The Explorers Club
No. XCI - McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica






Also, a tribute to Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), a great hero to yours truly and one of the principal inspirations for "The Explorers Club": Nimrodlink. Being able to recreate any of Shackleton's amazing adventures might just be the best reason I've ever heard to regulate my diet and increase my physical activity until I reach first a healthy weight and then the lofty heights of a fighting trim. (Mayhap this should have fallen under the "Ricky Fitness" heading?) But let us not forget that the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was not solely about the thrill of the race and the glory of discovery, it opened up a strange new world, theretofore unknown to all of history, to scientific investigation. And speaking of science...

Science!
Cyborglink. Man alive, living in the future is rad. One step closer to rendering disease and misadventure powerless. I scoff, "Where is thy sting?"

Science!

Project TROIKA
The second weekly telephone confab went far better than the first. It went swimmingly in fact, and I now view my post-incident assessment as having been correct: the debacle, though unpleasant, ultimately strengthened the enterprise. Huzzah!

Grow or die.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Barenaked Ladies, "Some Fantastic" from Stunt (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: Before Labor Day draws to a close the summer of '08, one more ditty from Stunt, the album that stood as a colossus over the summer of '98. Those were luminous days, my friends, but rest assured, the best is yet to come.