Great Canadian Ecoventures
Have you ever wondered what a cheesy pop song would sound like if you
midi-ized it and then added grunting caribou sounds to it in the
background? You could go here and find out. Or don’t
go, and say you did.
Maybe it is just possible to go camping on your own. Or maybe hook up
with some government organization. Or maybe some researchers. Anything but
this…
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Avalon Wilderness Reserve
So far I haven’t found the sort of data on Caribou movement that I’m
looking for. I think I might have to go and look at some
caribou.
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Tara Szkorupa- Caribou Researcher
Another
caribou researcher
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C. Cormack Gates- Caribou and Bison Researcher
A
researcher at the University of Calgary.
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Fairly Detailed General Caribou Information
A nice general but fairly detailed site.
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Rangifer tarandus
Here’s
some generic information on Caribou and Reindeer. The Reindeer is a
domesticated version of the Caribou. Who knew? Not me!
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Project Caribou
I’m learning about Caribou, since they are currently the animal of choice.
This site has
information for educators, but hopefully it will be useful for me, since
it has case studies on several herds. Hopefully I’m not on a wild goose
chase here… haha.
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Canoeing the Rideau Canal
I was saying to Colin the other day that I think it would be great to try
doing some canoing along the Rideau Canal. Now that many of our friends
have smaller additions to their families, it seems like a canoe route with
calm water and easy access to bed and breakfasts in nice towns at the end
of the day would be a welcome addition to the traditional Algonquin park
canoe adventures. Here’s
some info about trip planning.
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Inside Kids’ Culture
I’ve been telling folks about this neat book I found called “We’re
friends, right? Inside Kids’ Culture” by William A. Corsaro. It’s getting
sent back to the library, but I might be tempted to buy a copy, or just
look up some of his papers. Neat stuff.
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Fire Starting
with
flint and steel.
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Scoliosis and Yoga
I seem to be on a self improvement kick at the moment, at least if my blog
entries are anything to go by. On the physical front, every few months I
try to get into the habit of stretching on a regular basis. Then I give it
up, because no regular stretching exercise is compatible with my level of
flexibility (low would be a serious understatement). After a few days of
no results and lots of pain I give up.
This time around, though, I’ve realized that to get results I need to hold stretches for about ten minutes- not the thirty seconds usually suggested- and stretch gently- which means that I need lots of pillows and props and such so that the stretching isn’t too severe. In case you’re thinking I’m a complete wimp- that last suggestion came from my Yoga for Wimps book, so I can’t argue.
After doing stretches like this for a few days I’m starting to see some results. Right now I’m working on being able to sit with a straight back with my legs straight out in front of me. At the moment I can’t do either the straight back or the straight leg part, but that’s what I’m aiming for.
This site looks like
it has some good suggestions that will help me get there.
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House Tidying
More on house tidying. I have been thinking about my house cleaning (and
house messing!) behaviours. To analyze them (a la Spock), I created this questionnaire:
Write the percentage of time each of the following happens (The percentages should add up to 100):
If something in the house is out of place (i.e. not clean and/or not living in the place it usually lives)
Emotional Intelligence
Whether or not you believe in emotional intelligence as a psychological
concept, I found this list
discussing the signs of high and low EQ to be insightful. In the past few
years I’ve been working hard on raising my EQ, as defined by this list. I’m
getting there but I
still have a ways to go :).
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Info on Elk
Lots of
info on Elk
behaviours although a bit heavy handed with the evolutionary reasoning.
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Ungulate Behaviour
I’m narrowing down my thesis topic yet again. At the moment I’m thinking
about focusing on ungulate behaviour (deer, caribou, wildebeest, etc.)
because it will be easier to model in two dimensions rather than three (as
I would need to do for fish and birds).
Here’s a very generic
page on ungulate behaviour, including some useful information about
danger and running signals.
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Hellboy
I just saw the Hellboy movie and enjoyed it, contrary to what was
suggested by many snarky imdb reviews. It helps that I like the comic book
in the first place. I just found some of the comics
online.
Nice. Not sure why they’re on the playboy site though…
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Vitamins and IBS
This
is good to know if you have IBS, which I do.
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Cooking and reheating rice
This is
definitely one of the best descriptions of how to cook and reheat rice
that I have ever come across.
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So much for not refrigerating rice
A while back I debated about whether or not it was safe to eat
unrefrigerated rice. At the time I did eat the rice, after stir frying it,
and had no problems. If
this site is correct, however, it might not be such a good idea. It’s
so hard to know when these things are serious, and when it’s mostly fear
mongering. Argh.
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New Cello
I’ve decided to trade my cello in for a three-quarter size. It should make
playing in certain keys much easier, and will no doubt only encourage me
to play more frequently.
This person
looks promising, since he already specializes in making smaller
instruments. Of course, it will depend on the price, relative to the price
I can get for my current instrument.
This person is also a
possibility, terrible website aside.
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Spring Cleaning!
The appearance of warm weather has given a boost to my ongoing war against
the clutter monster.
My big motivator in this is that I know Colin and I aren’t going to live
in this apartment forever, and after our experience of moving twice in
three months, I vowed that moving would never be that painful again. The
cure? Clutter must die! And so, my battle continues…
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Ooh! Ooh! Field Trip
To really identify plants, you need someone to say, “See that plant? It’s
a floopy floopy plant”. So these field
trips could be fun. Certainly triggers my summer camp nostalgia…
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One person’s weeds…
This is a great
site for plant identification because it shows what plants look like
when they first come out of the ground. Ironically, I think this is a lawn
care site, so the idea is that you should be able to recognize them and
then eradicate them :).
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Cattail Pics
Here’s
a site with some useful pics and further gathering and eating
instructions.
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Cattails
I went to check on the cattails in the arboretum today. I want to see when
they start growing around here. Possibly one or two shoots but things are
still pretty quiet. I want to learn more about their growing cycle and
appearance at different times of the year. They are edible (shoots, root,
flower,
pollen) and can be used in a vast number of ways.
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Blah?
That stands for ‘Bachelors Living at Home’, in case you were wondering. I
can’t tell if this site is a joke or not.
They *seem* to be pretty serious about having a magazine for blahs,
though.
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Website design
I’ve been looking and thinking about website design recently. I am
alternately aggravated and fascinated by it. Why do I like this website
and not that one? Why does this one look professional, and that one
amateur? I recently discovered the existence of website templates, which
have seriously fueled this fire, because templates are all layout and no
content by definition and they are designed with the purpose of appealing
to people.
Here’s a vast array of
‘amateur’ templates, submitted to the open source web design community.
Most of them are blog oriented, but they do get your layout muscles
working.
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Peep Research
As a fan of philsophy of science and also of ‘making fun of science’, I
love
this site. In particular, the
section on
fear response.
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The Gaia Group
Although that last link was a tad stale, it did lead me to the still
existing Gaia Group,
an ecological architecture firm with offices in Scotland and
Norway.
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Ecological Building in cold climate
Great to see some interest in
Ecological Building in cold climates. Maybe I’ll e-mail these folks
and see if I can incorporate their information into my site.
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