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John Muir Trail photos
We’ve finally got our John Muir Trail photos organized and consolidated from my own, Minette, and Brahm’s cameras. I haven’t finished sorting out the titles and comments, but that might take me the rest of 2006. There are 347 divided between the 5 segments we did the trail in, down from 4,587 of which 4,000 were of me ol’ favorite series: Dead Trees of the Sierras.
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I am
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Out of the mountains
Minette and I have made it out of the mountains. Almost, that is. We’ve traded the Sierra Nevada for Utah’s Colorado Plateau. But we finished the JMT, Mt. Whitney and all, and now are relaxing for a week before making our way back home. Since we exited the wilderness, we’ve been eating like horses and our full bellies are the source of much happiness.
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Into the mountains
Minette and I are off tomorrow morning, to hike the John Muir Trail. We plan to finish by the end of July, then we’re off for some more vacation in Utah for a week. At least, if the bears aren’t too friendly.
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Chirp chomp
A couple of weeks ago Minette and I saw this little chick hop across the trail we were walking on over in the Berkeley hills.
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Hasta la vista... mate?
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Crystal balls
It rained in San Francisco a few days ago. That’s unusual for this time of year. Just as the rains were passing, I noticed some mysterious pearls on my lupinus arboreus outside:
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U.S. Sen. Hollings makes atomic bomb joke.
“You should draw a mushroom cloud and put underneath it ‘Made in America by lazy and illiterate workers and tested in Japan.’”
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Ordinary prisms recalled from igniting hair on woman's head
Apparently the Nanjing Misiland Trade & Development Co., Ltd. has issued a safety warning for it’s Corner Cube Prism – used in children’s costumes such as the Arabian Princess – due to the prism’s ability to ignite human hair. The company has issued a press release in which it unveiled their plan to include a new warning sticker with the prism:
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How to Stop Worrying and Love the Incendiary Bomb
Recently I read a chapter from Mike Davis’ Dead Cities that reminded me of part of Errol Morris’ documentary The Fog of War. They both talk about the use of firebombs in World War II: bombs designed not to destroy military compounds but rather to destroy dense, urban civilian populations in order to weaken the morale of the enemy.
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Stuck in reverse
Nuclear-powered cars, real leopad-skin seats, and the “reptilian brain” of American car consumers. All part of the story of how Detroit’s Big Three are stuck in reverse.
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What is... Henrietta?
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Rocky Mt. elk friends
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This New House
The American Dream just keeps growing. Since 1970 the size of the average new home has ballooned by 50 percent. “Great rooms,” Viking ranges, 10-acre lots – can moats and turrets be far behind?
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Spring in the City
Spring is in full force here in San Francisco and I’ve been getting to know a new camera. I’ve posted some photos of my spoils. I can be a little obsessive about nature close-ups, but what the hey, I never tire.
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Social Security: A Question of Numbers
This article presenting an interesting brief history of Social Security is almost a month old, but I’ve just now finally got around to posting it.
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Bloody Fucking Oil Wars
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What's the matter with Long Island?
I was watching Capturing the Friedmans recently on DVD (which, by the way, I highly recommend, even if you saw the film, because of all the interesting extra footage on the DVD) when I realized I have seen, over the past year, a string of films that take place on Long Island, NY. Together they seem to make Long Island out as the Orange County of the East Coast, that is strange things abound (but without all the sex).
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Consumers to Car Companies: Innovate, Don't Litigate
I wrote an email to several auto manufacturers regarding their lawsuit against California’s latest greenhouse gas emissions law:
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Into Thin Air
Only 6 or so years late, I finally read Into Thin Air. Wow was this ever hard to put down. And wow have I changed my mind for even visiting Everest Base Camp. Sorry Jeff & Sofia, I’m out!
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