A brown trout in a net
Brown trout red and black spots
A very colorful rainbow trout in a net
A creek in the forest
I caught many fish this weekend, mostly on a fiberglass rod. The highlight though was a 14" brown trout, rare for western Oregon, on a dry fly.
The orthodontist asked, so I put my "I worked for CENTCOM, so I'm well acquainted with dumbshittery" hat and let it rip.
Just went on a loud, rant about what a fucking moron Trump is and how dumb everything going on with Iran is at my kids' orthodontist appointment. The phrase "spiritually small penis" might have been used. Little treat for all the kids and families on a Friday afternoon.
Sadly, I have seen several of these people thrive in professional and social environments because they have a tiny sprinkle of charisma. Once people sink a bit of cost in them, they just keep going.
I refuse to believe that Philip Hamburger isn't a character played by Gregg Turkington.
Love this. The SCV can eat shit.
A view upstream on the Rogue River on a sunny day from the middle of the river
A rainbow trout in a net with a parachute adams in its mouth
A rainbow trout in a net with a shakey beeley in its mouth
Fly fishing is so cool.
They're taking dry flies and hitting attractor soft hackles on the swing. I'll be doing this the rest of the summer.
I had limited experience working with Five and Nine Eyes intelligence services and would run through walls for them.
I have bothered my mom about this. Her family farmed in Canada and the US, moving back and forth. Her grandfather was born in Alberta, which has difficult rules on obtaining documents. I need to convince my very elderly grandmother or great aunt. But also working from my wife's side for our kids.
The head of a rainbow trout in a net
The head of a rainbow trout in a net
a rainbow trout in a net
A few Rogue River rainbows I had the pleasure to meet recently.
A March brown mayfly nymph on the bottom of a rock
A March brown (I assume) spinner
Mayflies are so cool
A view of light riffles looking upstream standing in the river. Trees line both shores and there are hills in the distance.
A view upstream of a boulder strewn creek on a sunny day.
A view of thousands of white dogwood blooms.
Oregon is a hellscape. Stay away.
Never forget what they took from you.
But not from me because I found a sick ass brown pair from 1981 at the thrift store today.
From one former national security official to another... Come the fuck on. DHS was rotten from day one. You know this. You're a senator. Propose something new and better. Hell, propose we go back to the days when it didn't exist and its functions were handled by better agencies.
Lol. I've had a few patients complain that I got something done too quickly. I always tell them I could pretend I'm doing something and periodically poke them if they want to stick around.
This is the kind of place we would sentence certain criminals to if the eighth amendment didn't forbid such horrible punishments.
Remember when the same message about inflation won Joe Biden a second term in a huge landslide?
And before the primary election, a lot of the left attacked him for being outwardly Christian. It just feels like this has been officially labeled a "problem" that means the left cannot support him.
I had to stop listening to them during the 24 campaign. They started to feel like they suffer from Chapo-adjacent audience capture.
We probably can't generate new teeth predictably. Implants will probably be cheaper and more predictable for decades.
Teeth aren't tissues that constantly grow and the regeneration is not like what happens in other tissue in the body. It's largely chemistry. They contain living tissue like elsewhere in the body, but when the body finishes forming the tooth, it's static.
As an aside, I have no idea what their software is like now. My opinion of all these tools is that they were no better than the analysts using them and the quality of the analysts was generally very poor.
I sat in a pitch from Palantir back when Bush was president. They believed in whatever the fuck the current thing is if it sells more of their stupid software.
That was always a pet peeve of mine. For the work most of us were involved in, "Afghan" wasn't even a useful term. Interactions were with much narrower groups.
It's an outlier, but... I was hired by CENTCOM for expertise in countries in their area of responsibility, and the way the military thinks about culture in general is a hot mess. Better than society at large, but not much deeper than Atlantic articles or airport nonfiction bestsellers.
I feel like I had one story like that every day I worked at CENTCOM.
Taking notes... Sounds like we should depopulate the western United States except for some small coastal slices.
The Facebook commenting bots/brigades were saying this yesterday. They're going with this. Their rebuttal to reporting is that whatever outlet reports the US did it is biased.
I'm a dentist and get this with fluoride and root canals. I've seen kids in pain. They feed their kids energy drinks and sugary foods. They would rather subject their children to pain and tooth loss than admit they made a mistake. I think we can pass judgment.
I think a coercive environment where we are comfortable not hurting feelings about this is good though. The evidence is overwhelming. These people are doing harm and we should just say it.