"All I saw was it going over the side, and I wasn't sure what -- 'Holy cow! This sucker's going to go to the bottom,'?" Howlett said Friday. The moose had been running when it popped out of the brush and went over the edge, he said.
"We were kind of horrified. My wife got a short glimpse of it," Howlett said. They did not see it land on the bluff. They circled back, expecting to see the moose on the beach, but instead found it on the steep slope about halfway down.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Interesting Court Case
Detroit, Michigan (AP) - A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him.
After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Detroit Lions, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him.
After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Detroit Lions, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Weather Bulletin from Montana and North Dakota
Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" with a historic
blizzard of up to 24" inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in half, stranded hundreds of motorist in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to tens of thousands.
George Bush did not come....FEMA staged nothing....no one howled for the government...no one uttered an expletive on TV...nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....no one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....no news anchors moved in.
We just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Aladdin lamps and put on an extra layer of clothes.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early...we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
Everybody is fine.
blizzard of up to 24" inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in half, stranded hundreds of motorist in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to tens of thousands.
George Bush did not come....FEMA staged nothing....no one howled for the government...no one uttered an expletive on TV...nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....no one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....no news anchors moved in.
We just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Aladdin lamps and put on an extra layer of clothes.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early...we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
Everybody is fine.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Damn foreigners and their lack of humor
You know that at the time this probably seemed real funny. If you were holding the chain saw.
UM forestry students apologize to band
MISSOULA — Forestry students at the University of Montana have apologized to a visiting Japanese marching band after some residents complained they had threatened band members with chain saws during UM's homecoming parade.
The Forestry Student Association's float was behind the Senshu University Tamana Senior High School Drum and Brass Crops from Kumamoto, Japan, during the Oct. 1 parade.
As thousands watched, some members of the forestry group crowded the rear of the visiting band, brandishing and intimidating its members with chain saws, minus the chains. The group has used chain saws in its floats for years, razzing parade entries in front of them and residents who line the parade route.
UM forestry students apologize to band
MISSOULA — Forestry students at the University of Montana have apologized to a visiting Japanese marching band after some residents complained they had threatened band members with chain saws during UM's homecoming parade.
The Forestry Student Association's float was behind the Senshu University Tamana Senior High School Drum and Brass Crops from Kumamoto, Japan, during the Oct. 1 parade.
As thousands watched, some members of the forestry group crowded the rear of the visiting band, brandishing and intimidating its members with chain saws, minus the chains. The group has used chain saws in its floats for years, razzing parade entries in front of them and residents who line the parade route.
Bet on Jesus
If someone brought these out at a poker game I would make very, very sure to tell them that bluffing is the same as lying in the eyes of Jesus.
And then, because I am not a Christian, I would lie, lie, lie and take all of their money.
Because that's what poker is all about.
And then, because I am not a Christian, I would lie, lie, lie and take all of their money.
Because that's what poker is all about.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Collectis - Automated Boar Collection System
(movie)
I don't know where to start:
1. It's pigs. They collect "stuff" from the male pigs. It's probably NSFW.
2. It's like the MTV version of an industrial film. Cool music, good editing, etc.
3. Did I mention what it's about?
4. We used to play a game on road trips - "Worst Jobs To Do With A Tequila Hangover". This job would make the top 10.
5. Ewwww.
I don't know where to start:
1. It's pigs. They collect "stuff" from the male pigs. It's probably NSFW.
2. It's like the MTV version of an industrial film. Cool music, good editing, etc.
3. Did I mention what it's about?
4. We used to play a game on road trips - "Worst Jobs To Do With A Tequila Hangover". This job would make the top 10.
5. Ewwww.
Dan caught a fat 19 inch rainbow on the Missouri
We spent our Columbus Day holiday floating the Missouri, catching fish and eating ham sandwiches on a fallen log while staring at the Tobacco Root mountains in the distance and listening to cranes and geese.
Hope you had a good holiday too.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
I always hated those little blue things
The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.
Saturday, October 08, 2005
A Bad Day Fishing Is Better Than A Good Day At Work
Well, not always.
"I was fishing when the line got snagged on something and as I pulled it, I just felt something hit me on the face and knock me to the floor," said Mr Williams.
"To be honest, I didn't know what had happened, but when I put my hands to my face they were covered in blood."
Complete with x-ray goodness.
"I was fishing when the line got snagged on something and as I pulled it, I just felt something hit me on the face and knock me to the floor," said Mr Williams.
"To be honest, I didn't know what had happened, but when I put my hands to my face they were covered in blood."
Complete with x-ray goodness.
Friday, October 07, 2005
Thursday, October 06, 2005
The Ig Nobel Awards are out!
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 6, at the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. You can watch archived video of the live webcast.
AGRICULTURAL HISTORY: James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand, for his scholarly study, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers."
REFERENCE: "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers: Reflections on an Aspect of Technological Change in New Zealand Dairy-Farming between the World Wars," James Watson, Agricultural History, vol. 78, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 346-60.
PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
MEDICINE: Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.
REFERENCES: US Patent #5868140, and the book Going Going NUTS!, by Gregg A. Miller, PublishAmerica, 2004, ISBN 1413753167.
LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.
ECONOMICS: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?
REFERENCE: "Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?" American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Brian Gettelfinger and E. L. Cussler, vol. 50, no. 11, October 2004, pp. 2646-7.
FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 6, at the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. You can watch archived video of the live webcast.
AGRICULTURAL HISTORY: James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand, for his scholarly study, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers."
REFERENCE: "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers: Reflections on an Aspect of Technological Change in New Zealand Dairy-Farming between the World Wars," James Watson, Agricultural History, vol. 78, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 346-60.
PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
MEDICINE: Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.
REFERENCES: US Patent #5868140, and the book Going Going NUTS!, by Gregg A. Miller, PublishAmerica, 2004, ISBN 1413753167.
LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.
ECONOMICS: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?
REFERENCE: "Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?" American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Brian Gettelfinger and E. L. Cussler, vol. 50, no. 11, October 2004, pp. 2646-7.
FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
Monday, October 03, 2005
It's probably a good thing I never had kids
Looking like an old-fashioned comedy hand grenade, the Sonic Alarm will wake pretty well anything up. Simply pull the pin, yell an emphatic "fire in the hole" and lob the grenade into the sleeper's room. After ten seconds a very annoying and piercingly loud noise (there are three volume settings) will blast out from the alarm. That's not all however, what makes this especially great is that to stop the alarm the sleeper has to find you so you can put the pin back in.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
If anyone is looking for my Christmas gift . . .
Handmade Knit Men`s SOCKS (WOOL DOG 100%)
High quality cheap cannot be.
High quality cheap cannot be.
Saturday, October 01, 2005
A nice walk in the woods today
Even nicer because I kept Nica on a leash so she didn't get to go chase the elk we saw.
I Guess I Never Looked At It That Way
Here's a movie you may have seen, in a way that you may not have thought about it.
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