By Michael Doig on Monday, August 20, 2007Filed Under: Adventure, General
This fish also has a beautiful orange pattern on the back of its pectoral fins that announces to potential predators that they are poisonous.
2) Minnow Ball – This huge school of tiny fish was so dense you couldn’t see what was in front of you…. These fish travel in such huge numbers to protect themselves from predators, and all around this huge ball of fish were tons of large fish like groupers, snappers, and jacks.
3) Crustaceans – Shrimp, crabs and lobsters were plentiful and lobster season started while we were in Key Largo. I saw several barber pole shrimp, loads of lobsters, a few crabs, and a tiny blue shrimp that was living in an anemone.
By Michael Doig on Saturday, June 30, 2007Filed Under: General
Believe it or not I accidentally stumbled upon the iPhone release in NYC. I had some friends in town and I was showing them around when I saw the mayhem and realized what was going on. I slid up as close as I could and snapped a few shots. The police were out in full [...]
By Michael Doig on Friday, May 18, 2007Filed Under: General
From Amazon: On the evening of Monday, May 21st, the “Sold, ship now” e-mails will be modified to remove private customer shipping information. After that time, they will only contain the order ID and a listing of the items that have been sold. An increase in postage and now this. I use Apple Mail to [...]
By Michael Doig on Sunday, April 29, 2007Filed Under: General
1) I finally made it over 100 readers in feedburner. That has been a huge goal of mine for a while. Now I need to make it to 1000. 2) If you don’t get it right the first time pull out and try over, parallel parking that is. There never seems to be enough space [...]
By Michael Doig on Wednesday, December 6, 2006Filed Under: General
Back when I posted my first article a year ago, I had no idea I would end up being a one hit wonder. My very first article for this site is by far my most popular. Tutorials always tend to be popular, especially when they are number one in google. I’ve written a few more [...]
By Michael Doig on Sunday, October 29, 2006Filed Under: General
Another interesting, almost beautiful poem from a spam message. Business according to its own linear rules. It is even musical, and visual arts, are happening already. Technology has evolved, and died and themselves spawned new groups of mutants. Electronic galleries can post computer files with minimal cost are caused by flickering or unclear screens or [...]
By Michael Doig on Monday, September 25, 2006Filed Under: General
Since my last post a lot has happened. I drove across america in 4 days, went to a taping of the Colbert Report, started teaching and I’ve been extremely busy. This last weekend I had a craving for clam chowder, so I started driving and I found a small town near NY called Pt. Lookout [...]
By Michael Doig on Sunday, August 6, 2006Filed Under: Adventure, General
I’m back in Los Angeles now after a little over two months in New York. I’ve started packing, got the car tuned up and I’m looking forward to my drive across America, sea to shining sea. I’m still working out the route I’d like to take, but if any one has suggestions of good routes [...]
By Michael Doig on Sunday, July 30, 2006Filed Under: General
When I was in college I did a lot of things, one of the more interesting things I did was make music under the name Hipknowsis. Hipknowsis was a collaboration between DJ Austin Swanson and myself. I’ve had these songs floating around on my hard drive for a while and I figured it was time [...]
By Michael Doig on Saturday, July 22, 2006Filed Under: General
My thoughts on meeting chartreuse. Technorati Tags: interview, Loren Feldman, Chartreuse