Three types of fun: I – Immediate. Type I doesn’t mean “without risk”, but it feels really good in the moment without a lot of effort. Examples: Sex. Chocolate. Masturbation. Ice cream. Beer. Drugs. Driving fast. 5.9 hands. 5.11 sport. Wired 12s. II – Delayed. Can be somewhat fun at times when you’re doing […]
A lot of times climbing is all Type II kind of fun, if not Type III. Only occasionally Type I [1]. Even the sport climbing, just trying to get better. Driving, doing the same climbs, failing on the same stupid dyno every time, having the same conversations with the same people, over and over. Then […]
I’ve been shaking out my shoes before I put them on since back on the ranch. You live in the desert, creepy crawlies are just part of the deal. It’s just what you do. But honestly, I’ve only ever gotten a few bugs. Mostly leaves, stones. No snakes, scorpions, centipedes, spiders. Before Monday. Monday I […]
Bears use tools. Dolphins exchange names (obSimpsons: Treehouse of Horror – Night of the Dolphins). Humans had a good run but it’s over. Seriously, no one had ever seen a bear use a tool before? I personally witnessed a bear using a rock to break a lock off a bear box 15 years ago. And […]
Let’s start with the descendants of Swift.
I saw a coyote trotting up the sidewalk on Mar Vista about 6:30 pm today, walking the dogs. I don’t think they even saw him. Remarkable, as they are acutely aware of other dogs, cats, skunks, squirrels. Wildlife of all sorts. They didn’t even look up. He saw us though, and crossed the street, without […]
Look no further than this, which is not a headline from the Onion (ht: Atrios) [edit] I said “newspapers”, but after listening to NPR this morning, I realized what meant was “old school media”. And yes, NPR is included in that – they have to suck up to their political, if not corporate, masters. Newspapers, […]
Forecloses on banks, apparently.
Tagged YABWThere are two red tail hawks circling at the height of my window about 50 m away. It’s another perfect 72 F So Cal day, visibility absolutely crystal. The iPhone 4S not good enough to capture this, unfortunately. And the D700, lovely though it is, is too big, and too expensive, to bicycle in with. […]
Song: Bloodbuzz Ohio, The National, High Violet. Driving deserted freeways across Ohio at 4 AM in a big American sports car, on cold dark wet shining October roads, after 10 days of climbing at the RRG, with the drum beat from this song going over and over… Concert: The National, Hollywood Bowl, Sunday, September 11. […]
The cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider was an idiot thing to do for any number of reasons. First, it still would have been the most powerful accelerator on earth, with the most luminosity. We would have found the Higgs in 1996, instead of not quite yet in 2011. We rarely get measurable quantities like […]
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iPad versus paper
I’m a techy kinda guy. But I tech where it’s appropriate. I didn’t buy a DSLR until the digital F100 came out, but I had digital P&S’s before that – I saw the future, I just didn’t want to spend a lot of money on it til the tech had matured. Ditto with smartphones – […]
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