Archive for 2007
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
We discovered these when we were planning to travel by sailboat.
We carry a set with us now.
If you do anything with your spouse that involves moving, coordinating, loading, deploying, etc. anything mechanical or in a high noise or seperated-by-distance environment, you need a set of these.
Marriage saver headsets: http://www.cruisingsolutions.com/headsets.asp
Mariner 500 ...
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Legend has it that on a pleasant September Friday morning a rich stock broker stopped to get his shoes shined on his way to work. As he perused the morning paper he overhead his shoe shine boy trading stock tips with the boy working next to him. It slowly dawned ...
Posted in Econ / Finance | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
30 July, 2007
Hitt Wash
Santa Maria Mountains
Northwest Arizona, USA
The white Toyota Tacoma pickup slowly moved into the water, dipping its front wheels in gradually and proceeding until the rears were also half submerged. It paused on the river’s shelf with the water in the slack side pool lapping gently against the ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
My riding buddy from Telluride, Tom Thomas, has one of these attached to his handlebars.
He’s also got a killer backpack frame made up that carries a short bar Stihl chainsaw, but he says this handsaw is more useful.
Tom told me that after decades of trying everything out there the CO ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
The crowd of 8,000 was a ten on the scale of eclectic. From the upper stratosphere of the moneyed, to the denizens of the Free Box corner, to the blue collared working class whose cowboy hats were authentic, to the fashion statement clothes horses whose cowboy hats were at best ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
One summer afternoon, sometime in the mid-80s, we were sitting around the kitchen table at my friend Floyd’s place. It was the 2nd story of a typical Chicago brick three flat in Wrigleyville. The back door was open, the flies were buzzing around the screen door and the rattling, clattering, ...
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
Please see the PDF file at:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/happy-new-year-2007.pdf
Posted in Geopolitics, US Politics | No Comments »
