Randy | December 27, 2010
Nature demands balance. She is neither wasteful nor inefficient, and She isn’t interested in the how of things so much as She is in finding the most efficient path to a necessary outcome. Life is an exercise in energy management, and there can often be more than one right answer to the same problem. This […]
Randy | November 20, 2010
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon, 1942 ~ If you follow me here, then you know I regularly encounter subject matter that’s too big for one article to hold. Well, I’m at […]
Randy | October 22, 2010
A friend of mine just today referred to Russell Williams as “a flying monster”. I suppose so, but now he’s one monster that will never fly again, even though I personally wouldn’t mind taking him for one last ride far out over the north Atlantic. And here’s another dark sentiment for you – I wouldn’t […]
Randy | August 27, 2010
I’ve never been one to become bored by my own company. I was quite young when I realized that being alone wasn’t boring, and that to truly know boredom I had to be in the company of other people. For most of my childhood, and all of what has so far passed as my adult […]
Randy | November 8, 2009
When “Pure” scientific research results in a body of documented work that lacks any immediate real world application in the form of a problem to be solved, it can enter the realm of knowledge that, for all intents and purposes, does not exist. With the passing of time it gathers dust and, unless later unearthed […]
Randy | September 8, 2008
For your edification dear readers, this is a selection of words of wisdom, presented in no particular order, that have stuck to me along the way. No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~ Zen saying If your anger goes forth, withhold your sword; If your sword goes forth, withhold your anger. ~ swordsman’s […]
Randy | September 3, 2008
There’s an old saying: “Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.” On 5 July 2007, Sea Kayaking the Inside Passage posted this story on their website under the heading, Kayaker Fights Off Starving Wolf. As a wilderness survival instructor, and bush traveller of no small experience, I read this article […]
Randy | September 2, 2008
This website is an outlet for a man, blessed by The Gods and disdainful of the clods. It’s the lectern of one who, like some hoary old primate in a tree, has finally reached that level of enlightenment from which he feels unapologetically compelled to fling turds of wisdom upon all who pass by. Each […]