eric1978

Some vegans just don't dig meat and meat products (dairy), and others consider it a healthier lifestyle...it's not always driven by an animal-rights philosophy. I can't live without meat, and I don't care if it kills me, but I ain't gonna knock somebody for eatin' veggies.

As usual, you're asking me for information that is readily available at your fingertips if you'd invest about 30 seconds of research. But fine. You want it, you got it. Here are a couple reasons to think twice about nuclear power plants. Accidents DO happen, and people DO suffer as a result of them. How would you feel if that happened to YOUR kid? There are vastly more disturbing images out there...go check 'em out. Effects of Chernobyl:

I try to not bother arguing with you as much as possible, because your forcefield of denial is impenetrable...so it's not really worth my time responding. Needless to say, you calling me dense in a sentence written at a 3rd grade skill level struck me as too ironic to pass up.

It's you're. That's the contraction for you are. I'm dense.

Yeah, I'm sure they'll make it a feature on the next model as soon as I buy the old one, and I'd wait for it if I had been born with the virtue of patience...alas, I was not. I resized your photo again, Ollie. It's a nice pic...obviously not the crispest shot in the world (good enough for me, though). I think there's a lot of luck involved in taking stills with the GoPro. But with the 2/5/10/30 second automatic shots, you can just let 'er rip automatically and you'll probably get a few out of each group that look good. I've been scouring the net for stills taken with a GoPro, and some of them turn out spectacular. But again, I'm more interested in the video features anyway, and the GoPro footage is obviously killer.

Yeah, I sure wish they would have just incorporated the LCD into the GoPro design...it really will be a cube if you attach the piggy-back. But I still think I'm leaning towards the GP, because right now I'm more interested in video than stills. I found the GP Motorsports on ebay for $225, and I'm pretty close to buying after flipping the couch cushions about a dozen times.

I'm thanking my lucky stars we're gonna escape the heavy icing. In '06 my in-laws stayed with us for days on end when their power went out ...a lot of the lines in St. Peters are buried, so we never lost power. A blessing or a curse? Looks like we'll just be getting a giant snow. Fine with me.

Sorry if I misunderstood. I guess I just assumed after I read "leftist eco-nazis" that you were somewhere out in right field with Rush. I'm with you on the nuclear, as long as it's NIMBY and east of St. Louis. I don't need my baby growing a third arm out of her forehead...she already has two where they belong.

They lobby against alternative energy, and quite effectively.

Yeah, his biggest (and basically only) economic screw up, trying to be a "centrist" and playing footsies with Newt and the other American job exporters.

Oops...It appears I need to brush up on my time-travel technology. Thanks for the correction.

Neither will the oil companies, so your boys on the right won't have it either. And if we had the will, we could boycott or tariff Chinese and Indian products until they got their environmental act together...they need the US to sell all their cheap garbage to, and I for one would be happy to pay a little more for higher quality products if they were made in the USA by American workers being paid a livable wage. But your boys on the right would never have that, either...too many uber-wealthy with overseas businesses would be affected.

Fix the leak and keep them laying around for when you need to loan them to a buddy, or stick 'em in the Flux Capacitor, go back in time and just get the Simms in the first place.

Those pickerel are such cool looking fish. I gotta get out and target them some day.

Thanks for all the advice fellas. Pretty sure I'm headed in the GoPro direction. I'll throw up some videos as soon as I have some footage, a little later in the year.

He should rent it out to himself, since this quote is about as worthy of mockery as any I've seen.

So anywhere there's no good fishing is a good place to drill huh? You know there are other types of ecosystems that are just as recreationally and ecologically valuable and just as loved by other people. You've got a typical case of NIMBY. If you were to say you'd sacrifice your favorite stream for a drilling operation, I'd take you seriously. But you don't want that, and anywhere else you decide would be a good place to destroy, someone else would feel how you feel about Crooked Creek. Drilling is not the answer to our long-term problems...that's another thing you should talk to a scientist about. We just don't have enough to make a real difference.

The number for the MDC Ozark Region office is (417) 256-7161. I can't remember the agent's name who's in charge of the fisheries, but he's very helpful and informative.

Hey GoPro guys, how crappy are the stills? Got any pics from one that you can throw up here? Obviously the video is killer. If they'd just add a couple features to the GoPro, like zoom and a screen so you could view what you've recorded, it'd be perfect.

Huh? They're not free for us...let me know where they're giving them away, wouldja? I hear there's a nice reserve under Crooked Creek. I say we go get it.

Yep, I saw it. No doubt he's a top-notch tyer...too bad he's such a pretentious douchebag. I learned that dubbing trick from the other Davie (McPhail). I really like the Kelly Galloup parts of the show, especially the streamer tips section. A friend of mine has fished with him and says he's a riot. They need to work on that intro though...yikes.

I'm with JD...what's the point? If you have a full partridge or hen or whatever, there's no need to worry about it. Just grab a hackle gauge and find the right size. Technically you should be stroking the barbels back as you wrap your hackle so they're not sticking up every which-way, thus allowing them to breathe more naturally in the water. If you have to use additional thread wraps to hold the barbels back, you're not hackling correctly...at least according to Davy Wotton.

My only hook in finger story worth telling... A few friends and I were hanging out one evening while camping God-knows-where. We were sitting on the tailgate of my truck, yukkin' it up and having more than a few drinks. I pulled out a Plano box that held my new Megabass collection, and one of my buddies got a Pop-Max treble buried nice and deep while trying to untangle it from several others. Being the tough guy he thinks he is, he just yanked it out along with a considerable helping of finger meat, and in order to keep his massive ego inflated to the appropriate size, he swore it didn't hurt at all. I said, "Wow, it looks like it would hurt, let me see it." He offered up his mutilated digit, and I reached out and squeezed that finger as hard as I could, and he screamed like a little girl. In retaliation he put his cigarette out on the tender flesh of my thigh, and I screamed like a little girl, too. I still have the scar. We all came out losers that night.

Compassion is a weakness? How very Christian of you.