Recent content by Herpin Man

Venison shish kebabs on the grill. That, and the Twilight Zone marathon, have been my New Year's routine for quite a few years.

My wife ordered a piece of furniture from Amazon, that I assembled over the weekend. While doing so, I discovered a problem with one of the components. My wife called to ask for a replacement part, but they refunded her instead. Evidently, it's cheaper for these companies to simply give people...

Last week, driving to my cabin in northern Minnesota, I got to watch the northern light for about 5 hours as I drove.

Aquatic frogs really shouldn't be kept with fish. They typically have a difficult time competing for food with fish. If the frogs are exhibiting aggressive behavior, there is something wrong with how they are being kept- for example, insufficient hiding places or food.

If that we're mine, I'd keep some small tree frogs in there.

I had no idea that Alan Alda was a fish guy.

I sat up and looked over at my wife. "Geez, I just had a sick dream" I lamented. "Tell me about it". "Well, you were in it" I began. "Ooh, so it was a sex dream" my wife cooed. "Eh, no. We were kids, and sometimes you were my girlfriend, and then you were my sister. I ate a fish, and it...

Amphibians and reptiles.

I hate to be a pessimist, but Trumpy absolutely does not care about tropical fish- unless they have some monetary value to him.

Was this Oxbow?

I don't think this is really a soundtrack for my life, but I am going through a bit of an oldies (65-75) phase lately- the music of my youth. Especially the Partridge Family. David Cassidy was really underrated as a singer.

I've always thought that the green ones were kind of cool.

Indeed.

The idea of allowing oneself to be bitten repeatedly by venomous snakes in order to build up immunity was made popular by Bill Haast, of the Miami Serpentarium. He was bitten by venomous snakes at least 172 times, and still lived to be 100 years old- but his hands were badly deformed from some...

Or it was a violation of their lease, and the landlord discovered it.