Remember when I was telling you about Sonoma Mountain and the bog entanglement? Matt posted pictures.
I think the evening is the best time to go hiking. It's nice and cool, there isn't a soul on the trails, and the low angle of the sun makes nice pictures.
The only drawback, mosquitos.
The Yosemite training is going well. Monday night we went on a four mile hike. Last night we went on a five mile hike with a 1,000 foot elevation change. The next few weeks we're going to push ourselves a bit, starting with a ten mile, 2,000 foot elevation change hike this weekend.
someone on metafilter pointed to some book catalog software called Readerware that supports scanning. They even have a Palm edition. Only $50. cheap! (but there goes my new project...)
Hey cool. All of the time I spend on this site is starting to pay off. I've been nominated for jack squat. Just being nominated for nothing is the real honor. In return, I would like to announce the nomination of the A WholesTM Awards in the Onfocus Best Online Awards AwardsTM. So far they're the only nominee. Looks like a lock-in.
meg recently gave me a cuecat she had lying around, and I played around with it tonight. Thanks to the Internet, I found custom drivers in a matter of minutes and I was scanning in bar codes at will. I even found some scripts (with great notes!) to do exactly what I want to do: build a book cataloging system. What I couldn't find was a nice Visual Basic program with a nice user interface to make it all easy for folks who don't program. (I feel a new project coming on.)
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Where do you go and who do you turn to when the Supreme Court won't protect citizens from harassment? We will all be arrested.
Note: Don't believe my posts. Fact #1: You're writing things in backwards order now. But I'm afraid it has damaged my memory. What an ingenious film. I just saw memento.
Tonight I was reminded of this quote. And I started thinking about seriousness. In my serious frame of mind, I devised a serious system for rating the seriousness of things around me. 10 for the most serious. 1 for the least serious. (I give this system a 9.) I found very serious books on my bookshelf. several 10s. quite a few 8s. The 1s were few and far between. I was then determined to alleviate this serious problem by choosing the least serious author from my shelf and reading a few unserious passages. "Perhaps the unseriousness will wear off on me," I seriously reasoned. I sat on the floor and read. Walt Whitman asked:
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?