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Scenes from a Derby
This past night the Fishing Derby wrapped up in Arctic Bay with the awards night at the gym. First prize at each of the five locations was one thousand dollars, and although she was quite successful in her fishing, Leah didn't catch any award winning fish. Travis didn't catch any fish, but being outside for…
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Quirks and Quarks and Polar Bears
Just in case you think I'm just blowing smoke out of my nether regions on my previous comments on the threat to polar bears, here is Bob MacDonald's (of Quirks and Quarks fame) take on the issue.
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The things you learn from Statcounter
Despite once having owned a Norfolk Pine, I had no idea of the existence of Norfolk Island until I had a hit from there this evening, and one of its 1,800 residents visited. I should have known of its existence, people from Pitcairn Island emigrated there. Hello out there in Norfolk.
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I and the Bird #75
Sri Lanka has got to be on almost every bird watchers dream list of locations to visit, and few people know its avifauna as well as Amila the host of Gallicissa, the blog of a birder in an endemic hotspot. He’s done an admirable job of hosting this edition of the premier bird carnival on…
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With a wimper
There are a few blogs on my sidebar, whose authors… well they make me feel a might thick. I don’t mean that in a bad way, in fact I enjoy the blogs very much, and I enjoy the mental calisthenics that my mind has to go through sometimes when I’m reading them. Larry, Dave and…
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He’s eating my brain, I can feel it.
I’ll leave the zombie stories to Townie Bastard, this story is about a bear attack. It was just such a great headline, and the fellow tells the story of his attack with such aplomb that I couldn’t resist the post.
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Alone again, naturally
Well not quite alone. The May Long Weekend brings the annual Fish Derby to Arctic Bay and this afternoon Travis and Leah left with Leah’s family to Kugurajuk, about a 9 or 10 hour snowmobile ride south of here. They’ll be gone until Monday. And I’m quite sure that there’ll be three or four other…
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Open Mic – Part two
One of the problems with working around radios is that inevitably the mic will get stuck open on one, and if you are driving around in the car, or sitting around the office everyone else will hear your conversation. And while someone will eventually try and track you down (not only to save you embarrassment…
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Ready Aye Ready
Arctic Bay has a pretty good Cadet Corps program in place here. In a community with not a lot of activities to offer young people Cadets has been a bright shiny light here. Over the past few years they’ve done very well in drill and shooting competitions and have garnered individual awards and accomplishments. Every…
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Another blow
Today the US Government listed the Polar Bear as a Threatened Species. For the most part I’m just going to point you to what I said back here. I guess this now means that in order to remove the threat the US will finally take action against Climate Change. Won’t it? Nothing has changed, the…
