Massive Beef Recalls

My buddy Pete wont eat ground beef. I can not say that I blame him. This past weekend there was a million pound beef recall from Cargill. This was just the most recent for them.

On Oct. 6, Cargill voluntarily recalled more than 840,000 pounds of ground beef patties distributed at Sam's Club stores

This is just small potatoes compared to the Topps recall in September

Topps Meat Co. has issued a nationwide recall for 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products following

Chef Finds Out That

He is an illeist. (one who refers to himself in the third person.) Over at Freakonomics, They have a cool post about Wordsmith. Wordsmith also has an internet anagram server, where you can find anagrams for cheflovesbeer, like: bee chefs lover or for eve belches.

Beer increase on tap?

I have seen a few articles about this lately it appears that there is or will be a shortage of hops. What kind of hops it does not say.

n 1994 there were 234,000 acres in the world, last year there were 113,000, this year there's 118,000 - that should say it right there," said Olson.

It seem from the article that hops production is up from last year.

The only thing we've had to change is now we have to secure an annual inventory," rather than just phoning suppliers when necessary, he said. "A lot's changed on the logistic front on how we're looking to get hops in the future

Maybe this will be a good thing if small breweries start working with small organic farms to ensure a supply of hops.

Mississippi God Damn

I did not hear of Nina Simone until after she passed on.But dig it.She is awesome.

Lion King

Lion King is hiking the American discovery Trail this year. My guess is he will still be hiking it next year. The American Discovery Trail stretches across more than 6,800 miles and 15 states, it has two routes. Lion King is taking the southern route.He is just about finished hiking through IN.
I first met Lion King in 1998 while I was hiking south and he was going north. He is a very memorable character . I most recently saw him at this years ALDHA gathering. He made a pretty good movie about the Appalachian Trail, Walking with Freedom.

Diet Coke and Mentos

How do people come up with this stuff?

Cephas and Wiggins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RNw_kEf-s

Good

It seems the nasty Fred Phelps is going to have to pay.

Fucking Asshole
Chris Mathews

More Tools

Chris Mathews keeps bringing up UFOs. He is clearly a Republican tool. Heck, I have seen UFOs. Who has not? Look into the night sky. You will see stuff, that you can not identify. That does not mean you believe in extra terrestrial beings. He Should grow up.

TOOLS

Andrea Mitchel looks like a heroin addict. She does not look well. Hey, I spent most of my life in the city. I have seen too many heroin addicts.

More Tools

Not one possitve thing has been said by the republican tools on MSNBC. Not one tool has said who won. OK now the tools have started.

WE ARE NOT

Heck that is just wrong. The the Republicans are not helping the American people. The Democratic contenders should say that. It is not the Democratic contenders.

Republican tools

Every question I saw tonight put the democratic contender on the defensive. It says to me that Russert and Williams are working for a Republican majority. NBC is a partisan Republican tool. I have not watched the Republican debates. I think I will now to see how they ask questions. I suspect that the talking heads will not be as tough.

You Know You Are A Geek When?
When you are watching the Senate Agriculture,Nutrition,&Forestry Committee.

Full Moon!

Books I have read
Crota Owl Goingback
There's Something in The Back Yard Richard Snodgrass
The Staratagies of Zues Gary Hart
Tom Clancy THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, DEBT OF HONOR, THE CARDINAL OF THE CREMLIN, PATRIOT GAMES, RED STORM RISING, THE TEETH OF THE TIGER, CLEAR AND PREASANT DANGER, WITHOUT REMORSE
Michael Chricton, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, THE TERMANAL MAN,THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Robert Fulghum, SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR, IT WAS ON FIRE WHEN I LAY DOWN ON IT, ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARDEN
Aldous huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD
John Irving, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
Herman Wouk, THE HOPE
James A Michener, THE SOURSE
William W Johnstone, PURSUIT OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
Kenneth Roberts, NORTHWEST PASSAGE
Ruth Beebe Hill, HANTA YO

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Blogger ate my post. I do not feel like rewriting my post. So a short version of why Chef is an extreme athlete. Lions, ticks, and bears! OH MY! Seriously thru-hiking is an extreme sport. Think about some of the things we have to do on the Pacific Crest Trail. You start out at the Mexico U.S. border. Watch out for the "aliens "a border patrolman said. So you start in a desert Dodging illegal aliens and then you have to deal with rain, sleet, snow, hail, fog, rain, wind(don't laugh, It is hard to stand in 60 mph winds), cliffs, high snow covered pass(as high as 13,199 ft), glaciers, deserts, fording rivers full of spring runoff, spiders, ticks, scorpians, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, and bears.

Extreme Athlete
Am I an extreme athlete? I have been jokingly asking myself that question. In Twin Lakes Resort a man walked up to me and said "I'm an extreme athlete too." Now I thought that was pretty funy, but I needed a ride. I remember a couple of days later argueing with Eagle whether or not we were indeed extreme athletes. It was pretty houmorous if I recall correctly. A couple of chuby kids dreaming about ESPN's Extreme Games.

Here is my arguement that I am an extreme athlete. I participate in the sport of backpacking or hiking. Todays top two headlines.

No charges in wilderness survival-school death
California hiker mauled by mountain lion leaves hospital

How many sports have their participants Mauled by Lions? It is not even hiking season and we have death and a lion attack. I walk through places like this. I know some one that was attacked by a bear, was only a few miles away when it happened. Rattlesnakes, deserts, glaciers, snow covered passes, cliffs, fording rivers, lions, bears, scorpions, ticks, snow, sleet, rain, fog, hail, spiders, giardia, high altitude pulmenary edema, are some of the things that you have to deal with on a Pacific Crest Trail thru hike. Some pretty extreme stuff.