Author Archives: Nik Bronder

New look, Old feel.

If you’re wondering, yes things look a little different. I’m working on this new layout which hopefully will make things a little eaiser and a little more interactive. The two new things (besides the look) are the ‘Comments’ section and the ‘Search’.

First, the Search field will actually work. Unlike before. Pretty simple. It will search the entire site or you can search via Category (another new feature). And when you search you’ll actually get results.

Second, the ‘Comments’ feature will allow you to leave your two cents worth at the bottom of my posts. Not sure how that will turn out but hopefully it will get pretty amusing.

Other things:

This whole redesign thing, bascially came about by moving the site over to a new server as opposed to having the site at onesmallstepband.com/bronder. This move will allow me to put up a lot more content in a more organized way as well attempt to do some streaming video and other cool shit.

In the next couple days I’ll be reposting all the archives from the old site.

The Animal Kingdom Is Back On The Offensive.

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Battles between Lions and Humans in Tanzania are up 300% in the past 15 years. This according to a recent survey by the science journal Nature. Tanzania’s minister for tourism and natural resources, Zakia Meghji, offer this bit of encouragement:

Lions that often attack humans are old animals that are unable to stay in the pride. They end up targeting humans who are a far more easier prey than wildlife.

What’s a guy to do when the weakest of Lion’s can still wreak havoc?

Greatest photograph of all time.

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This was the lead photo on the New York Times web site this morning. I thought it was really amazing until I read the caption, then I was just fucking astonished:

A Dell notebook computer in Thomas Forqueran’s pickup truck caught fire in July, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks.

Ammo in the glove box you’ve got to be shittin’ me. I would never of thought Thomas Forqueran would ever have ammo in the glove box. What’s really odd is that Thomas had a dell laptop in the pickup truck. A quote from the article:

A Dell notebook in the cab of a pickup parked alongside Lake Mead in Nevada caught fire, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks. The truck exploded. “A few minutes later and we’d have been coming up out of the canyon when the notebook blew up” said Thomas Forqueran, owner of the computer and truck. “Somebody is going to wind up getting killed.”

Yes indeed Mr. Forqueran, some one is going to die when you leave all that ammo in your glove box.