Kestrachern

This coming Saturday, January 17, 2009 TampaBloggers (they’re on Twitter too) is hosting the next Tampa Bay area Tweetup!   This time it’s at MOSI in Tampa.  It’s going to be a special after-hours party at the museum with special access to the top of the IMAX dome giving an 80 foot high 360 degree view of [...]

Monday night I picked up two new kayaks from KayakNature!  You see, you can’t be an official resident of Gulfport, Florida until you own your own kayak and take it out on Boca Ciega Bay. (In the same way you can’t truly be from San Francisco unless you are a web designer, DJ, massage therapist, fire spinner, [...]

  This weekend I gained a set of complementary presents…  First off it’s citrus season here in Florida and the oranges and grapefruit are everywhere.  I’ve been given access to quite the trove of fresh grapefruit.. but then the question is what to do with it after you peel it (aside from eating it)  Enter the second [...]

I found myself listening to NPR radio this morning and to the story of a man who having suffered a stroke that damaged his occipital cortex. Testing has confirmed that he has no conscious site.  Yet..  researchers found that he is able to navigate around obstacles, perhaps using subconscious portions of his brain.   The video [...]

I like the song “Turn the Page”.  Its one of the great ballads portraying a musicians life on the road.  However for there is a lyric right in the middle of the song that irks me “Sometimes you can’t hear them talk, other times you can”  Weak. HELLA weak.  The song could have used a [...]