A slightly Bigger Fish ( well not really a fish )

Killer Whale attacks a seal

One tough fish

Northern pike eats a brown trout

Interesting quote

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” - Stephen Roberts

Wow

Guy falls around 50 feet doing a skateboard trick at X-Games and walks away. The announcers are a little annoying but this is pretty amazing.

Cool article on online maps

NY Times on Web Maps

Nope, I won't eat it.

NY Times Article about Bioengineering animals and eating them.

I can't imagine ever willingly eating bio-engineered animals. There is simply too big a chance of unintended side affects, in my opinion. The original unmodified animals have properly feed us humans for thousands of years I really don't see a reasons to change that. The environmental effects are also too dangerous. If a large group of the fast growing salmon were to escape, it's happened numerous times with farm raised salmon, and they were to out compete the native wild salmon but turn out to be sterile? Then we caused the extinction of a species because of arrogance in thinking that we know all there is to know when we plainly don't.

I know I sound like a Luddite but I normally really support technology, I just think that we don't have a good enough handle on bio-tech and the side affects to pursue it int this manner. I'm all for bio-tech in medical uses but not the engineering of new organisms.

Not Bad not Bad at all...

I like this guitar and it's fairly cheap as far as guitars go.

A little Braggin'....

I gotta brag on the new pup, Shelby. She turns 12 weeks today and is doing absolutely awesome. She has several times sight chased bunnies and scent trailed right to the bunny several more times. Just this weekend she opened up ( mini bays that will develop into full fledged bays ) on both the scent trail and in a sight chase for the first time. At 11 weeks old that is really fast. She is doing well with all her other training and I even think Sophie is starting to come around.

However, she is wearing me out. SO MUCH energy followed by a total and complete crash. She'll go like crazy and then sleep like the dead. She's a chewing machine. and requires constant supervision if she is not sleeping, in her kennel, or tied up outside. Even then I feel like I'm always keeping one eye on her.

It's all worth it though. Watching her grow and develop as a hunting dog and as a house pet has been really cool. Seems like she learns something new everyday. I can't wait until fall and until she's ready for hunting season.

This is a great looking guitar

This a very very nice looking guitar

And now Debuting Shelby....

Today Katie and I became proud puppy parents for the second time. Below are alot of, too many really, pictures of our newest family member. My little future hunting buddy, the beagle known as Shelby:








The proud Momma and pup. :)

At the Canton Blues festival

This is for Gwen you loves all things miniature.

Picture of Robert Cray who performed at the blues fest and was amazing. Incredible guitar player and singer. I would highly recommend that anyone go see him if they get the chance.

Here is a video that Katie recorded of him.



Here is my flickr account with a bunch of pictures that we (mostly Katie but I did take some) have taken. More will be added tomorrow.

I'm Drooling

PRS Singlecut 250

This is a beautiful guitar.

Neil Young - Ohio

I have always loved this song.
Ohio


Here is a cool acoustic version:
Acoustic Ohio



More Neil Young related vids:
With Pearl Jam ( one of my favorite bands and one of the reasons I decided to start playing guitar ) Rockin' in the free world The vocals are a little shaky on this one but I still like it.

Old Man

Cortez the Killer


Favorite Pearl Jam song
Yellow LedBetter - funny but that said I understand nearly all the lyrics (well sorta kinda.....)

Crying...

Ok not really crying but what the hell do I do with my life.....


She's only 23:

Ana Vidovic Classical guitar
Biography

Is it 2008 yet?

Op-Ed from the NYTimes about Stem cell research.

NYtimes about new Bush Initiative

NYTimes on Bush voteing the Stem cell research bill

Cool youtube vid

Hiromi's Sonicbloom "Time Out"

Hiromi's Sonicbloom "Time Difference"

Kung Fu World Champion - Hiromi Uehara (weird but I like it )

Love and Laughter Part 1 - Hiromi

Hiromi's Sonicbloom "Deep into the night"

Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara - Spain

It's a jazzy fusion rock type of stuff. Really cool and they look like they have a lot of fun playing it.

A Judge make a good choice

Judge sides with wild salmon

Basically the Bush admin and a bunch of property rights groups ( big time corp farmers who want to remove salmon and steelhead protection so that they can get cheaper and better access to river water, so that they are free to cut down and trees they wish, and finally are free to use any pesticides they wish no matter what the impact on the environment ) were pushing to count fish raised in a hatchery as the same thing as wild born and raised fish. There are numerous problem with this, including the fish being far more likely to catch diseases, the hatchery fish having far weaker instincts, and the wild fish will be out bred by the hatchery fish simply because of sheer numbers.
Hatchery fish have their place, like here in Ohio. The main type of trout we have in Ohio is hatchery raised steelhead and I'm very happy to have the chance to catch them but they aren't replacing a native population of fish in Ohio. This is certainly not the case in the steelhead and salmon's native range. I just hope the appeals judge is as sane as this one was.

Cool Photo Essay

What the world eats.

It's cool but I'm not sure it means a whole lot. I will say that alot of the other countries food looked alot better that the USA's.

Very interesting article on the Enviroment and It's protection

Save SteelHead and Save Ourselves.

One of the reasons I want to become a biologist is to help save and protect speices like the steelhead, Altantic Salmon, and Striped Bass.These amazing animals can only be destroyed though man's action, rather that be the overfishing and poplution or simply not doing anything to help save them now that we have hurt them badly.
The article it's self doesn't have any facts in it but rather sums up rather nicely how I feel about protecting wild fish.

Accent quiz

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz