Yesterday Connie and I went to some sheep dog trials at the Colorado Horse Park, a large, beautifully maintained, multi-purpose facility that is just under two miles from our house. Though we’ve owned herding dogs for years and seen these sorts of events on television, it was our first time to see one in person. …
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Snakes in a Box
This story tells of two Denver men who planned to murder a man who owed them $60,000 by forcing him to put his legs in a box filled with rattlesnakes. Sounds like I moved to a tough neighborhood.
Zaca Lake Fire
The LA Times today reports on the Zaca Lake Fire that has burned 116,000 acres in the Los Padres National Forest north of Santa Barbara. The fire has been burning since July 4 and is about to spread east into Ventura County. The USFS estimates that it will be sometime early in September before it …
A Farewell to Alms
Last week the NY Times’ estimable Nicholas Wade had a review of a new book by economic historian Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Apparently the crux of the book deals with how the English economy was able to benefit from technological change during the Industrial Revolution at …
Overland Journal
Steve has an article “Riding with the Eagle Hunters of Mongolia” in the Summer 2007 number of Overland Journal. This link does not bring up the article, available only in dead tree version, but I received my copy last week and it’s well worth subscribing.
New Arrival
Congratulations (I believe) to Pluvialis who has just gotten her new goshawk. I assume she’s accepting donations to her Red Bull fund.
More Discoveries at the Whydah
Last summer I had a post about underwater archaeology at the wreck of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sunk in a storm off of Wellfleet, Massachusetts in 1717. The NY Times today has the story of the recovery of 12,000 pound mass of corroded metal from the sea floor under the wreck. Researchers think …
This Story Has Legs
I just saw this bizarre story in today’s Denver Post. In Valencia County, New Mexico, just south of Albuquerque, two human legs were recovered from an irrigation ditch last month. No other body parts were found, and though the legs were found several days apart, they were both wearing the same type boot and both …
More Cold Warriors
Here are a couple more shots of some Cold War aircraft from the Mojave flight line. Above is a MiG-15 with my son Travis, age 11, in for scale. This is a Korean War era plane in a two seat trainer variant, I believe a MiG-15UTI. Pictured above is a white F-86 Sabrejet, another Korean …
BBJ
A few days ago, the Denver Post had this article on efforts by the FAA and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association to streamline the regulations for certifying interiors for luxury private aircraft. Currently these interiors are required to meet standards set for commercial passenger aircraft and this is difficult when private owners want to do …