My suitcase arrived late Monday morning...missing my flashlight and Leatherman tool. In spite, I am in much better spirit given the presence of clean underpants ( Read more... )

I'm here in La Selva Biological Field Station, Costa Rica. The place and the wildlife are beautiful. American Airlines has lost my suitcase, anti-malarial and all. My classmates were good enough to collect some loaner clothing for me (two weeks in tropical jungles sporting the same unchanged duds would make me rather unpleasant in the odor ( Read more... )

I just don't do drugs, legal or otherwise (unless dark beers count...I do dark beers). When I had my wisdom teeth surgically carved from my jawbones, e.g., I took one of the prescription pain killers afterwards, and was so completely wiped out by it that I decided I preferred the discomfort and took no more. In preparation for my trip to Costa ( Read more... )

Vacation was a huge success. We fished, we hiked, we stopped by a brew-pub in Tahquamenon Falls State Park for tasty dinner on the way home. I love my little family and wish we could do more outdoorsy stuff together.

As a result, I missed August's informal gathering of the Columbus Guitar Society (CGS). Ah well...

The Ohio Chapter of the ( Read more... )

Ohio Sea Grant's agents and I met the Division of Wildlife to discuss their stance on Ohio HB 609 (the proposed buyout of Ohio's trapnetters) and the investigations and indictments that got us here. The meeting was less strenuous than I'd feared ( Read more... )

Kim Goodman and I play a wedding at the Graystone Wine Cellar on Saturday. I'm not such a fan of wedding gigs, but I've never been to Graystone and am keen to see it.

On Sunday, I'll be playing solo (rather casually) at The Santa Maria's Navigation Day festival. I'll be there 1-5 pm and don't yet know if anybody will help me in this effort, so I ( Read more... )

I'm going to stick my neck out with a little online rant. I don't want to give the wrong impression. I love transcription: love to hear it live or recorded, occasionally play it... Good transcription sounds pleasant and is rightfully marketable to a general audience that probably isn't familiar with obscure guitar or mandolin music. The best ( Read more... )

When I got home from the office the night of the 20th, I discovered my daughter had signed for the delivery of a certified letter. This letter was word of the inclusion of my biographic info in the coming edition of Who's Who in America. I don't really know how competitive this process is, and I don't know how commonplace inclusion is amongst ( Read more... )

From OSU Today - Headlines for Thursday, July 20, 2006:
CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS FOOD SHORTAGES IN AFRICAOhio State will host the First Annual BioCassava Plus Meeting Monday-Wednesday (24-26 July) at the Blackwell Inn. The meeting is open to the public from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday. Topics include malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, global health, plant ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of the notion of biodiesel. Biodiesel is produced from renewable vegetable oils and runs in existing and available technology: standard diesel engines with minimal conversion (like changing fuel lines, etc.). After conversion, this doesn't simply reduce the use of petroleum products (like ethanol fuel supplements do through dilution ( Read more... )