My Trip To Yellowstone

I took a workshop in Yellowstone examining the relationship between prey species and scavenger species.

I was the only one who KNEW that "coyote" is properly pronounced with two syllables, not three.

But does it make more money than Starbucks?

A Good Read

It's a good detective story and provides some insight of the day-by-day practive of Buddhism.

The sequel, "Bangkok Tattoo" is also fun.

Death By Chocolate

Seated in individual compartments, twelve chocolate bullets lay waiting to be bitten into. Although eleven of the sweet little slugs contain delicious praline centres, one conceals a seriously red hot chilli that's guaranteed to blow your head off - metaphorically, at least.

Want It!

This is cool enough to make me want to build a fireplace in my house.

Good idea, bad beer.

The First Mac OS X Virus? (A New OS X Trojan

Update: It appears that there is some debate about the classification of this application, and as it does require user activation, it appears to fall into the Trojan classification, rather than self-propogating through any particular vulnerability in OS X.

What Carried The Girls Away

This is interesting science:

" . . . , Oster began searching for data on hepatitis B and sex ratios. She found that among Alaska natives in the 1970's, there were both a high rate of hepatitis B and an overwhelming number of boys born. With the help of statisticians, she confirmed that when the hepatitis B vaccination became available in Alaska in the early 80's, the gender balance was restored. "

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How much would you pay for this coat?

I worked (poured wine) at an artists reception at the Holter Museum. This is one of the pieces of "wearable art."



It is made from indoor/outdoor carpeting and children's toys.



It sold for $1000.

If you get passed by a small green convertible with a husky in the back, this is me.

Cuteness Alert! Puppy Mover Monorail

10 Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You.

This sign has always been one of my favorites.

The Most Romantic Valentine's Day Story Ever.

The little old couple walked slowly into McDonalds that cold winter evening. They looked out of place amid the young families and young couples eating there that night. Some of the customers looked admiringly at them. You could tell what the admirers were thinking. "Look, there is a couple who has been through a lot together, probably for 60 years or more!"

The little old man walked right up to the cash register, placed his order with no hesitation and then paid for their meal. The couple took a table near the back wall and started taking food off of the tray. There was one hamburger, one order of french fries and one drink. The little old man unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half. He placed one half in front of his wife. Then he carefully counted out the french fries, divided them in two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife.

He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them. As the man began to eat his few bites of hamburger the crowd began to get restless. Again you could tell what they were thinking."That poor old couple. All they can afford is one meal for the two of them."

As the man began to eat his french fries one young man stood and came over to the old couples table. He politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple to eat. The old man replied that they were just fine. They were used to sharing everything.

Then the crowd noticed that the little old lady hadn't eaten a bite. She just sat there watching her husband eat and occasionally taking turns sipping the drink. Again the young man came over and begged them to let him buy them something to eat. This time the lady explained that no, they were used to sharing everything together.

As the little old man finished eating and was wiping his face neatly with a napkin the young man could stand it no longer. Again he came over to their table and offered to buy some food. After being politely refused again he finally asked a question of the little old lady. "Ma'am, why aren't you eating. You said that you share everything. What is it that you are waiting for?"


She answered, "The teeth."


Happy Valentine's Day!

This is part of a 10x30 foot student mural of animals watching Lewis and Clark.

I think they are otters.

Why Johnny Can't Spell.

Because his teacher can't be bothered to check the spelling of "ETIQUETTE" before it becomes a classroom rule.

Why Johnny Skips Science Class.

The experiments are a bit rough.

Conrad Burns courts more controversy

Someone from Sen. Conrad Burns' office apparently edited the senator's entry on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia in January to remove a controversial remark he had made about Arabs, the Web site reported Tuesday.

Among the questionable edits were the ones coming from an IP address linked to Burns' office. Wikinews attempted to contact the senator's staff about the changes, but phone calls were not returned.

The detail when you zoom in close is amazing.

In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing.

How about if YOU "take one for the team" ?

"Then they said something like, 'But what if people could die?'

And she answered that, 'We just have to take one for the team.'

A Bully Good Read!

After he lost the presidential election of 1912, Teddy Roosevelt embarked on an ill-prepared trip down an unknown river in the Amazon. The months-long journey was so difficult that President Roosevelt planned to commit suicide.


Read it now before the bugs of summer make you feel like you are just a little too close to the jungle insects of the Amazon.

Everyone wants to be a photographer.

I can't even sell pictures OF my dog much less pictures BY my dog.

Sometimes the old drugs are the best.

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Can you find the BYU student?

Emperor Mike of the Death Cheese Bus

A Staten Island school-bus driver treated his passengers like prisoners in a penal camp, deputizing pre-teen enforcers to rough up rowdy students on board and dubbing himself "The Emperor," police charged yesterday.

Michael Cianci, 38, of Parlin, N.J., named his ride the "Death Cheese Bus" and assigned ranks to his sixth-grade charges, forcing them every day to recite a set of rules posted by his cup-holder, according to the criminal complaint.

The 12-tiered ranking system ran from "Lord (apprentice of the Emperor)" to "Sped," a derogatory term for someone in special-education classes. Other ranks included the Star Wars-themed titles "Darth," "Sith Warrior" and "Jaba."

"As hereby proclaimed by Emperor Mike of the Death Cheese Bus, unit five, sector seven of the gamma system, these laws are laid down upon us to hold order and restore power," the bizarro list of rules stated. "The penalty for breaking this code is banishment. And for a ranking of master or above, the penalty is death or severe beating."

The list specified that the emperor was the supreme leader, accountable to no one, that all lords must obey "Lord Matt," the Darths must obey all lords, and the masters follow the commandments of the Darths.

The wacko treatise closed with the ominous proclamation: "Mercy will not be tolerated."

Investigators said the reign of the "Death Cheese Bus" began last Nov. 1, when two 11-year-old students at IS 34 in Tottenville told their parents about the on-board shenanigans. The parents reported it to police.

Detectives arrested Cianci at the 123rd Precinct on Wednesday. He was released yesterday on $500 bail.

Cianci declined to comment after his arraignment, but his family leaped to his defense.

"My son is just a big, law-abiding, working slob," his mother said. "Whatever happened, it's either a mistake or an irate father trying to make trouble."

One more round of pictures

The Sleeping Giant at sunrise

Dizzy video of Race To The Sky

One of the interesting things about the start of a sled dog race is that when the dogs are "in the chute" and waiting to start they are all barking and singing. But as soon as they start to run they get quiet.

The only sound you hear of an approaching sled dog team is the sled runners sliding over the snow. (And the musher.)


Before you click on the link put your right ear on your right shoulder.

I posted this mainly to remind myself that I don't have the video editing software to flip an image 90 degrees.

Race to the Sky movie

Here's another short movie of the start of the Race to the Sky.

Suggested Reading

From 1866 through 1969, the Hawaiian and American governments banished nearly 9,000 leprosy sufferers into exile on a peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Mood Rings for Women (and Men)

( I received this from a friend.)

My husband, unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods.

We've discovered that when I'm in a good mood, it turns green.

When I'm in a bad mood, it leaves a big fucking red mark on his forehead.

Maybe next time he'll buy me a diamond.

Good article about the Whitefish brewery

Joys of Ice Fishing

I'm going to ask for a new desk at work.

How to get men to watch a chick flick

You just have to edit the previews to make it more exciting.

To us.

Another reason I'm glad I live in Montana

BEIJING, Jan. 24 -- Sales of adult diapers are booming as residents prepare themselves for long-haul journeys home on crowded trains for Lunar New Year.

NPR Story on a one-room Montana School

Gold Creek is south of Drummond between Butte and Missoula.

Priceless!

13 years of cheer and dance lessons: $50,000
Custom uniform for Rose Bowl Game: $2,500
Tuition to USC: $150,000

Cheering for the opponent on the winning touchdown of the national championship?

PRICELESS!

2006 Things To Do - Visit all of Montana’s Hot Springs Resorts

I need one of these beer-pouring robots.

Emergency Toothpicks

They also sell emergency cufflinks. I could really use those.

New Road Crossing Sign

I followed this coyote for a mile down the road in Yellowstone Park before I finally got tired and knocked it into the ditch

I Bought A New Fishing Car

No need to slow down for deer on the road.

A Sunday Afternoon Hike With The Ladies

Dog kills driver in leap from overpass

The Slanket

A blanket - with sleeves. For the true couch potato.

Crabs in a bucket

A tribal council representative encouraged Whiteman's group to "take matters into their own hand,'' the order said. Brady then led the group to Sonntag, grabbed his arm, and along with others, forcibly removed him from the administration building. Brady forced Sonntag into a van and held him against his will as the vehicle was driven to the Jimtown Bar lot, north of the reservation, according to the judge's order.

Invade Iraq - You are not able to do that yet

Bush's presidency as a text-based roleplaying game.

Want It!

Although it has nothing to do with the story, this is my favorite caption, "John is afraid of cameras so he's closing his eyes in this picture."

Champion Livestock Auctioneer audio

This reminds me of hanging out at the livestock auction with my uncle or my grandfather.

A few pictures from snowshoeing this afternoon

Here is a good site for checking out new music or artists

The listing of artists is on the right-hand side. You can't download but you can listen,

Dog Haiku

I lie belly-up
In the sunshine, happier than
You ever will be.

How do I love thee?
The ways are numberless as
My hairs on the rug.

I am your best friend,
Now, always, and especially
When you are eating.

My human is home!
I am so ecstatic I have
Made a puddle

The cat is not all
Bad-she fills the litter box
With Tootsie Rolls

2006 Things To Do - Visit all of Montana’s Hot Springs Resorts

I’ll let you know if I’ll be appearing at a hot springs near you.



At $200 at night (off season) I hope to visit Potosi with someone very special.

Yellowstone bison fall through ice while being hazed by DOL staff.

Two died.

The link is to a Buffalo Field Campaign movie.

Downtown Missoula to get whitewater

This will be a fun place to hang out and watch kayakers.

What is the difference between Martin Luther King Day and St. Patrick's Day?

On St. Patrick's Day everyone wants to be Irish.

Google Earth - Now for Macs too!

Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. (requires free download)

You can zoom in and see Nica in the flowerbed in my back yard.

Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood

On the surface it is an innocent world: Christopher Robin, living in a beautiful forest surrounded by his loyal animal friends. Generations of readers of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories have enjoyed these seemingly benign tales.1,2 However, perspectives change with time, and it is clear to our group of modern neurodevelopmentalists that these are in fact stories of Seriously Troubled Individuals, many of whom meet DSM-IV3 criteria for significant disorders. We have done an exhaustive review of the works of A.A. Milne and offer our conclusions about the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood in hopes that our observations will help the medical community understand that there is a Dark Underside to this world.

The future of merging your TV and computer is getting closer

CBS (and the NBA) are now selling shows online. The stupid marketing part is that there is no description of the show. So unless you know the exact title of the Brady Bunch episode where Marsha drives better than Greg you're going to have to look elsewhere to find it.

With her stomach, great. With my stomach I better keep my shirt on.

Deputies on the hunt for accused killer who escaped from transport van

'According to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Cheryl Liedle, she was notified at about 11 a.m. that 28-year-old Dueston A. Haggard removed his shackles en route to Deer Lodge from Cascade County, and bailed out of the van near the intersection of I-15 and Lincoln Road.

Unfortunately for law enforcement officers, the escape — believed to have occurred at about 7 a.m. — wasn’t discovered until the van arrived at Montana State Prison at about 11 a.m."

I'm guessing that this guy didn't just bail out of the van going 75 mph down the interstate. Early reports said that he had escaped when they stopped at a convenience store.

Now I don't know about you, but one of the things I learned early on was that when you make a bathroom stop, you make sure everyone is back in the car before you leave. That would seem to be particularly important WHEN TRANSPORTING MURDERERS!

THERE IS A GOD!!!

Kevin Smith is making "Clerks II". All bow to the man who brought us such immortal lines as:

Dante Hicks: This is different, this is important. How many?
[long pause as customer buys something]
Dante Hicks: Well?
Veronica Loughran: Something like... 36.
Dante Hicks: What? Something like 36?
Veronica Loughran: Lower your voice.
Dante Hicks: Wait a minute, what is that anyway, something like 36? Does that INCLUDE me?
Veronica Loughran: Ummm... 37.
Dante Hicks: I'm 37?


Well, they're all rude or only make sense in context.

Anyway, Jay and Silent Bob will be back.

This company cures autism AND provides pregnancy tests.

“Scientifically, dolphin sonar positively changes the soft tissue in humans --much like ultrasound. We go to hospitals to have an area of our body receive ultrasound to see what is going on and/or to heal that particular area. That's what dolphins do! They can "see" what's going on inside of us --emotions --physical pain --pins in hips --pacemakers in hearts --and they can tell if a woman is pregnant, by picking up the heartbeat of the baby.“

A novel method for the removal of ear cerumen

Paul and I Went Snowshoeing Today

WIndy on top of McDonald Pass



But warm in the trees. This is Paul's new cabin as soon as I cash his check.

I Don't Think Mrs. Claus Is Going To Like What Santa Brought

I am laughing too hard to think of a clever title.

The Great Escape (almost)

Years ago I remember watching a bull bust through a fence and escape from an outdoor rodeo in Billings. It lived along the river for several months before they caught it.

You Think You Know The English Language?

This is a series of questions about word origins.

I got spanked (5/10) the first time. It's tough But then I got 8/10 (what does the word "chocolate" derive from?)

The questions are always different.

I'll buy a 6-pack of microbrews for the first person who sends me their score page with 9/10.

Why I Don't Watch Much TV Anymore

This is from the Maury Povich show.

Nica Is Home

She is happy, healthier and a little less hairy. They had to shave her belly to do an ultrasound of her liver and her front leg for the IVs. She happens to be a lovely pink color under all that fur. I just hope we don't get any big snowstorms this year because she might get frostbite jumping through snowdrifts.

I need to be watching her closely in case of a relapse and working with the doctors through this next week (which means you won't be getting any pictures from Hawaii.) They still do not have a diagnosis and may not have one until next week. Right now she is on a special food and cannot have ANYTHING but that food. That will be tough on both of us, since she has always helped "clean up" when I am cooking.

I'll update when I know more of if anything happens.

Psychological Christmas Carols

1. Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?

2. Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are

3. Amnesia --- I Don't Know if I'll be Home for Christmas

4. Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me

5. Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants and ...

6. Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me

7. Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire

8 . Full Personality Disorder-- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why

9. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ---Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells ..

10. Agoraphobia --- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day But Wouldn't Leave My House

11. Senile Dementia --- Walking in a Winter Wonderland Miles From My House in My Slippers and Robe

12. Oppositional Defiant Disorder --- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus So I Burned Down the House

13. Social Anxiety Disorder --- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas while I Sit Here and Hyperventilate.

Think Good Thoughts For Nica

Nica stopped eating on Saturday. She may have liver disease and is bleeding in her gastrointestinal tract.

At this time they will be starting supportive therapy to try and get nutrients into her and stabilize her. They will be doing further diagnostic tests to determine the state of any liver damage.

In a best case scenario she will be able to have a good quality of life with medical and dietary supplements.

I should know more by Wednesday afternoon. I’ll keep you posted.

Virtual Bartender II

Now with twice the scantily-clad goodness.

I particularly like the sound effects for, "fight." But I have no idea why the word, "dog" produces the results it does.

New Years Eve Pary 2005

It was a wonderful party. All the jambalaya and gumbo is gone, about a gallon of beer remains.


5 gallons of beer for $25 equals about 50 cents per beer. A pretty good price for the Lewis & Clark Miner's Gold Hefenweizen.


Voted, "Best Wine."

Top 10 Viral Videos of 2005

I don't think it's necessary for anyone to watch the Tom Cruise video again.

But two you must watch are, "Will You Go To Prom With Me" and "Kennedy: Your Momma."