A collage of Baluchi hounds owned in Pakistan by Ali Hosnain, a member of my “extended dogfamily”; assembled by Jutta Rubesam in Germany. Call them tazis or Asian salukis or aboriginal Afghans or what you will; I’d own one, and breed from it.
Month: February 2012
Dream Gun Meme
At Atomic Nerds, LabRat has posted her sensible choices for an Interweb “meme” that in my over- busyness I didn’t even know was circulating: Five Dream Guns. Once I would have gasped “only five?” Now I like the idea of having a few well- used, high- quality Good Guns. I should postulate also that I …
Herding sheep, and words
It’s been such a long time since I’ve posted, and I have missed the blog much in the last few months. Our sheep and guardian animals are all fine and wintering well. We’ve moved the herd to the pasture at our house, so my “checking the sheep” sometimes only involves looking out the window. When …
Quote of the Day
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
Hot Links
Archaeologists at the University of Oregon are using a blimp to help them map and photograph medicine wheels in southeastern Oregon. Loved this picture. I find it fascinating that paleontologists have found a Permian forest almost 300 million years-old miraculously preserved in volcanic ash in China. I find it frustrating there are no pictures of …
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
Just this morning I ran across a link to this lecture given by the late Michael Crichton about ten years ago, on a peculiar effect of our modern news media. I have recently had a work-related occurence which unfortunately I cannot blog about, that has convinced me of its essential truth. After you read this, …
Not Sharing
A few days ago our local pair of Red-tailed Hawks killed a cottontail at the end of my neighbor’s driveway. Didn’t take long before the moochers started to show up. It didn’t take much Magpie harrassment for the female to get disgusted and take off with most of the rabbit. The male refused to move …
Flying visit with bar & meal
Reid & Connie blew through ahead of a winter storm, down to take a look at Aussie pups which he will doubtless blog on. An early evening in the bar, an excellent elk “Brasato” courtesy of reader Roberto, (recipe below), talk til eyes closing of everything from science fiction to Doc Holliday to folk and …
Old Anglo Indian Books
For bibliophiles mainly. Conversations with Walter Hingley prompted me to bring out my favorite old fishing book: a copy of Thomas’s The Rod in India that I got from fishing writer Datus Proper, with its gold embossed figure of an Indian angler and a mahseer on the cover.* (Click all to enlarge).The mahseer was sometimes …
Teaser
The Hansons are back from their Egyptian expedition with the Explorers Club flag– and will (both Roseann and Jonathan I hope) be writing something here. Sample: “It was fantastic. Probably the most challenging driving I’ve had over such an extended journey. Many difficult climbs to cross dune chains, then 60mph blasts across huge rolling sand …