From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
I'm still surprised that articles are still making G+ sound like some weird backwater of the internet:
ReplyDelete"Goodfellow’s posting may be the most (first?) popular thing ever to have come out of Google Plus."
Yeah, that's the part I take exception to. Although it may be true the dude's post is the most shared thing ever on G+. It was at over 1500 shares when I looked at it. And he'd opened up a second thread when the first maxxed out at 500 comments.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have an opinion on whether the guy is right or not. But he seems to be wrong if the later maneuvering claim is accurate.
I love being told by news outlets that I don't use G+ at all, since no one does. That'll save me lots of time in my day, thanks!
ReplyDeleteIn other news, people still consider Slate worth reading.
ReplyDeleteI'm still rooting for Courtney Love to find the missing airliner.
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