February 1st 2024 10:13PM: We're in a buddy's shack with no scale nor tape measure and suddenly I'm holding this 30+ monster. We measured her with beer cans and got her back down the hole. Can anyone estimate her stats? This was at Solomon's Point, Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan. See my comment for the measuring video.
I bought too many for my fishing trip and decided to try to keep them. I feed them tons: blood worms, earthworms, snails, dead minnows, aquarium pellets etc... they devour it all. They're really cool to watch when they eat and chill out but they have this other habit that ruins everything.
Their favorite thing to do is try to kill each other. Each tries to latch and not get latched. The ultimate goal is to latch your opponents face, get your lips over theirs and eat their face, then leave them to starve over the course of a week.
I had 75 a few months ago and I'm down to like 25. I'm super bummed out. This video captures a fairly even fight where neither died, but you can clearly see neither walked away unscathed.
It's a recipe for exponential wealth in a few random people. These random people will try to convince you they made their own destiny. Humble bragging becomes second nature, they ramble on and on as precum seeps. It will sound compelling and motivational to you in the 99% because, hey, it worked for them. Benefit of the doubt, they might not be malicious. They might not even remember they're lying. The human ego is so prone to excluding uncomfortable truths.
The children of these lucky people will be exactly as stupid as any every other kid, but with a shit load of power. A percentage of these spoiled children will suffer from mental illnesses. Every instability in your noggin becomes extreme when you combine it with extreme wealth.
If someone you know is suffering from the effects of extreme wealth, you probably are too. Fuck you both.
Twist shift is better. Why do all modern tillers have this dumb lever to shift gears? Please bear with me for a sec. Imagine we're talking about guns and you've got two new recruits of equal marksmanship ready to send to the front line in ww1 or something. Give one a bolt action rifle and the other a semi automatic. Which one is more likely to come home?
Bolt action:
Semi auto:
Change direction with a twist shift tiller:
Change direction with a separate shift lever tiller:
I'm annoyed because ALL modern tiller handles are slow to change direction like a bolt action rifle is to reload. I'm annoyed more people aren't annoyed by it. Regardless of your skill at the helm, there will come a time where you need to floor it in reverse ASAP, and with the separate shift lever, you have way less time to react.
Twist shift is better. Please bear with me for a sec. Imagine we're talking about guns and you've got two new recruits of equal marksmanship ready to send to the front line in ww1 or something. Give one a bolt action rifle and the other a semi automatic. Which one is more likely to come home?
Bolt action:
Semi auto:
Change direction with a twist shift tiller:
Change direction with a separate shift lever tiller:
I'm annoyed because all modern tiller handles are slow to change direction like a bolt action rifle is to reload. I'm annoyed more people aren't annoyed by it.
People with tillers where twist is throttle and lever is forward/neutral/reverse, why aren't you all complaining about it?
I fell in love with tillers on an old merc 18hp where twist left was forward and twist right was reverse. It was perfectly intuitive and extremely fast to make corrections back and forth. It was one fluid motion.
Every modern tiller, including my 60hp evinrude, is twist throttle, lever shift. The "oh shit" moment, where you're coming into shore and there's suddenly a rock at 12 o clock, you need reverse NOW. First, twist right to slow the engine, let go of the tiller, locate the lever, throw it in reverse (directly backwards, it's very easy to shove the engine into a right turn), let go of the tiller again, locate the handle, twist left, pray you aren't in neutral or still in drive.
If you're very careful, you'll never run into this situation. But if you can't react quickly, it's a myth that the tiller is more maneuverable.
I bought way too many for the fishing trip and decided to keep them.
This is a video from 2023, day 1 home after my cat lost her leg. I think it would be way less stressful for both of us if I could just stick her.
20 years ago, I had a diabetic orange tabby, Boots. We gave him shots twice a day and it was super easy, quick poke, done. Even if he was rowdy, super easy: pinch some skin, poke, done.
Five times daily oral medication is a great way to stress out your very injured, already stressed critter. Makes me her bully when she needs a friend and I hate it.
I found some footage from 2023, day 1 home after she lost her leg.
She went missing May 13 2026 and I miss her so much. RIP Coraline, my partner in crime.
In 2023, she came back one morning with a mangled leg and became a three leg cat. I tried keeping her inside full time for about 6 months but she was so miserable, eventually wouldn't even come out of the closet, stopped using her litterbox, barely ate... I decided her quality of life was worth more than my peace of mind and since then, I let her go outside all she wants during daylight.
This is a video I recorded mid 2025. She's missing her left hind leg so her left ear often goes unscratched. Me trying to scratch it for her seems to just make it more itchy.
She disappeared 4 days ago and I'm losing my mind worrying. Her name is Coraline, she has one super jacked leg and two of the rankest murder mittens. Any coyote or cougar, neighbor's or stray dog, sadistic human child, who or what fucked with her... she fucked them up too and. They're severly injured after winning the fight and liable to die of infection.
I turn the music down a few times when none of the fish are singing on beat, so all you can hear the solenoids clicking away.
The audio is a recreation of what it would actually sound like if you had a mic in the water.
