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O.K., speaking as a very frequent flyer, I’m quite pleased that Kevin Martin, the FCC Chairman, has suggested that the FCC hold off on lifting the in-flight call ban. Evidently, the proposal was based on installing picocells within each plane. However, there are numerous cellular frequencies and the picocells wouldn’t be able to handle all […]

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Of course, the big basketball tourney that’s underway is the NCAA Tournament. But right here in Alaska, we have our own little version of March madness - the State High School basketball championships. The State tourney is a ton of fun. Basketball is very big in Bush Alaska. All of the villages have high […]

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It’s the first day of Spring! And of course, it’s snowing! However, the temperature warmed up - today’s high was a downright tropical 28 degrees.
To celebrate, Tyge, Peter, and I went cavorting in the snow along the Coastal Trail this evening after work. Tyge and Peter ran four miles and I skied 8K - a […]

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Well - today’s national news day was totally dominated by the Juneau-Douglas school district-free speech case “Bong HIts 4 Jesus” that was heard this morning before the Supreme Court. Alaska being Alaska, we know several of the lawyers on the school district side - but fortunately, not Ken Starr. I have to say, if I […]

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Poor Mom. Yesterday, she was scheduled to fly Outside to Seattle. She was going to be down there for a week doing Slinglerland stuff. Well, yesterday afternoon, well after Mom was supposed to be in the air, I received a call - she was at the airport and needed a ride home. Hmmm…this was odd. […]

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Yesterday and today’s games did quite a bit of damage: my Midwest bracket is in smoldering ruins. The only active team I have left in that bracket is Florida. Wisconsin’s loss was particularly painful. My West and East brackets are in better shape - the only thing that killed me today was the Texas loss […]

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It was below zero this morning when I took Tygey out to do his business. I had to massively bundle up - which I haven’t had to do in the past two weeks. It was certainly not below zero in Florida or Seattle or even Denver. Heck, yesterday in Seattle I noticed that their cherry […]

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I flap my wings back north this evening. But if it weren’t for Peter and Tyge, I might have come up with a good reason to stay here comparatively warm Seattle. I got a voice mail from my Mom this morning, their thermometer was registering 18 below zero at 8:00 AM this morning. ugh…
Via the […]

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I spent last night in my hotel room putting together my NCAA Tourney picks. I actually spend a bit of time doing research etc. The key to bracketolgy success is to make a few intelligent stabs at longshot selection. For example, one of my longshots is Oral Roberts - I think this must be the […]

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Oooh - Lance Mackey just won the Iditarod!!!! What a feat - winning the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod within a month of each other. Unprecedented!

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