Michael Gracie 

More Excuses In More Places © There’s been a lot of rumbling over AT&T’s wireless network, with particular emphasis on iPhone users’ data hogging and Verizon’s supposedly superior network quality. AT&T customers have some valid gripes over the lack of network investment, and those of us who have been with AT&T and/or Cingular for years [...]

Florida Gators football coach Urban Meyer has announced he is resigning: Meyer resigned Saturday after five seasons in Gainesville and two national titles. He goes into the Sugar Bowl with a 56-10 record at Florida that includes a 32-8 mark in league play and a school-record 22-game winning streak ended early this month against Alabama. [...]

The Business Week headline…Stocks end shortened session at new 2009 highs. Alright! USA Today sayeth…Stocks close for Christmas at highs for the year. Wowza! BizJournals via MSN Money (and I’ll note that at least they weren’t syndicating the same ol’ same ‘ol from the AP)…Dow closes at one-year high. Still…yeehaw! Time for a hip-hip-hooray? Go [...]

I’d planned on fishing Christmas day, but with high temps expected to climb no higher than the teens I’m likely to bag it. Hence, my fly-fishing year is over, and this year-in-review comes a few days early. The learning curve I spent 30 minutes talking one-on-one with Lefty Kreh, in the second week of January. [...]

Assuming you have an iPod (you technophile), are willing to risk your so-called thrasher brownlining reputation by carrying it out on the water (you tool), and haven’t been mugged for it yet (you lucky !@#%), the following tunes will very likely put you in the frame of mind to dodge sewage hook some thugs from [...]

The Fishy Kid Adult Coloring Contest voting is now underway. There were twelve finalists out of more than forty entries, and they represent the finest that the flyfishing art world has to offer. I’ll bet you didn’t even know there was a flyfishing art world, and I’ll toss an almost onto that last statement just [...]

I’ll first apologize to Mr. Buffett (and all the islanders). I love ya’, and acoustic guitar and steel drums certainly fit the bonefishing motif. But I was hell bent on selections that would really get the blood pumping, since that’s precisely the reason I flyfish in the first place. Not necessarily in order of appearance… [...]

My first western fly fishing experience was in Utah. Prior to that I’d been consistently fishing smallish tailwaters and creeks out east, and spent the introductory day wondering why my 8X tippet kept breaking. A smart-assed friend laughed in my face, and handed me some fiver. Ok, now we’re talking. Everyone is still laughing in [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” The if you’re not doing anything wrong meme rears it’s ugly head once again, only this time it’s the CEO of a company who’s business relies on the [...]

With the holiday season in full swing, there simply isn’t much time to fish. It is, however, always time to get ready for the next round, whether it be a single trip or the upcoming season. Budgets may be tight, but these are the transition months when manufacturers roll out new stuff for the gift-giving [...]