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    I hate cat people

    Since rescuing Yoda the kitten last year, I have grown fonder of cats in general. We grew up with many cats as pets and we loved them as part of…

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    Amazon Anomaly

    Has anyone else ever received extras in their shipment from Amazon? I ordered a couple of music CDs a while back and when they finally came a couple weeks ago…

  • Photos

    Fishing Pics – Sumoto Port

    Photos from last Sunday: Nam with the gourmet catch of the day, a maruhagi (triggerfish). Stephanie taking a hard day off from working the Gallic skies. T-dog and Michelle serving…

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    Shark Bait

    Swimming to Catalina Island from the mainland is either stupid or insane, I can’t decide which. I mean, there are GREAT WHITE SHARKS out there and he’s worried about barracuda?…

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    Audioslave in Cuba

    An interview with Audioslave, just back from a huge concert in Havana is up at The Wave. Playing old Rage Against the Machine songs to 70,000 spectators sounds kinda like…

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    Learning a new language

    One of the primary reasons I stayed in Japan to work (instead of going back to the states) after graduating university was that I wanted to learn business Japanese. When…

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    Mr Angry & Mrs Calm

    “If you are near to this picture, Mr Angry is on the left and Mrs Calm is on the right. If you view it from a distance, they switch places!”…

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    The Ring of Fire

    When I was a kid I used to make miniature gladiator rings in my backyard by digging a ring in the hard-packed dirt and filling it with water, so the…