Mr. Whiskers’ Jack Brown wraps rope around the beak of the aluminum cast sculpture in order to tie it down before shipping it to Baton Rouge Monday.
Chicken wrangling is easy if you are dealing with average-sized roosters. But at Mr. Whiskers, there is no such thing as an average-sized rooster.
Just ask Jack Brown. He has been the chief chicken wrangler at the business on U.S. 61 South for the past year — ever since the business has been selling the 9-foot high, 900-pound variety.
via The Natchez Democrat – Why did the chicken cross the road?.
Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washes ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama, Saturday, June 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Collected here are recent photographs from the Gulf of Mexico, and of those affected by the continued flow of oil and gas into the ocean. (37 photos total)
via Oil in the Gulf, two months later – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Recently we got the best-ever cease and desist letter. We’re no stranger to the genre, so what could possibly make this one stand out from the rest?
First, it’s 12 pages long and very well-researched (except on one point); it even includes screengrabs of the offending item from our site. And we know they’re not messing around because they invested in the best and brightest legal minds.
But what makes this cease and desist so very, very special is [...]
via ThinkGeek :: Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog – Officially our best-ever cease and desist.
Go there and read the rest. I don’t want to spoil it for you.
(Thanks to my good friend Megan for the heads up)
Cleaning up an area where an oil-coated log washed ashore
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Cleanup crews were out Saturday morning as a second wave of tar balls washed ashore.
via Isolated tar balls reported on west end beaches | panama, city – Oil – The News Herald.
Update: It’s even worse than I’d realized. I hadn’t checked the location of the oil in a couple of days or so – it seems that we have oil offshore that isn’t very far away, and is slowly moving toward us. Here’s a map of how it stands today:
Oil Locations and Beached Oil, 2010-06-19
Orange circles indicate oil/tarballs/etc that have come ashore. Cyan and blue are oil in the Gulf.
Oil Boom in Panama City's St. Andrews Bay
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Tar balls washed ashore Friday night in at least three locations on the west end beaches, county officials said.
Callers began reporting tar balls about 8 p.m., and as of 11 p.m. they had been confirmed near Carillon Beach, Front Beach Road near Kelly Street and in the Hollywood Beach area, county spokeswoman Val Lovett said.
“Tar balls, nickels to 50-cent piece in size, have washed ashore on the west end of the beach,” Lovett said. “It is consistent with the time frame that we were looking at.”
via UPDATE: Tar balls land in Bay County // PHOTOS – News – The News Herald.
Well, it’s officially here. Thankfully, nothing too major yet. Tarballs are – relatively – easy to clean up, and it shouldn’t have too much theoretical impact on our tourism – as soon as they clean a section of beach, it’s open again.
But of course we’re likely to see more oil come our way. So – in reality – our tourism industry is going to definitely start really hurting badly.
Great.
2010-06-18 14:35 Radar (32405)
No rain yet today, but there’s hope!
Butterbeer
ORLANDO, Florida — The Wizarding World of Harry Potter brims with exclusive souvenirs and replicas that fans will recognize from the books and films. Some of them are awesome, but others aren’t worth a single Galleon.
via Most Magical Things to Buy in Hogsmeade (and Some to Avoid) | Underwire | Wired.com.
I may be turning 35 in a couple of days… but it doesn’t mean I don’t want to go there and play, just the same. 
Tar balls wash ashore in Walton County – News – The News Herald.
Tarballs on Santa Rosa Beach
SANTA ROSA BEACH — Walton County reported minimal impacts from a moderate amount of small tar balls that landed around Topsail Hill State Preserve on Thursday. More tar ball reports came in Friday morning, and cleanup crews were being dispatched to the affected areas.
Well, it’s getting closer to us. This is uncomfortably close – Walton County is directly to our west.
I’m starting my blog over in a new place. I was able to grab Isaac.im a while back, and I’ve been slowly converting over to using email on that domain as my primary. I still have Eiland-Hall.com, of course, since I’m happy I have my wife’s and my last name; but Isaac.im is even shorter.
Isaac Eiland-Hall in Spring 2009
So you know who you’re reading – here’s a picture of me from my internship last year up in Seattle.
I’m a geek by trade; 35 years old (as of the 20th of June); privileged and cursed with severe ADHD, and theoretically back in college, trying to get a degree in Computer Science (and perhaps follow it with a Master’s in Meteorology; we’ll see).
Theoretically in college? Well, I started back to school in Fall 2008; got an internship the next spring, and that worked for all of 2009. The funding fell through for the internship for this spring, and due to reasons that I won’t go into here, I couldn’t afford to enroll. So I’m hoping the internship picks up (or I find other employment – since I’m still working as a volunteer, and I can do that even if I find work)…
We’ll see how it all goes!
Meanwhile, thanks for stopping by, and I hope this blog provides you with great information and entertainment.
