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It has happened again, as it happens every year.  An "experienced" outdoorsman goes out into the backcountry, has an encounter with a bear, and the outdoorsman gets seriously injured and/or killed as the result. Here is the MSN link:   MSN Link - Bear Attack In my opinion, this fall 100% in the category of Darwinism - survival of the fittest - along with the Idiot Award of the Week category #sarcasm.  What is known is very little, and what is unknown is a lot.  This is what bothers me the most about this scenario. This all falls on safety while out in the woods.  With that said, here are some things that you can learn from this man's folly so that you don't end up bear food. 1.  RECON YOUR AREA.   If you are going out into the woods, especially the backcountry (off trail, miles from people, etc.), then do some research before you go.  Recon is more than just "looking around an area."   ** Investigate the area via the internet....

 Hello and welcome to another edition of Random Word.  This time, the random word is Observe.  I will define it, and then discuss how the word applies to Tabletop Gaming, Fishing, and 3D Printing. Observe defined by Merriam-Webster has several 'definitions', two of which jump out in the context of our subject: **  to watch carefully especially with attention to details or behavior for the purpose of arriving at a judgment **  to conform one's action or practice to (something, such as a law, rite, or condition)  :  comply with Definition Link How this applies to tabletop gaming comes in two-fold.  The first is best described by the second of the above definitions - conforming or complying with actions/practices, namely the rules of the tabletop game in question.   This "complying with rules of the game" has been mistrusted over the last decade or so.  With the evolution of Games Workshop and Wizards of the Coast, and all of their res...

Recently, i read a few articles about truckers protesting in the Midwest, Cali, and other big "trucker ports."  Truckers park at the pump, refuse to move, and/or the company they work for refusing to support the trucking.  So this Friday Night Fight Blog Post, im gonna ramble on about the trucker strikes vs the larger agenda.  Disclaimer is this might come off a bit conspiracy theorist and condescending. Here's one of many links.  I encourage you to Google more:   Trucker's Haven ------------------------------------------------------- Logistics is one of the main arteries of anything, second to the backbone of communication.  Grounds shipping has been more effective weight-to-distance-to-fuel consumption than most other ways, like flying.  This is why overnight air costs far more than standard ground when you ship something via FedEx. There's a big agenda push by the Feds, POTUS, and the corporate backers behind said government to stop using fos...

 This week on Friday Night Fights, I bring to you a new swing in the ever growing battle between the Federal Government's attempt over control over all VS States and the management of their land and resources.  This time around, it is Federal Government Vs. Subsistence Fishing and Hunting in Alaska. The US Department of the Interior Melissa Schwarts prepared a statement where (i'm summarizing this) she accused the ADFG of allowing subsistence fishing of the Kuskokwim river, which is part of the Yukon River Systems, which is in violation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Title 8.  Her reasoning is because of PREDICTED low numbers of Chum and Chinook salmon that now require limited openings to federally qualified rural residents. In other words......  control. The area in question is home to several different villages where subsistence fishing is a way of life and engrained into these villages, and their peoples' cultures for many generations....

Alright everyone, it's happened twice, so it's time to write about it.  I'm all about using 3D printers to create amazing things, but I have a serious problem with this one. In the last week I've read three articles involving "CULTURED MEAT" involving technology and it really kind of has me chapped a bit.  I'm chapped because it's technology that I'm interested in and it's cool tech, but is it the wrong tech? I've decided I'm going to call these articles out and discuss some finer points, namely from a food sustainability point of view, and I'll let you decide if the cool tech is worth it or just some corporation trying to destroy things again. pic courtesy Emerging Tech Brew; this is the Cultured Meat Factory The first article comes to me courtesy of the Emerging Tech Brew.  It posted the following article:  Challenges in Scaling Cultivated Meat...  (I paraphrase titles of links).  Reading over the article, and digging into the tec...

 Welcome to Green-Up in Interior Alaska everyone.  With that said, I'm here to write about the rapid melt that is happening and causing quite a bit of commotion through the Interior region. First to speak of on this is what rapid melt causes.  In the Interior, we had a record amount of snow.  The highest point on the measure was 100" of snow.  That's three full feet over your average person and still enough snow to bury Shaq.   Even in a normal scenario, it is not uncommon to get 3-5 feet of snow a year.  All this snow has to go somewhere in the spring and summer. When rapid heat moves in afterwards, this snow melts, causing a trickling effect.  I use those words in that place because if you were to go up to the high points, and it's the end of May right now, you would see big blogs of snow with trickling streams of water coming from underneath it.  These trickling streams merge, then merge again, and eventually dump into the river, caus...