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picking nits is out-of-date by now and reminds me of the time when being online, logging in, flame, spam, and bandwidth were phrases that bonded a subculture.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

There's a party going on right here. (again)

space-age artist: Paul Klee.

space-age film: Atomic Cafe.

space-age book: Populuxe.

Main Entry: push-button
Function: adjective
Date: 1916
1 : operated or done by means of push buttons <a push-button phone>
2 : using or dependent on complex and more or less self-operating mechanisms that are put in operation by a simple act comparable to pushing a button <push-button warfare> [via webster]