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Baboons move into S. African beach homes
Unruly gangs are raiding the expensive homes that line the spectacular coast of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula, clearing out pantries, emptying fridges, and defecating over the designer furnishings.
It’s baboon versus human in a string of wealthy ocean-front communities 30 minutes from the trendy center of Cape Town, a top […]

Rode the Bonnie Black into work today. All went well. (Yippee!)
[BTW: The Wife thinks the bike’s name is “Betty” — as in “Black Betty”, the badass Leadbelly song. I mostly know the version by a band called Ram Jam, which took over Boston Bruins broadcasts in the 90s thanks to Cam Neely naming it as […]

We keep a team wiki at work. I updated my biography there today and thought it’d be worth republishing here (with some embelishment) on the (brand new!) About page.

Bonnie Black Right
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
For those of you who asked, here’s an update on the old Honda CL-350.
As for the Bonnie, you can keep tabs on my relationship with the new bike by watching my “bonnieblack” tag on Flickr.

Shouting monkeys show surprising eloquence
Putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) live in family groups, usually led by a dominant male who keeps a wary eye out for their two main enemies — leopards and eagles. A circling eagle will cause a male to warn his troop by making a series of calls called ‘hacks’, whereas a lurking […]

So, cork’d is pretty cool. Nice to see Dan & Dan doing cool stuff together.
I’m not a real wine aficionado - my wine tastes aren’t very refined. I like it that way, though. I tend to enjoy $10-15 bottles as much as something that costs $70+. I figure that’s a good thing.
Anyway, I’m on there […]

Congrats to my darling Mother on the occasion of her adoption of a pony super-cool Great Dane named Bently (scroll to the bottom). He’s just a puppy at 11 months old, which is actually kind of scary considering his size… He’s a sweety though, and he puts a goofy grin on Ma’s face.

As of this Thursday, I will be the very proud owner of one gorgeous 2006 Triumph Bonneville Black.
This is, with the exception of some crazy chopper I’ll never have, my dream bike. I mean, if it’s good enough for Steve McQueen, right?
I can’t wait to ride it (first around the neighborhood, then to the coffee […]