Doing it old school...

Seriously heinous, following the money, and some Maker Faire (and yes dear reader there is a trebuchet!!!) goodness...

Yesterday I was working on the deck when a boat motored up beside me and asked where we were... Which is not a question you get asked a lot these days in a world where GPS is commonplace.

So, I told him the name of the anchorage...

He then asked, "What island?"...

I told him St Croix...

"But where is Tortola?"

I pointed...

"How far is it?"...

"About 41 miles"...

"That's a long way"...

"What course should I steer?"

"Six degrees should get you there"

"My compass doesn't work, can you point me in the right direction?"

So I pointed then went back to the job at hand and when I next looked up he was no longer in sight...

Listening to Love and the Zealous

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It being "Up against the wall" day and all...

Some news that just gave tourisim related interests (spelled just about everyone) in the USVI/BVI a category 5 panic attack, good writing about that for-profit college skullduggery, and about those vaporware jobs...

Hey, it's that day again...



Listening to Ray Wylie Hubbard

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A quick reminder...

A tuna story, safety in the skies, and yep we're an advanced civilized nation...



Listening to The Brothers of Soul

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On avoiding stasis...

Some alarming stats concerning seafood crime, Krugman making a lot of sense, and you know it would be no bad thing if someone did a boat building/rehabbing workshop along these lines...

I finally got around to buying a handheld depth sounder for the dinghy and it's been a "Why didn't I do this ages ago" experience.

I mention this because while a firm believer in running stuff through the need/want computer (a re-purposed wayback machine for those who care about such things) and always do a cost benefit analysis. That said, there really is a case for just buying the damn thing when your head tells you that something is needful.

It's easy to get carried away in research and finding the best thing/best deal/best alignment of planets when buying stuff but it is really a lot of time-consuming hard work and, like some folks say...

"Time is money"

I mentioned over at VolksCruiser that the older Columbia 34s seem to be a good boat at an excellent price point and yesterday there seemed like a lot of good deals floating around. Of course, the problem is that what's cheap today may not be cheap or available tomorrow and that folks who are indecisive tend to miss opportunities when they reveal themselves.

Which is not to say that you should be jumping into stuff without thinking or doing needful homework but that over-thinking is just as great a problem as not thinking at all.

Listening to Spirit

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The purge continues...

An education of sorts, about what you'd expect, and a pretty good reason to rethink using Dropbox...

I've been cleaning out lockers and organizing them in an ongoing spring cleaning purge and it's amazing just how much stuff falls into the what-is-this-why-did-we-ever-get-it category.

I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time...

On the positive side, you also find a lot of stuff you knew you had but has somehow migrated to places they don't belong. For the record, I have no clue why or how a pair of new Lewmar blocks had found their way into a box set aside for electrical oddities shoved away in an unreachable space that I'd put aside for fixing film and video gear.

Listening to ? & The Mysterians

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