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We remember

Mon, 26 May 2008 10:32:07 -0900

For those who didn't come home, we will never forget.

Blogging will be extremely light

Sat, 24 May 2008 08:54:47 -0900

Blogging will be extremely light. The site is going to get a make-over in the near future. And it's springtime in Alaska, so I've got better things to do than mess around on the computer.

In the meantime, here's a bird that was checking out my brother's backyard last year.

Tightwad Bank returns

Thu, 22 May 2008 04:25:48 -0900

The Tightwad Bank is back.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. J.P. Dawson, now stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, targeted the Tightwad Bank during a road trip out of Maryland five years ago. But Dawson never got the Tightwad Bank account he wanted.
A couple of armed robberies had left the bank lobby shuttered, and the clerk at the drive-through couldn’t open new accounts.

“We were like, ‘What a bummer. We drove all the way out here,’ ” Dawson said.

Still, he carried a Tightwad Bank key chain until it broke recently.

Yeah... I'm gonna open an account.

Background on the closing and on the big road trip in '03.

Blogging will continue

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:30:04 -0900

Having some issues uploading new photos... when that's fixed, the blogging will resume.

Resurgemus gets results?

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:01:45 -0900

29 Dec '07: Resurgemus says, "Bryant Gumbel sucks."

11 Apr '08: Bryant Gumbel says, ...we’ve agreed that we’d all be better served going in different directions."

I must use this power wisely.

Arenaria interpres

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:23:21 -0900

A pair of ruddy turnstones. These little birds spend their summers in the Arctic. Quite a long flight just to hang out on the beach each winter.

Nine point nine

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:16:56 -0900

A gymnast from the Air Force Academy competes against University of Alaska at Anchorage this past Sunday.

No, I don't have a clue who won.

Seagull Tai Chi

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:07:43 -0900

Sun sets on another vacation

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:35:09 -0900

Vacation is over. Back to work.

At least I'll be wearing green for St. Patrick's Day.

Aramus guarauna

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:14:01 -0900

A limpkin in Mayaka State Park.

Catoptrophorus semipalmatus

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:06:56 -0900

A willet on the beach in Venice, Florida.

It's either Catoptrophorus semipalmatus or Tringa semipalmata. Not that it matters to anyone but the bird nerds.

A little schadenfreude

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:24:31 -0900

I was not-so-secretly hoping for bad things to happen to the heron.

Alligator mississippiensis

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:18:25 -0900

A 'gator in Mayaka State Park.

Egretta caerulea

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:08:22 -0900

A Little Blue Heron stalks Myaka State Park in Florida.

One, two, three, four...

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:02:28 -0900

I'm back from Del Boca Vista. There were 136 comments in the queue for me, all but one of them were spam.

The curious thing -- and I'm clueless on how these spammers and spambots operate -- 122 of the 135 bogus comments were posted (in vain) to four entries. All four of those entries had a title with a number spelled out. Entries titled Hundred-yard Stare or Thirty-four get spammed disproportionately.

When I post photos of birds, I put the species name (in Latin) as the title, and I've never been spammed in those entries. Everything else gets a random spam comment here and there.

I guess I could stop spelling out numbers. Then again, all comments are subject to approval, and when 90% of all the garbage comments are in a few posts, it's easier to delete them en masse.

Any web geeks have any idea why that happens? It's not like their comments are getting through on those posts. Perhaps some automated program just locks on to them.

One of these days I'll figure out some software solution to spam. For now, there's always the anti-spam hardware.