It’s common to joke about toothless hockey players. But some of the injuries that keep NHL team dentists busy are no laughing matter. Check out this story from the Toronto Globe and Mail for the brutal details …
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Month: May 2010
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Two cool tools for Mac geeks …
A few gems I stumbled on while surfing this week:
Gruml: I switched from Bloglines to Google News long ago as my RSS reader of choice. But although Google News was superior for managing my feeds, I missed Bloglines’ user interface. Gruml gives me the best of both worlds, allowing me to read and manage Google News through Gruml. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and the only thing I’m not liking about it is the email function. I constantly email items I find in feeds to friends, and Google News makes that very simple. Gruml has that feature, but I don’t like it as much. It sends the URL to the feed and in a sample I just sent, the URL was so long it broke and wasn’t clickable in the email. I think I can live with that, but it’s a glitch I’d like to see fixed. The app currently is free. Definitely worth a test drive if you use Google News on the Mac.
Witch: Most Mac users quickly learn the command-tab trick to toggle among open apps. Witch puts this on steroids, allowing you to toggle not only among apps, but also among open documents in apps. I’ve been using it for a few days and fully intend to pay the $15 they want for it. The demo version works for 250 switches, and then a payment nag starts popping up. I tried using Mac’s Spaces to solve this problem but always found it weird and buggy. Witch allows me to hop from item to item on my computer fluidly. It’s a keeper.
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Wake-up call
As I paddle past groggy, grumpy herons, I see an osprey take flight at the entry to Duck Cove. I hope this means they’re nesting somewhere in the trees up on Saltpeter Bluff.
It’s a perfect morning. Sunrise is shooing away the fog that settled on the water overnight, and I realize how long it’s been since I’ve been on the water at daybreak. To my mind, it’s without a doubt the best time to paddle. Dorsal fins slice through pollen-stained water. A muskrat swims parallel to me along the shore. Kingfishers, titmice and swallows percolate overhead. To think, I almost opted for another slog on the elliptical instead of going down to the dock and dropping the kayak in the water …
I decide to paddle over to Prater Flats, crossing the main channel of Loudon and hugging the south shore until I reach the entrance to the Flats. From there, I head up to International Harbor Marina (not sure what’s international about it) in Friendsville. I paddle around Prater Flats for a while before deciding to head home. All told, it’s 9.7 miles of bliss. I can’t wait to do it again.
Here’s a GPS/Google Earth image of my route …
