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River otters are real *****. Never want to be around them. They are better as wraps on expensive rich ladies.

Wow, a fat San Juan worm being fished under a bobber. Fix the bobber and it is an epic fly fishing photo!!! I will be sure to send this to all my "bobber friends". It looks just like the blue gills that are taking over my favorite trout lake.

True, sad and funny story about Steven Seagal. A colleague had a nice house above Leavenworth when Steven Seagal showed up to film "Surviving the Game" in Wenatchee. The film company called him up and asked if Steven Seasgal could stay in his house for a month. He asked "how much will you pay...

REALLY?? I click on this link thinking it is a report on the March 1 fishing opener. Where is the NFR...... As a immigrant to this country I am forever grateful that Americans invented baseball. Basketball?......well ok. Not a reason to immigrate to America. Not as bad as soccer, but close.

I fished a bass lake in late winter early spring when it was still fairly cold. I believe in the 40's for water temperature. I hook a "big log" and slowly brought it to the boat, not wanting to lose my fly. It was a 5 lb bass. I actually weighed it. It literally did not move when hooked...

When I was working in Forest Planning I was always frustrated with the amount of time I spent on network, operating systems, and other issues not directly related to what I needed to do with the computers. If you do something often or need to process large amounts of data computers are...

The statement "could increase wealth inequality" is pretty funny. It will. The transition will be difficult, particularly if it is not perceived to be fair. It could come that lots of people will have a "base income" and that alone. There will be people "still working" and being human they...

I just talked to a guy that got a DUI in Europe even through he was below the limit. No big deal?? Well, the Europeans share their arrest history with other countries and these days it is real easy to check records. Heading up north to a fishing trip in BC and he was stopped at the border...

When I took economics in the early 70's, we covered oligarchs and their effect on economic systems. Didn't spend much time on them, since at that time they were few and far in between. Today it is a different story. Though oligarchs are usually mentioned as "Russian oligarchs" the situation...

The Resistance should NOT be against AI. The Resistance should be against AI being controlled by the Oligarchs. Where is Theodore Roosevelt when we so desperately need him again.....

Boston Dynamics started as a independent company. In 2013 it was acquired by Google. If was then sold to SoftBank in 2017. I do remember when Google bought Boston Dynamics since it was basically funded and operated as a research firm for DOD. When Google bought it, their employees wanted to...

Those are pretty high end wines. Still waiting for my first Walla Walla red at Grocery Outlets. Did find one Horse Heaven Hills winery. It was good. For a long, long time the Federal tax code was a "gift" to the wine industry. If you were wealthy, it made sense to plant a vineyard since you...

Way back in a forest economics class, we students were sitting around complaining about not having "enough disposable income". Forestry students between fire money, and fairly good paying summer jobs working for the natural resource agencies and private companies had a pretty good "disposable...

Problems with Windows 11......solved that from never upgrading from Windows 7. Now that is a good operating system. So far have NOT had a need to update from Windows 7. I just keep running that "old" software. No need...to upgrade yet. If I need to buy new software I might change the...

yeah, read that years ago. Wanted a different perspective, and the truth is usually found when the discussion is NOT focused on the issue as defined by the writing.

I read the book, simply because I thought it would have a description of 1930's Hawaii. I am still looking for a book about Hawaii prior to jets. However, it was a great book. Well written. When my daughter was growing up, I told her NEVER tease other kids about things they cannot change...

I ran into the same thing with my doctors when I talked to them about WNV. I think it is simply that doctors today are not required to take any ecology classes!!! In the 1970' all the pre-med and foresters had to take a year of biological sciences for biology majors. We both suffered through...

You know better the timeline. What I remember is the information in the field that I was getting from the Forest Service in the 1970's forward. Working in Idaho in the early 1970's the focus was on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. There was lots of concerns among field folks with ticks for that...

The tech oligarchs are now working on the post AI world and worried about it. Here is a post in the Wall Street Journal on a viewpoint of a post-AI future as viewed by the Tech Oligarchs. Worth Reading...

I thought about editing out the Fauci comments, but it is a repost. And I decided just to leave it. It is woven through the post. The person is a former Forest Service employee with obviously a background of dealing with Lyme's on several fronts. Ignore the Fauci comments. I did. I don't...