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Sunrise, Bandon Oregon — Day 1 of the honeymoon pics

Posted in Oregon, Oregon Coast, photos, tagged , , , on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Billions of pics from the honeymoon on the way. Here is the first round… Opening morning

We stayed our first night at the Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast. I woke up at dawn and took some photos of the lighthouse and the crab boats going out.

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Pay to play trout porn

Posted in photos, tagged on September 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Caught these pigs last weekend — haven’t written the trip up on Oregon Fly Fishing Blog yet, but thought they’d make a good bit o fish porn:

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Palin = Republicans are idiots — Sorry Alex

Posted in politics, tagged , , on September 18, 2008 | 16 Comments »

So a buddy of mine has a tagline in his gmail chat box that read: Dems, quit calling Reps idiots, not helping. While I can understand the sentiment, I have to disagree. It’s like saying, “Journalists stop scrutinizing the Bush administration — he’s just going to do what he wants anyway.” Somebody has to say [...]

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Obama Loaf at Eugene City Bakery

Posted in Oregon, eugene, photos, politics, tagged , , , on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Obama Loaf from Eugene City Bakery!

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Fern Ridge, maiden voyage of the Boston Whaler

Posted in Oregon, Oregon Fishing, eugene, photos, tagged , on September 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »

My bro just showed up in Oregon (*see previous posts) and he’s brought the boat. An old 1960s, 14-foot Boston Whaler skiff. We plan to do quite a bit of tidewater and bay fishing on the Oregon coast with the boat this fall, but brought it out to nearby Fern Ridge Reservoir to work out [...]

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Photos: Owen Memorial Rose Garden in Eugene, OR

Posted in photos, tagged , , , on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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Footwear challenges, town run steelhead

Posted in Family, Oregon Fishing, eugene, photos, tagged , , , on September 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »

After spending the past couple years in NYC, my brother hasn’t acquired the proper footwear for Eugene, Oregon:

We spent the evening with Rob from Angler’s Book Supply on the Eugene town-run, fishing for steelhead. We tried swinging flies, but didn’t hook up. Rob got a nice one on a jig though:

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Time to pull the trigger folks: Get signed up for the tournament

Posted in Conservation, Oregon Fishing, tagged , , on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The first annual McKenzie River Two-Fly Tournament will take place October 3-4, 2008 on the McKenzie River. Organized by The Caddis Fly Angling Shop and Trout Unlimited Chapter 678 (McKenzie River, Upper Willamette Chapter), proceeds from this inaugural event will fund restoration projects on the McKenzie River.

The tournament organizers have partnered with the Eugene based [...]

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Nate is here now

Posted in Family, Oregon Fishing, photos, tagged , , , on September 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

My little bro just moved in from the East Coast — living the Lebowski life. We got the lines wet yesterday with The Mule (who is no longer allowed to call me “plus thirty”).

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AOL Instant Messenger and subliminal GOP advertising

Posted in politics, tagged , , , on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have to use AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) for work — we use it to talk to reporters, editors, etc. Recent versions of AIM started downloading “AIM-bots” basically spam buddies that have some kind of headline in their “away” messages that you can read any time you’re looking at your buddy list.
I recently noticed [...]

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