Archive for November, 2007
Charlie is a wild-born coyote who was unexpectedly delivered to my doorstep this past April after both his parents were shot for killing sheep. Whatever reservations I had about raising a wild animal simply didn’t matter – couldn’t matter – when I realized his survival, at least in the short term, depended on me.
At the time I write this, Charlie is nearly six months old. I don’t think of him as “my pet,” even though he sleeps curled against me every night (every night except the nights around a full moon), and happily rides in my truck, and adores my cat. I don’t wish to own him, just to live together in harmony. And that we do.
I take pictures of Charlie every day. And from the very first weekend, I have sent out a daily photo via email.
This website is an archive of Charlie’s daily pictures and my stories of life with a coyote. I post a new photograph every day, but it is a five month lag behind real-time.
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There are a lot of cute pictures:
November 30th, 2007
These are just a sampling of the 347 ornaments hand-created by artists whose designs represent America’s national parks, memorials, seashores, historic sites and monuments displayed on the tree in the Blue Room at the White House.
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This is the Texas ornament, which doesn’t look all that Texan to me.
November 30th, 2007
Is Sam Adams Utopias which contains 27% alcohol per volumne and retails at $120 for a 24-ounce bottle.
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November 30th, 2007
Bean Bible gives you information and help for all things to do with beans. Bean recipes, baked beans, bean soup, bean facts, anything and everything about beans! It’s all here. We know beans about beans.
November 30th, 2007
Police say a man followed a Dallas woman, assaulted her and took her $350,000 ring.
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I guess now would be a bad time for the husband to tell his wife that her engagement diamond was cubic zirconium.
November 30th, 2007
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
The protesters streamed out of mosques after Friday sermons, as pickup trucks with loudspeakers blared messages against Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes.
They massed in central Martyrs Square outside the presidential palace, where hundreds of riot police were deployed. They did not try to stop the rally, which lasted about an hour.
“Shame, shame on the U.K.,” protesters chanted.
They called for Gibbons’ execution, saying, “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”
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November 30th, 2007
Just what is it like to be lashed? In 1993, Gavin Sherrard-Smith, a computer expert from Cheltenham, received 50 lashes with a bamboo cane in a prison in Qatar. He was accused of breaking an alcohol ban while living in Doha, the capital – something that Mr Sherrard-Smith, now 47, has always denied.
This is his astonishing account of how the brutal punishment was carried out, and how he endured it.
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November 30th, 2007
This is a mural I painted for my son’s room. It’s based on the 1933 Walt Disney cartoon “Mickey and the Mechanical Man”. From start to finish, this mural took 3 months to complete.
More pics here.
November 30th, 2007
FAIRMONT, Minn. – More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he’s finding how it was discovered tough to swallow.
A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it.
“I’ve heard of livestock swallowing unusual objects, but this situation stands out,” Mark Olson, who owns the meat locker, told the Sentinel of Fairmont.
Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather’s barn near Sherburn.
“I would spend most of my time out at his farm, and that’s the only place I can think of that I would have lost it,” Giles said about his bracelet on Thursday. The 31-year-old said he thinks the bracelet was lost when he was 4 or 5.
The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and Giles thinks his bracelet was imbedded in materials used to construct another barn in Elmore, about 45 miles away.
The bracelet was found in a chicken that came from an Elmore farm.
Olson was able to track down Giles’ father, who had moved to Arizona. Giles, who now lives in Gloucester, Mass., said he received his old bracelet in September.
“It was in pretty immaculate shape. Everything was working on it, and all the engravings on it were still legible,” Giles said. “It was quite the surprise.”
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November 30th, 2007
I wonder if there was a website about marketing Jesus Christ.
And I wonder if you can find that website on Google by typing “1tsirhCsuseJ ” which is ” JesusChrist1 ” backwards.Â
And I wonder if there was such a website, would it really stand out regarding its layout and color scheme.
November 30th, 2007
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November 30th, 2007
I edited the list by modifying the curse words, but you can view the original list here.
Reason 1.
Only one man who has ever lived has been bad enough to be called “The Man In Black†and it wasn’t Chuck Norris
Reason 2.
Johnny didn’t have to fight to be a tough guy. He just had to pick up a beer bottle and a guitar.
Reason 3.
Norris made a bunch of films where he killed folks. Johnny Cash went to Folsom Prison and did a concert. You tell me which one takes more guts.
Reason 4.
Chuck wasn’t the first of his kind to kick butt. Johnny was the first rock star to set something on fire. While most artists only set their hotel rooms on fire, Johnny took it one step further and burned down half a national forest.
Reason 5.
When Chuck was five, he was a normal five year old. Johnny had already earned man points by working in his dad’s cotton fields. By the time he was six, Cash did more hard work than most men do in their whole life.
Reason 6.
Chuck never got stabbed in the back by a woman. Johnny never stopped bleeding. Chuck may have gotten punched a few times, but Johnny knew what real pain was.
Reason 7.
Chuck is a republican. Johnny was close with every president except for GWB. It was said he just didn’t trust that weasel. When Johnny didn’t trust someone, you just knew something foul was going on.
Reason 8.
Johnny was invited to play the at White House in 1972 for Richard Nixon. He was given a list of politically correct songs to sing. He instead metaphorically threw up his middle finger at the establishment and sang a set full of left leaning, politically charged tunes. Chuck Norris has never told the president to take off in his own house.
Reason 9.
Chuck Norris made a lot of crappy movies. Johnny Cash never touched anything that didn’t turn to gold. In the 80’s, he made a song called “Chicken in Black†to get himself out of a record deal. Even that became popular.
Reason 10.
Johnny is the only man in history to decline painkillers after a double bypass heart surgery. He knew he liked drugs too damn much and wouldn’t stop. That shows power over an addiction previously not seen before. Kicking a ninja’s rear end is easy compared to kicking a drug’s butt.
Writer’s Note: I am by no means a country music fan, but Johnny Cash transcends genre.
November 30th, 2007
Getmooh is an automated call back service. It is designed to help you escape a variety of situations by calling you automatically on your phone at a pre-specified time and playing you a recording which will either instruct you on what to say to elude your tormentor(s), or which will simply give a convincing sense of you being on an important call.
November 30th, 2007
Created as a response to new york city’s cramped living conditions, tiny living is a store that aims to provide solutions for small spaces. The founders, a husband and wife team, have spent many years living in cramped new york city apartments- one of which was a studio that measured a mere 200 sq. ft. Tiny Living offers a range of cleverly designed, affordable items that are small in scale, multi-purpose, flexible or organizational.
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Not safe for claustrophobics.
November 30th, 2007
Until now, the only way to experience the full impact of the night sky was to load up the car and drive hundreds of miles beyond the glare of city lights.
Now the heavens are yours to keep. You can effectively bring the universe into your own home.
Night Sky Murals® perfectly recreates the night sky on your own ceiling.
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You can even get it to be astronomically accurate.
This reminds me of the ceiling in the Paramount Theater in Abilene.
I had a lot of great dates in that place. And what I mean by “a lot” is two, and what I mean by “great” is none.
And if my cancer surviving friend Conner is reading this, I am reminded of the night when you were watching Grease and I was trying to distract you with popcorn.
November 30th, 2007
I’m sure if you think about it, you can guess who is #1. I know Rev Hart and Little Pastor can come up with the answer.
U2 comes in at 18.
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November 30th, 2007
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