David McCreath

So the Senate managed to [stave off](http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/21/arctic.drilling.ap/index.html) another attempt by our senior senator to shove ANWR drilling down our throats. My prediction is that Ted Stevens will die on the Senate floor some years down the road with an ANWR rider clutched in his cold, dead hand (and wearing his Hulk tie).

I made this from an animated GIF that I found out there somewhere. I just added the hat and the words. The band did all the work, being all spooky and badass. If someone knows who this band is, please leave a comment. Also feel, free to share it around.

Not just iPods, actually, but that’s what made me think of it. My computer does it. My VCR does it. I’ve had watches that could do it. Why can’t my iPod? Any device that contains both date and time and has some embedded programming capability should know that it needs to change its clock when we enter or leave Daylight Savings Time. For example, my iPod should be smart enough to know that if I set my time zone to “Alaska”, it needs to adjust on the correct days. I shouldn’t have to go into a separate menu and change my time zone from “Alaska” to “Alaska (DST)” or back. That’s particularly stupid, because why not just go in and change the hour by one click instead of changing the time zone? It couldn’t take that much more programming.

RV Public Relations

Originally uploaded by David McCreath.

Because who doesn’t want to see an INTRUDER pull into the camp site? Especially if the driver is 2 SEXY.

This was parked on the Spit in Homer.

I just got back from a cleaning and checkup, and I’m so happy I could squeal. For the last four years, I’ve been on tri-annual cleanings instead of semi-annual to keep my borderline gingivitis under control. Starting the day of my last cleaning, I was determined to get back to a semi-annual by flossing _every single day_ until my next cleaning. I very nearly hit that mark. I missed seven days total.
But the hygienist was seriously impressed (there was actually some improvement on a couple of teeth) and even though I still have one tooth with a 6mm gap (which is their normal flag for tri-annual vs. semi-annual cleanings), she said we could give it a shot and see how it goes.
So I go in next Monday to replace the last of my rotting, cracked metal fillings and then I don’t have to see the inside of my dentist’s office for *six whole months*. I haven’t been able to say that for four years.

Just to go on the record as an Alaskan, I believe that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is wrong.
* There’s not enough oil there to provide anything but a last gasp to the epoch of fossil-fuel power.
* What is there won’t be available for several years to come.
* The money that will be sunk into drilling there could produce alternate energy technologies that no one has even imagined.
* There are plenty of places left on the North Slope that are *not* protected habitat.
I wish I could figure out a way to express how important I think it is that some parts of the earth remain unexploited. I mean I wish I could express it in a way that would change someone’s mind.
I’m afraid that in my lifetime the majority of humanity will have reason to regret the way we’ve treated our home.
I’m riding my bike to work as often as I can.