Well, given the shape of Alaska and the position of Alaska, not long after moving up here I started describing Alaska as the great continental lobster trap, a lot of folks who don't fit in down south knock about and by various circumstances find their way up here, and maybe they don't fit in up here but it takes a modicum of competence to get together the werewithal to get yourself out again, which is the problem that lobsters have in the two-chambered traps they use back east.