I'm sitting here watching a new TV show on Animal Planet called Stranger Among Bears. I'd seen a news story done on this guy several months ago and I guess it's such an unbelievable story that people are clamoring for more. Charlie Vandergaw lives in a remote part of Alaska outside of Anchorage and welcomes bears (both of Black and Grizzly varieties) to his home as family. He names them, talks to them, pets them, smacks them when they nip at him, feeds them out of his hand, lays with them, wrestles with them and the only protection he has is a stick. He's done this for more than 20 years, and has seen several generations of bear families come through his home. You can read all about it and see pictures and videos on the Animal Planet's website here:
As a nature lover, I'm completely enthralled and suggest that you all check this out if you get a chance. even if you're not a nature lover, I'd imagine you'll be amazed watching this show.
In my blog post earlier this week I completely omitted the fact that the UFC has a PPV event this Saturday (June 13). The event is in Germany, so the live broadcast is at 3PM ET, with a rebroadcast at 10PM ET.
I'd like to take this time to offer my opinions/predictions of the fight card. Feel free to agree, disagree or bite me.
The full fight card (including fights that may not be televised) can be seen on the UFC's official page, here:
I would have been highly impressed had there been a cow floating around in there, but when you get to the money shot, all you see is a light bouncing around on the top of the car (although it is cool how it lands right back on the top of the truck because of the magnet). I know you can't expect too much because they're actually inside of a tornado, but I think it's reasonable to ask for a shot a little better than that. I mean, at least deploy DOROTHY.
As I talked about in a previous post, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, could be the coolest brewery ever, and after an exchange with people in their administrative offices, they sent us a package of swag.
I arrived home this afternoon to find this on my front porch...
Without thinking much about it, I put together a standard email congratulating the winners on Thursday, April 16, and let them know that they were free to use the appropriate badge on their website to show the world that they are very highly regarded by the Muskoxen. We didn't figure much would come of it.
Being the largest and most widely-known brewer of the winners (second place), and not to mention that Sierra Nevada is pretty much the brewery that put micro-brewing on the map, we didn't expect too much from them. To our surprise, however, within a few hours I got an email back from quality control thanking us for the kind words, telling me that they enjoyed our video, and that they had forwarded my email to the CEO and brewmaster. We thought that was the end of it.
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