Alaskan fisherman's giddy reaction to a breaching pod of humpback whales.

Sure we may have more than our fair share of crazy people. but on the other hand...look whales!

Excellent video to show that Evolutionary science denier in the family.

As you already know by now it absolutely drives me crazy that people who don't understand the teaching of Evolution, or simply despise it because it challenges the biblical story of creation, are constantly attacking science in our public school classrooms.

I think that this video does a rather exemplary job of pointing out all of the science that supports Evolution, as well as presenting the intermediary fossils which Creationists are always claiming simply do not exist. 

Definitely a good video to bookmark for that next holiday when old Uncle Jack starts pontificating on the "fact" that even scientists can't agree on Evolution, or that because they cannot point to a first cause the whole scientific discipline needs to be thrown out.

This is the film my daughter is currently working on.

From ADN:

As "Everybody Loves Whales" ended a second week filming in Anchorage, a consensus began to emerge among the onlookers, extras and hired hands orbiting the $30 million movie production.

Drew Barrymore is smaller than you'd think.

But the flock of workers that follows the production as it moves from location to location across the city? The entourage of trailers and equipment carts? Bigger than expected.

"It's almost like an anthill," said Amy Anderson of Anchorage, who is working as a medic on the set. Only when the cameras roll does the commotion stop, she said. "The entire ant farm just freezes in time."

My daughter is one of the ants.  She is working as a production assistant and is helping to build sets and move props from one location to another. 

I wish I could tell you really cool stories about drama happening behind the scenes, and which actors were really cool and which ones were prima donnas, but my daughter signed a non-disclosure form so I am being kept in the dark just like everybody else.  Well mostly.

However I can share the fact that my little girl is working her ass off and really raking in the dough, which is GREAT news because she stills owes me a rather large chunk of change for paying to have a new transmission installed in that RV of hers.

And I am going to need that money pretty soon for........oh yeah, we have to wait for that announcement.

By the way here is some footage  from 1988 of the three trapped whales that inspired this film.