I grabbed the highest resolution satellite images I could get off of Terraserver, and stitched together a mosaic, and colourized the water, so now I have an Irondequoit Creek Map. It might be useful to carry this around on the river.
It’s so nice to renew your medical…
The Skerray RMX Kayak
After my very positive experience with the VCP Avocet RM, a couple of people suggested that the VCP Skerray RMX might be better for somebody of my advanced weight. It’s a bigger boat, with higher displacement, but similar lines.
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What you call flip-flopping I call personal growth
In today’s paper there is a columnist writing about every miniscule difference between John Kerry in 1984 and John Kerry in 2004. I don’t know about you, but if somebody had *exactly* the same opinions on everything that they did 20 years ago, I’d call them so pig-headed and stubborn that they don’t learn from experience, don’t change their opinion based on new evidence, and don’t grow personally.
So here’s a toast to John Kerry’s ability to think and reason and admit when his original position no longer makes sense based on new information.
In the aftermath
A couple of people have already asked me how I can feel safe flying if somebody of Bill Law’s years of experience can crash. A guy I know wrote this response to similar questions. It’s not exactly what I would have written, but it’s pretty close.
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