Here’s another bit of landscape that I saw while camping last week. The rocks along the south side of West Clear Creek were crumbling like this along 100 feet or more of trail, which showed a lot of interesting damage like this. I figured out why Sideshow seemed so familiar: I’d actually read it 15 [...]

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Last weekend, we saw this caterpillar crossing the trail in front of us. I thought it was interesting enough to take a picture, since caterpillars are sort of rare in Phoenix.  (No squirrels, either.) Saturday afternoon, I was walking to the library when I noticed a truck pull into a nearby parking lot.  The people [...]

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Caturday! Fuzzball is not quite as pleased as this, but she’s happy that it’s the weekend. Again, not a lot to report. Recently read through When Languages Die, by a professional linguist. This is semi-interesting for its accounts of people who speak uncommon languages, and the subtle and non-subtle differences that those languages have from [...]

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This is a shot from last Sunday, when we were walking on the trail near West Clear Creek. Most of the country near the campsite looks kind of like this. There’s really not a lot to say, though. Recently finished The Scar, by China Miéville. Yeah, I’d lent it to Nathan, he said he enjoyed [...]

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In honor of tax day, here’s a cat illustrating the government’s attitude towards your money. Not a lot to report from work.  On Wednesday night, went over to Steve’s place, played Rock Band.  Also heard that Steve’s applied to be an instructor at UAT in Tempe.  If he’s accepted, he’ll probably be teaching introductory Java [...]

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Sunday morning, we woke up to no rain and people fishing in the river next to our campsite. That was a little odd, but what the heck. We built a fire, and Zach made bacon and coffee. The coffee was not all that strong, since it was made in an old-time percolator which wasn’t over [...]

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Various problems due to me being really, really tired meant no update yesterday. But I’ve gotten some sleep. So: The directions to the campsite looked easy. They neglected to mention that the Forest Service roads are dirt/gravel and not that well maintained. Oh well. After 5 miles of washboard road, I finally got there on [...]

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Caturday! Time to rest from the work week and curl up with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Or go camping, which I’ll be doing Saturday. I’ll be unable to do anything computer-related until late Sunday when I get back into town, so there will be no entry tomorrow. Also, I got a text message [...]

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Thursday was really annoying in that I got a call, probably from work, while on my way to the store. Traffic was heavy enough that I couldn’t get the phone out of my pocket before they stopped calling. I figured that they would call back or call someone else if it was really important. So [...]

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Wednesday was reasonably normal, except for getting a helpdesk ticket right before I got in the car to go to Steve’s. This was a bit annoying, because A) it wasn’t my stuff that was breaking, but a co-worker’s B) dealing with this made me late. Oh well. This is one of the hazards of being [...]

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