Category Archives: General

Happy New Year!

2008-01-01 – 16:28

We celebrated New Years last night on Rio de Janeiro time so everyone could go to bed as early as they wanted or needed. My mom (Grandi Mac to the girls) isn’t a napper, but she managed a five hour nap yesterday afternoon, and still was able to sleep a full night starting at 10 […]

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Initial comments on lined aluminum water bottles for active or sports use

2007-12-31 – 06:24

Andrea got me an aluminum water bottle for my birthday. I drink a lot of water from bottles, while bicycling, hiking, or just tooling around with the family. She’s read lately about how plastic vessels can leach harmful compounds in to the liquid, and it gets worse if the liquid in question is more […]

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Hunting SMS

2007-12-16 – 13:48

At 7:36 A.M., a little over an hour after my uncle David dropped me off at the deer stand, my pocket vibrated, the short notification of an incoming text message: “Will pick you up closer to 9, unless I hear you shoot, then I’ll be by at 8:30. Please acknowledge.”
I felt ridiculous sending my reply […]

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Newsflash: trashifarians (freegans) stealing food from the truly hungry

2007-09-27 – 18:52

Via Newsweek by way of getrichslowly.org a well-written, gentle criticism of the Trashifarian movement:
The freegans, most of whom are educated and capable of contributing to the economy, aren’t sharing the surplus wealth of the West with those who are destitute by circumstance rather than choice. They are competing with them for it.

The freegans’ Edenic […]

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The Annual Dove Hunt

2007-09-03 – 20:11

Last year I went on my first dove hunt at my uncle David’s place near St. Matthews, SC. No one told me what to bring, so I just showed up with my shotgun, a bottle of water and a box of shells. There were twenty people spaced around a few disused fields, and plenty of […]

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