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Main Entry: fierce
Function: adjective
1 a : violently hostile or aggressive in temperament b : given to fighting or killing : PUGNACIOUS
2 a : marked by unrestrained zeal or vehemence <a fierce argument> b : extremely vexatious, disappointing, or intense <fierce pain>
3 : furiously active or determined <make a fierce effort>
4 : wild or menacing in appearance [via webster]

Matt has some cool pics of Sonoma County from his last visit.

pac-bell: "DSL is all about distance, and you're more than 3 miles from the central office."

pb: "So will I ever have DSL?"

pac-bell: "Um....well....no."

Hey Tibor fans, there's an exhibit going on at the SFMOMA. Can't make it? Buy this book.

for those of you who aren't in-the-know, blog refers to Business Logistics Management. right?

picking nits is out-of-date by now and reminds me of the time when being online, logging in, flame, spam, and bandwidth were phrases that bonded a subculture. now *the* culture.

Do you know what a blog is? Let's get a secret handshake before everyone knows.

"It is the readiness of the mind that is wisdom."
- Shunryu Suzuki

Ev took pictures of yesterday's hike.

Speaking of stunning beauty -- if you follow the John Barleycorn link below, read the last paragraph in that chapter.

Sonoma Valley, 1887

"And yet, with jaundiced eye I gaze upon all the beauty and wonder about me, and with jaundiced brain consider the pitiful figure I cut in this world that endured so long without me and that will again endure without me. I remember the men who broke their hearts and their backs over this stubborn soil that now belongs to me. As if anything imperishable could belong to the perishable! These men passed. I, too, shall pass. These men toiled, and cleared, and planted, gazed with aching eyes, while they rested their labour-stiffened bodies on these same sunrises and sunsets, at the autumn glory of the grape, and at the fog-wisps stealing across the mountain. And they are gone. And I know that I, too, shall some day, and soon, be gone."

- Jack London from John Barleycorn, 1913.

Yesterday some friends and I hiked up Sonoma Mountain. It was hard work in the heat, but the view of the Sonoma Valley from the summit was stunning.

That was my second time on that trail, and I'm looking forward to making that trip many more times.