Check this out: a clever british carpenter designed and built This contraption. It’s a floating island made from plastic bottles and bamboo that he built a landmass, house and other structures on. It’s brilliant! I’d love to retire to such a structure. I originally found the link on the mostly excellent BoingBoing. Start saving bottles, I’ll be looking for them in the years to come.
Archive for September, 2002
I’m not going to get longwinded about this, I just figure I will offer up a few observations about the upcoming season. Once again I don’t think the Giants will do well. Their secondary is weak and they’ve made offensive line changes that were needed but will take a season or more to take. Shockey will almost definitely have a very positive effect on their passing game but if the line can’t keep Collins safe (which it looks like they will have a lot of trouble with) then he will be giving the ball away again this season. This is also the year Ron Dayne needs to either put up the numbers or get lost. So far he’s been a bit of a bust. I don’t have a solid read on the linebreakers but I was very sorry to see Armistead go, he was and is a solid linebacker….
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Nick and I went kayaking this past sunday around Bailey’s island and had a great time. The weather was perfect and we had some nice 3-4 foot swells on one side of the island. I haven’t had a chance to process the images yet but I figured I would post something in the interim. This is a montage I took of the area we launched from. It started as about 8 images that I stitched together, none too cleanly but they’re good enough to give you a sense of the area. More to follow sometime this week.
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