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Basque??? BBC article here. The US' Basque immigrants turned to sheepherding in order to survive. Today, their legacy can be found in unique wooden tree carvings they left throughout the American West.

My neighbour up the street and I have begun nominally going to the range every couple of weeks. Pistol range was empty (as usual) when we got there in the morning but after a while a couple of other guys arrived. My buddy brought his 686 and Model 10; I had my Model 14, 625 (.45 AR), GP100 and...

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." Man asks ChatGPT for advice on how to cut salt, ends up in hospital with hallucinations When asked what could be a substitute for the chloride in table salt, ChatGPT suggested that he use sodium bromide. A 60-year-old man asked ChatGPT...

By the end of July, state had 713,195 active concealed pistol licenses. Article here The number of Washingtonians licensed to carry concealed pistols is climbing rapidly in the face of a new state law that will require prospective gun owners to secure a state permit before...

A big 'un - about 3 metres with arms extended. Two videographers say they were left speechless after an incredible encounter with a giant Pacific octopus in Nanoose bay on Vancouver Island. The cinematic moment was captured on camera, when the octopus assumed the role of director. “It came...

Home security video captured a feisty little Pomeranian fearlessly chasing a black bear out of a Vancouver home after it ate the dog’s food. Link here. My gf saw it on a FB post and one oerson commented:

AP article here The 10-stamp series announced on Thursday celebrates some of the troupe’s most iconic characters and catchphrases, from “Nudge, nudge” to “The Lumberjack Song.” Palin said he was “very glad to share a stamp with the nude organist!”

That's about 745k miles. Story here. He has an '86 as a spare and three others for parts. It's not just that it runs perfectly, or that it's practically in mint condition. The only thing wrong with this Tercel is that the odometer doesn't go up high enough. It reads 253,070. But it's missing a...

AP article here Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl...

Bet it kept the bears away :) Article here A search and rescue call in Kelowna's Boulderfields area turned out to be a lone camper singing to himself in the woods. His music of choice? Canadian rock group Nickelback. Two hikers had contacted 911 after hearing what sounded like “repeated...

B.C. brush fire sparked by bird dropping fish on power lines, firefighters say Firefighters in B.C.'s Interior believe they have identified the cause of a small brush fire and power outage — an osprey and a fish. ..."We get out there and right at the base of the pole, we find this charred...

Another great gone :) AP article here

On this date the British Royal Family officially changed their name from "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to the more prosaic (and English) "Windsor", after 3 years of murderous unpleasantness with King George's cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm. This resulted in King Bill displaying a rare example of humour, declaring...

Probably many of you are aware of this controversy. The US state of Virginia saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on historic lands, the environment and local communities. BBC article here.

OK, maybe I'm the only one... Those little packages of threaded tubes and nuts etc. are pricey. Turns out the specs on those things go back to the 19th c when gas was used for lighting. They're IPS (Iron Pipe Size / NPS (National Pipe Straight). When they went to electric light, the specs were...

I'll admit, I'd be tempted (even without the model). Might be a heck of a burglar deterrent, too.

One for the astronomy and photo buffs. Gift NYT article here. (Link corrected) The observatory will produce about 20 terabytes of data every night.

I should ckeck in the dark corners of my reloading room more often. A friend moved over to the Gulf Islands (BC) about 15 years ago. Nowhere to shoot over there and he hadn't done mjuch recently even here. He took his few guns but propellants etc. weren't allowed on the ferries except on...

Boa constrictor Bailey, reported missing at Tofino beach, turns up in owner’s kayak It is not clear how someone could miss a six-foot-long snake inside a kayak. A six-foot-long boa constrictor [was] on the loose after slithering away at Tofino’s Chesterman Beach on Vancouver Island’s West...

Story here. The young female was dubbed "Mackenzie" after the B.C. community about 100 kilometres north of Prince George where she is believed to have stowed away in the wreckage of a small plane crash... The porcupine was only discovered after the wreckage was taken to a salvage yard in...