Went for a lovely hike on Sunday. The two highlights being the candy shop in Port Townsend, and mountain goats! Stubborn guys though. They would much rather stand in the path and root around in the dirt for tasty grubs and munch on lichen than give way to a group of hikers. Sometimes you'd look way up on a castle like tower of rock and some guy would be happily up there snuffling around.

Recreation of the day

Great creation of a bear sighting in the US.

"This is what the bear probably looked like...accept real"

A good rant

I thought a good rant would be good to get the blog going again:

Farm Fetish: (a rant about America's obsession with the farming ideal)

Four million people in the US play World of Warcraft. And yet, do I ever hear:

ANDERSON: We stopped by the gates of Ogrimmar in Durotar, on the east coast of Kalimdor, where one local told us Hollywood just can't relate to the level-grinding life.

UNIDENTIFIED ORC: They've never been back here, questing Razormane or Drygulch Ravine, y'know ... or farming for Peacebloom and Silverleaf. They're out of touch.

Must Reads From MotherJones

Two great articles:

Your Electric Car as a Battery in the Grid

Can Jet Stream Winds Power The World?

How Canada Does Banking

The first of a series from the NYTimes on.... Canadian Banking???? Should be good eh.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/canadas-way-how-our-northern-neighbors-do-banking/

Bill Frisell at the Village Vanguard

Here's Bill.

And here's Bill's gear. He fiddled with it all the time, especially the box on the stool. What is that, some sort of pre-amp?