I used custom techniques I learned from my mom, including using rubber cement to make batik-style patterns, to color some eggs. This was thanks to Ann who gave me a basket of eggs with a card, some dye, and said rubber cement. In the end they really didn’t look too bad, but I must say…

This is an easy one. This tree has a been a foothills friend to me in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. It’s distinctive size and appearance made it one of the first trees I learned. These trees can get big, up to 300 feet tall, but most are in the 100-150 foot range. They…

Not long ago I started using Bloglines to read blogs and various other internet sites of interest to me. A lot of sites I like are “Link Blogs” that mostly link to other interesting stuff with a little commentary. The hobolog is not that kind of blog, but Bloglines makes it easy to publish a…

Up until now, my associate links to Amazon (mostly from movie and book reviews) have generated one DVD sale, resulting in $0.72 for cyberhobo.net! BLING BLING! I never expected to get rich from these links which are really intended as a way to get more information about the subject of the post. So I was…

I recently took Amazon up on their offer to sell my books after I’ve read them. I had accumulated more books than will fit on my shelf, and was contemplating giving them away anyway. Instead, I listed them for sale on Amazon at the current lowest price and sat back to see what would happen.…

I’ve been inspired by my Mom’s book, Great Lakes Nature, to start identifying a new plant on my outings. For this one, I picked the tree behind Jezze in this picture. I’ve also taken a closeup of the needles and cones of the tree, and the bark. Each cone has a single seed inside. Anyone…

It seems that the gutbuster was not my fate today, but that of my esteemed colleague Matt. I was curious to see how a gutbuster is made. The recipe appears to be two 12″ steamed tortillas overlapped a bit and stuffed with about four pounds of rice, beans, potatoes, carnitas, cheese, and salsa. Matt made…

This will be the first superbowl ever that means something to me. If the sum of the scores of the game end in ‘3’ or ‘6’, I’ll have to attempt to eat a ‘gutbuster’ burrito from Big City Burritos, but I won’t have to pay for it. If not, I have to pitch in for…

This is a really great, deep movie if only you decode the hidden meaning! Ha ha, just kidding. Despite some funny political satire and a gem of a performance by Burt Reynolds, this movie showcasing Demi Moore as a virtuous stripper is pretty darn bad.

I thought I’d catch more my second time through this movie, but it’s really challenging. It’s like actually being at a party in a foreign place and time, the many conversations going at once in unfamiliar accents make it a little overwhelming. The bits I do catch are witty and revealing, and thankfully you can…