Archive for March, 2006

Pair of Kings

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Two weeks ago I wrote that wasn’t feeling so great; I’d just come third at the weekly poker night. Tonight I avenged my loss, managing to out-draw Dave with a pair of Kings to take the $100 pot. Hooray!
I was also setting up to print the Dominators singlets. But, I have to come clean [...]

Larry and his little sister, Watti

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

There’s a couple of cyclones about at the moment. These have coincided with the failure of a hard drive at www.solutionsfirst.com.au. Needless to say, I haven’t been able to bring the usual high-rate coverage of the following dramatic events:
1. the closure of the JCU campus for one day;
2. the movement of Helge’s honey bee hives [...]

“Real men don’t wear waders –

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

they wear camo…” - Paul Arden.
I think that the guys over at sexyloops.com really are onto something. Together they are uniting the underground of fly-fishing and breaking down the old-school, with new-school technical. This reminds me of the similar evolution of skateboarding. In the early 90s, method grabs and handplants turned into kickflips and tailslides, [...]

Erika Yamasaki

Monday, March 13th, 2006

I’m sorry, but you’re not strong until you can lift twice your body weight in the clean and jerk. Erika Yamasaki can. If she takes out gold at the Commonwealth Games next week, I nominate her for an honourary dominators singlet. In fact, I nominate her anyway. Here’s a video of her in action, breaking [...]

Lake Placid, here we come.

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Yesterday I realised to my great distress that the submission date for the 2006 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting had shut on 10 January. I wrote up a quick abstract about Wet Tropics fish and climate change and shot it off to the organisers. Luckily, I got the following reply this morning:
Hi Tom,
You’re in luck–we [...]