Cold Splinters

Y’all, I’m sure you don’t need a reminder, but just in case you’ve been busy, don’t forget about Steep and Cheap. It could be one of the best websites around. They have HIGHLY discounted camping and outdoor gear, one item at a time. You can even download an application that sits in the bottom right hand corner of Firefox and tells you what’s on sale, how discounted it is, and how much it’ll cost you. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

(EMS has a 20% off sale that ends tonight too)

MP3: Suckers – It Gets Your Body Movin’ (Alternate Version) (thx WTD)

Click here to see a time lapse video of the night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas.  As my high school English teacher reminded the class on several occasions, “Your problems are small. You’re a dot on a dot on a dot on a dot on a dot on a dot. And so on.”

Cold Splinters went on a tour of Prospect Park this weekend with Wildman Steve Brill, the undisputed king of walking through Central and Prospect Parks while making painfully bad jokes and fake trumpet sounds. Brill also shows you which plants are edible and how to prepare them, knowledge that we regretfully know little about. Despite the nausea that the wild mushroom (Dryad’s Saddle) brought on at the end of our three and a half hour adventure, the walk was full of useful information and we came home with bags full of edible plants and a faint idea of how to prepare them. The highlight was the sassafras root, which you can use to make some great root beer flavored tea. Above is a picture of Wildman being interviewed by the Travel Network reporter that was along for the ride.

More edible plants after the jump…

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