seriously sweet views. A large portion of the ride was above 8000 feet, so my poor sea level lungs were hurting.. But we made it out without any serious injuries or bad weather. Been thinking about sleeping since I got back, but here are some pictures for now..



















Climbing...





Riding the ridge...














All in all, it was a good ride... Got home late and very tired, but content.. More to come

What's new in Providence

Apparently all those times that I was angry about my streets being blocked off....well, it's been due to the filming of the new Showtime drama Brotherhood .


I just realized that I am posting on .org . ooops.

Well, enjoy. It just might not be as funny to you. Or it might be. That show Providence was a hit over in Australia....

I rule

Back in MT, after a horrible allergic reaction things were just peachy.
















I bought a high end steel road bike frame for 15 bucks from a rummage(tag) sale. Some guy was liquidating peoples storage units who went delinquent. Haha, the frame hasn't hardly been ridden, if at all.. Poor derilict storage unit owner..

Murph

 

Maunt Moron

21st birthday

Mae's 21st birthday is tomorrow 6-7. The plan is go to floating in the afternoon, barbeque at our new place, and then most likely a trip to the bars. Our new place is 631 E. Davis. White house on the corner of Davis and Ida, Ida is a one lane gravel alley. All are welcome to come floating and/or barbequing. We'll probably be barbequing around 7 or so, bring something to cook and beer wouldn't hurt either. We'll probably leave to go floating around lunch time, give me a call if you want to go, 599-8286.

6-6-06

precious in the site of the lord is the death of his faithful ones ~psalm 116:15

Beetles are COOL!!

My little bug trip for the summer. June 21 through Aug 3. With stops in Rome-India-Singapore-Malaysia-Borneo-North Vietnam-South Korea. The biggest chunks of time will be in India, Malaysia, and Vietnam, with a couple days in Rome, Singapore (4th of July), and Borneo to climb this mountain http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=10966

And it's all in the name of science to collect beetles for the Beetle Tree of Life Project http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
where my PhD funding is coming from.

Beetles like this--

Just in time...

It's been a crappy day of back pain and Matlab.. And just when things really started to suck I realized I had this puppy in the fridge.. MMMMmmmm..... high fructose corn syrup and caffiene..
Wow, I'm cool