Negative, Had Groundhog Once...Groundhog ain't bad. Rattlesnake is better though.

7 Pillars of WisdomMr Shepp, The Seven Pillars is a great choice. Easily one the best five books I've ever read. In fact, maybe the best. Would recom...

Kent, that sky is certainly Dixon-esque. Very nice. Ummmh, I found the buffalo, the coyote head, the scorpion and the rough outline of Galveston Bay,...

Angostura Bitters + limeSprinkle several drops of Angostura Bitters over a 1/4 piece of fresh lime or lemon. Suck same. Guaranteed, absolutely 100% ef...

As a 5th grader in 1963, and a Little League baseball kid growing up in Columbia Missouri and a member of the Russell Boulevard Elementary School safe...

Maynard DixonKent, your paintings are excellent. Thanks for posting them. Maynard Dixon is perhaps my favorite artist, especially in terms of the Amer...

Mayan Long Count Calendar> By having their civilization collapse 500 years prior to the Spaniards arrival; the fiendishly clever Mayans were able t...

I don't think that Kyle Van Noy and Ziggy Ansah agree with you on that.

Ships vs BoatsFor surface sailors, the distinction is that ships are those vessels large enough to carry boats, and boats are anything small enough to...

I mainly use my Kindle for casual and light reading, or for hunkering down in the rack as winter evenings come on in this neck of the woods. Some Kind...

Question for GPS experts : MAC, VRS, FKP, PPP-RTK, etcExcellent. Thanks Gavin.

Got more bald eagles than crows here, and plenty of each. The local crows and the ravens try to give the eagles a hard time, and pester the hell out o...

Filson. Or if it's really really rain, and green seas are coming aboard then Helly-Hansen.Helly Hansen

Thank you Mr Fleming. Very nice choice. I'm glad I listened all the way through, to Derek and Susan's comments at the end.

LagosRobt, those kinds of incentives are surely what it takes to convince any prospective employee to make a move to Lagos. I applaud your niece and h...

Nice pics, but at what cost?I love this stuff too, I really do. These are great pics from Mars, no doubt about it. But I always wonder about the trade...

Is there gold in Washington state? Yes indeed. Most of it in my home county. After 150+ years of placer mining, the Similkameen River gravel still has...

I figured you would feel it too, Nate. It's inconsequential and unimportant to some, but for me it's a whopping 1000 milliseconds added to my 60th t...

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be ready.Is it just me, or does anybody else feel a little whiplash when they do that?