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A Good Pair of Boots
Well, actually, two pair. The ones on the left are Hoffmans that I got from Baileys--they've got a steel toe, a rubber footwell, and thinsulate liners--tits boots in Winter. The others are Wesco...
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A Poor Man's Rope Guide
This is a "rope guide" or retrievable false crotch. The arborists doubled 1/2" line (orange) goes up through the halyard shackle, through the ART pulley, and down to the carabiner on the arborists...
View ArticleThree Reasons for Renewable Energy Now
The reasons for a cultural shift towards renewable energy are many and obvious. Let me give but three of these.In the first place, there is the argument that renewable--and by that I mean...
View ArticleTo Leave or to Fight?
The above link is to an article in the Nation online magazine which describes the present attempt of adjunct professors to organize under a union. I believe such an attempt will most certainly fail....
View ArticleThe Copper Standard
From Schott's bl;og, NY Times 4/17/09.Very interesting article describes China's stockpiling of copper with its currency. Clever fuckers, aren't they?
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Doctor's Park
Whiskey Dick and Cletus ride again! Look at those two sharpies on their shoulders.
View ArticleBelligerism
A man enters a bar and saddles up next to a big guy. The big guy turns to him and says, "stop staring at my girlfriend!"The man is looking at an empty row of seats and says, "what girlfriend? There's...
View ArticleThoughts on Just Leadership
Portland, OregonI have recently assumed the position of lead arborist with a tree care company in Portland. I am the foreman and I am in a position of leadership. A philosophical excursus on leadership...
View ArticleParrhesia in leadership
A certain employee, lets call him X, suggested that we take this Acer macrophyllum in one fell swoop. I disagreed and we took it in 3, so as to not risk damaging the awning on the veranda and the...
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An Old Growth Climb in Salmon River Valley, Mt. Hood
Douglas Fir, East fork Salmon River, dbh approx. 8 feet, height approx. 290 feet.Ryan, our friend who set the lineA mid level view--say 150 feet upUp the last pitch with the Kong.Coy moving quickly:...
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A Giant Oregon Bigleaf Maple Removal
Feng, MC of Ceremonies posing before the MapleA groundsman who came with us for the day. He had a red beard and enjoyed smoking.The maple, next to the professor's house seen in relief.Our...
View ArticleA Filed Coin
What value remains in a filed coin?The silver shaved and filedflakes and dust meticulously collectedmelted into another just like itLike it enough, anywayto fool the eye of the merchant.Fooled twice it...
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Hippies and the Cutting of Trees
The cutting of trees spawns strong moral reactions from some. Vlad, a seldom bathing semi-intellectual who is the housemate of my brother in Portland, informs us that one must "respect the tree" in...
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First Day Out
No fish today, but then again...who's counting? Topics discussed today: theological non-realism, epistemic justification, environmentalism, hippies, rednecks, strategies for steelhead success. The gold...
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A little skiing at Mt. Hood (photos courtesy of Stryder)
Mt. Hood Meadows, looking westward.Ross, Coy, and I in a warm fog...the snow was a damp powder.Feng, in a moment of existential bliss.
View ArticleHow Obama became a 'Nigger': How I became one too
At the end of the banquet days of Bush, after the gutting of the social contract, it was necessary that someone "clean up". Now, as Wendell Berry uses the term, a nigger is really just a labor-saving...
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