Flaming the Bear

My quad-annual visit!

2 years ago I started another blog on a hosted site. Now I can post here but I can't seem to visit from home. Wierd.

You're looking at a photo's from the Syncrude site in northern Alberta. Seems the crane may have been over loaded! No one died, but a pretty scary sight when you think about it.

Notes from the Technology Underground: Example of what not to do

Uh yeah, looks like fun, my ears are ringing just thinking about it! The last time someone tried this around here they blew the door's off an apartment building in town! I don't know if the victim's were all that fazed though, they kept on playing cards! That 5 draw poker's a serious game! Ha Ha

I’ve finally done it. I put out my home brew digital trail camera today. I chose my current hot spot that eat’s 35mm film like it’s free beer at a frat party. Lot’s of times, I would check the camera, refill the film; swap the batteries and when I checked the cam on my way to the 1 hour lab there the camera would’ve auto rewound. Cool, except lot’s of times when I checked the date on the film it would only have been 48 hours since I had visited the camera last. In other words the camera sat idle for 3 to 5 days with out any ammo to take pic’s with. I’ve set this cam up with a 64 meg card, not a monster BUT it’s got 2x the capacity of a 24 exposure roll on max pixels.

My camera build has been moving along. Pretty soon I’ll have a nice 2 mp digi-cam in the field. I know I’m not on the latest & greatest but when I’m done I’m going to have 2 digital trail / game cameras that will have cost me about $250 canuck bucks total. I think the cheapest I can get any digital trail/gamer camera right now is about $250-300 for a 1 mega-pixel. So although it’s not the latest and greatest, it’s certainly not the worst out there. The first and probably the second camera are going to both use the Bryan Gennings chip and home made boards. I’m using Carlon-Lamson 6×6x4 electrical boxes for the case. They’re a little awkward to use since they don’t have a door. But once I modify them by putting in studs & wingnuts on for the cover they’re not to bad. Not super accessible but not totally impossible to use either. The Carlon box is also a lot cheaper than the Pelican case’s quite a few people have been using. One friend is using the Lock ‘n Lock sandwhich boxes too and they work out pretty cheap. The only thing wrong with the lock ‘n locks is the quality of adhesion, I haven’t found something that to them all that great yet. On the Carlon boxes I can and do use 2 different things for glue up. JB weld & automotive molding tape, both adhere well and I’m hoping the automotive tape will hold up the cold, especially since it sticks like crazy. Once I get the first box done I’ll post a pic of it on here so everyone can see what I’m talking about.

While this isn't a monster yet, it will be soon. This deer has nice width and is showing some potential mass for mass. His only flaw is that he's short 1 point of the left side. He's a 2x3.

Photos here, there everywhere! I like the doe pic, she's midstride, if you look closely there's another set of eyes coming in the background on the right.

Garth Turner has announced that he may quit the Conservative caucus and sit as independant over the David Emerson affair. I wonder if he plans on quiting his seat too, after all one of the arguments being used is that the people that elected Emerson wanted a Liberal not a Conservative. Well that's fine BUT the people that elected Turner wanted a Conservative NOT and an independant, talk about a double standard!

Husband - “I just lost an argument with my own argument”

Lady - “Huh, is that man sense?”

Wife - “Nope, it makes perfect sense to me!”

Page 4 of the Edmonton Sun today (Feb 11/06) tells an incredible story where guy who just had his drivers license suspended for 3 piddly months for killing someone in a crosswalk. He then got into his car and drove away. This, according to the Sun is after he surrendered his license to the court! Unbelievable! What's the point of a justice system if the convicted just do what they were just banned from doing? Not only did the guy up and do it at the courthouse, he did it in front of the MSM & the victim's family. Either this guy is an idiot or already knows that the justice system is going to be completely toothless in it's response to his violation of the law. As far as I'm concerned the only good place for this guy is in jail! He's been tried, convicted & sentenced and he didn't make it a half an hour before he violated the terms of his conviction. Since he's unwilling to meet the terms set out by the court maybe he needs to supervised the entire time to ensure he's compliant with the courts wishes. And what better place for him to be supervised than in a max security prison!

Before anyone says it, I really don't think that the Canadian olympic hockey team is going to be much of a threat this year. If I were a betting man, I wouldn't waste a dime on the Canadian team, even if they're favoured. Not because of the alleged gambling controversy that brewing over Tochett but because the team is old. It lacks the youth needed to ignite the fire. Hockey is a team sport, fill a team with talented head line players and you've got another New York Rangers scenario. This is exactly the team that was put together this year, I'll be cheering on the Czech's & Russians once Canada is kaput. Heaven forbid the U.S. wins; the gloating would be unbearable.