Somebody won the Superbowl!

I’m celebrating that it’s over. Yay!

Post-game chatter about the game, the half-time event, the commercials, all go here. I’ll stay out of it, not knowing anything about it.

I guess the biggest news about the football game was Madonna’s performance at the half-time. Here it is.

It was cheesy, overblown, grandiose pop. She delivered exactly what was expected of her, competently and with talent. I don’t quite understand all the hating that’s been going on — is it just that women over 40 are always going to get slammed for not being women under 20?

Episode CCXCVII: FREEDOM!

Octopus escapes! Everyone cheer!


We caught this Octopus in a shrimp trap here in Alaska. It had crawled in through a 3 inch opening and terrorized our catch of spot prawns, killing and eating several of them, and then, attached itself to the bait jar and unscrewed the lid to open for dessert of prepared shrimp bait pellets! We decided to let this brilliant creature go (option was to eat it! …yum!) as I respected it’s intelligence and genius. We set it on the deck and let it “escape” on it’s own… Cool fun with a sea creature!

Episode CCXCVI: Cowboys & Creationists.

I guess this is Peter Grant’s blog now

He’s not writing anything on it; in fact, he doesn’t seem to be contributing anything at all. But he has created a blog that siphons off every single thing posted on Freethoughtblogs and reposts it on his personal site.

I’m generous with the content here — lots of people have asked to repost individual entries, and as long as they give full attribution, I’m fine with that. But sucking up all the content of a whole bunch of sites and dumping it to your own? Not cool. Not cool at all.

We also make this easy for people to do, because we allow full content in our RSS feed. You like that? Well, we could change it if it continues to provide an easy entry for parasites. You might want to let Peter Grant know that his efforts could induce us to tighten up what we publish on our feed. Maybe you’re one of those people who just love abbreviated RSS feeds — be sure and thank him if that’s the case!