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| Sunday, 13-May-2007 05:30 |
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Doggy research
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Of all the articles published by the media suggesting pitbulls should be banned or even witch-hunted and killed, none have so far been supported by sound research. Even worse, the majority of it is based on 'public opinion', often drowned out by the voices of overzealous radicals who by the sounds of it have not even owned a dog.
Before such grand measures should be taken, researchers need to look at what role the owners of the offending dogs play in the attacks. Dogs are after all trained to be pretty much whatever we want them to be. A Labrador for example will attack anyone if mistreated or trained to be aggressive. Dogs are aggressive by nature and if that side of their personality is nurtured then that is what they will display in their behaviour. We need to be looking at what the owners of the dogs are like and how they have treated their dogs before pointing the gun at the dog.
If society goes down the path of banning everything that humans are responsible for keeping under control, even humans will not be allowed to roam. Along the same lines of banning dog breeds, perhaps we should also be banning those ethnicities which exhibit the most violent tendencies. Well, of course we shouldn't, so instead we look for reasons behind the offending and try to prevent it.
Perhaps a more measured approach could be taken before we start banning species. How about licensing for dog ownership and handling for owners of the most aggressive species ie much like gun licensing/ownership?
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| Thursday, 5-Apr-2007 07:23 |
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Japan Tolerates Cold Blooded Slaughter of Dolphins
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If you can handle gore and witness cold blooded slaughter of, dear I say it, DOLPHINS, bear witness to this:
[http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin]
The good people of Japan need to bring this issue to the "in your face" level on the political front in order to embarrass its leadership and bring about change in policy that sees this disgusting industry is brought to a rapid end.
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| Tuesday, 13-Mar-2007 09:18 |
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Celebrating Nikau's First Year
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Another proud creation by big brother Al.
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| Monday, 5-Feb-2007 19:54 |
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NEARLY half way there!
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The outside is nearing completion... Still have facings around the windows to bang on and vertical battens over sheet joints, guttering, trimming off parts of the roof, baseboards, and painting! Who's big idea was this? Oops, I forgot to mention the deck - but I'll leave that till last..
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| Sunday, 10-Dec-2006 20:00 |
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Taking shape
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| Monday, 30-Oct-2006 06:06 |
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The beginning of a hard slog
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Profiles & footings - the sweat
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concrete, piles and bearers
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joists and floor
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The Half House of Opunake, as it is so well known as by the locals, is undergoing a transformation that will see it mature into what might be called a whole house. Others might call it a batch. I'm going to call it home.
It's going to be blood, sweet, and numerous missed waves but let's not forget that the waves caught later will done so from a base of greater comfort.
The earth has been broken and a floor has been laid...
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| Tuesday, 29-Aug-2006 06:31 |
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An entertaining way to die
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Check out this crazy toy. It's the Wego Kite Tube. It offers hights of fun and laugher, spills, enormous thrills, and for the unfortunate few, death.
But death aside, watch this video of some of the action. It's worth a bit of a chuckle... (if you're as silly as me you might find it funny at least).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CxzaX9lT_NM
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| Friday, 17-Mar-2006 07:17 |
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Making waves
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the giant bags
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Opunake bay and reef location!
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Waves are a dominating theme in my life right now; have been in the past but now more than ever...
An artificial surf reef is being born here, at Opunake Beach, down the road from where I live in my cave as a south Taranaki hermit. The long gangly sacks are the bags which are to be pumped full of sand and large stones to form the reef. They'll be dragged out to their disignated resting place, be anchored to the sea floor and then the pumping can begin. Can't wait!
The reef will sit somewhere in the bay close to where I've taken the photo from...
It's like Christmas is about to happen, in March!
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| Thursday, 5-Jan-2006 00:00 |
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Birds
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look who I found churping away inside my wall!
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| Monday, 2-Jan-2006 00:00 |
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Are you doing the dutiful thing?
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Mt. Taranaki flora
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If you ever find yourself flapping about whether you're making the right decision or doing the right thing, as I often find myself doing, consider these words of Hermann Hesse's. It's an extract I pulled from one of his earlier works, "Demian".
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I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of roles which might be assigned to me - as a poet, maybe, or prophet or painter or kindred vocation. All that was futile. I was not there to write poetry, to preach or paint; neither I nor any other man was there for that purpose. They were only incidental things. There was only one true vocation for everybody - to find the way to himself. He might end as poet, lunatic, prophet or criminal - that was not his affair; ultimately it was of no account. His affair was to discover his own destiny, not something of his own choosing, and live it out wholly and resolutely with himself... [Hermann Hesse. Demian]
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Note: This all sounds very fatalistic, and that's because it is. But there is still room for free will inside the path to discovery of ones fate. The two can accommodate each other; why not?
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. Did you make the hole to pull him out .. how nice 
Lovely close ups by the way Tom.