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by | Jan 6, 2008 | Asides

Just saw a bald eagle! What a gas! Colin and I were getting wood out of the garage so that we could start a fire. It happened that the garage door was open and as I was walking past the door I looked up and saw a bald eagle flying south over the trees just beyond the...

by | Jan 2, 2008 | Asides

I’ve been a busy little bee over the last few weeks, which has left me with very little time to update the old Beast. My best friend graduated from Quantico and I went to see him, my aunt and uncle came visiting from California for Christmas as did one of my...

by | Nov 8, 2007 | Asides

ICECAP, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the “…portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public” and consists of a group of scientists that,...

by | Oct 23, 2007 | Asides

Don’t know whether I like being on the same page as Pat Buchanan or not, but it appears that he holds the same point of view that I do regarding the whole global warming thing. Not to be trite, but on a day like today (70º in NY on October 22) the whole idea of...

by | Oct 12, 2007 | Asides

Farewell to Molly Campbell… Molly Campbell, my aunt’s sister and long time Snowmass, CO resident, passed away on Thursday the 4th of October. While I hadn’t seen her in years, when I was twelve years old I backpacked with her in the Grand Canyon with...