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Aug 16. 2019
A rather far fetched transcript of an internet meme* actually quite well covers my book situation right now.
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Jul 20. 2019
GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books
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Jun 19. 2019
A few things happened during the last couple months that made me think of, buy and read nice fishing books again.
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Mar 7. 2019
Another Danish Fly Festival is over, and as always it was a great experience. Lots of people to meet, lots of things to see.
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Feb 25. 2019
In a few days I'm leaving for the Danish Fly Festival, and there I will be tying in the tyers row, an activity that I love
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Feb 19. 2019
In principle there's free and unlimited access to all coasts in Denmark. That's what the law says. But in many places reality is different.
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Jan 20. 2019
A good friend offered me a macro flash he didn't use any more in exchange for a handful of flies
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Jan 9. 2019
My books used to ordered by black magic, essentially a system where I stuffed in new titles where there was space. Things have changed.
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Dec 8. 2018
The biennial gathering of fly anglers, casters, tyers, vendors, artists, artisans and other good people will take place again in Denmark in early March 2019
Nerd alert
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Nov 24. 2018
Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded
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Sep 15. 2018
Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!
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Sep 13. 2018
The publishing pace on GFF has almost come to a standstill. Real life has stuck its ugly head in the door and brought paid work
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Jun 11. 2018
No, not strikes from fish, but strikes from spammers and wannabe guest posters who try to get their spam published on GFF. Three strikes and they get this.
Nerd alert
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Jun 10. 2018
It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.
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May 6. 2018
If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...
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Apr 28. 2018
I just returned from a week-long fishing trip with my wife and a bunch of good friends – and I didn’t make a single cast.
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Apr 16. 2018
My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.
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Apr 4. 2018
I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot
Nerd alert
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Feb 21. 2018
The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site
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Feb 18. 2018
We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.
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Jan 21. 2018
Some books I just order, no hesitation. But when prices go above 200 US$ and postage follows close behind, my finger hesitates a bit over the buy button
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Jan 4. 2018
No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.
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Dec 10. 2017
Due to some odd circumstances, I ordered myself two copies of the same book.
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Nov 10. 2017
Three new books on saltwater flies seem to be a perfect item for the Christmas wish list for any saltwater fly angler

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