Bon Voyage…
Because we’d never actually fired a bear spray cannister before and because we apparently needed a little comedy relief, Steve and I shot off an old one he had in the alley behind my garage. We wanted to see what the range looked like, what the can felt like to fire, that sort of thing. … Read more
Citizen Science
According to some stories I’ve been seeing in the media lately, we’re living in the time of citizen scientists. It’s a return to a way of intelligence-gathering and analysis that used to be the norm, but that fell out of fashion sometime in the last century as science became the realm of professionally trained academics. … Read more
Packing bags
Back in the 1980′s, the Alaska Tourism Office had an ad campaign that used the slogan, “Once you’ve been to Alaska, you never really leave.” (That may be slightly paraphrased, but it’s close and it’s as true a statement as ever came out of an ad agency.) In the years since I lived there, I’ve … Read more
