cyberhobo

Month: July 2003

  • When Things Go Wrong

    Working with computers, things often go wrong. When creating software, things go wrong far more often than they go right. Error messages have been a way of life for me for many years. I’ve appeciated the humor in error messages, written many good and bad, and been faced with thousands. It never occurred to me…

  • Alabama Hills

    Getting out for a climb is a challenge in this heat, especially if you don’t have time to wind your way up high into the mountains. After hiding in the house during the day Saturday, we decided to see how the Alabama Hills felt. We left about 5:30pm, pulled into Lone Pine around 6:45, and…

  • HOT

    It’s been toasty here in the shady backyard of our shack in the Mojave. This causes some worry that it will just be too much for some our guests at our wedding in Joshua Tree. It’s also hopeful though, because heat waves like this are often followed by cooler spells. Ann asked me as we…

  • Movie: Scent of Green Papaya

    This movie has great cinematography, and that keeps it going for a while. But the slow pace, combined with some poor acting, storylines that don’t go anywhere, and a lack of much historical feel (of 1951 and 1961 Saigon) eventually flatten it.

  • Granite Knob

    It was one of those trips where we pack up the car, take off, and then decide to go somewhere else. We were headed for Alabama Hills, but I just couldn’t let the turnoff up 9-mile Canyon go by. So we went to Granite Knob, a somewhat remote, lush, meadowy spot in the northern Domelands.…

  • Ankle Recovery?

    I have rested my ankle for three weeks without getting too unraveled. Yesterday Dr. Horn examined it and gave me the OK to start using it again. It’s a relief, but still a worry. The tendon really does have a noticable little snap when I move in certain ways – he said the lay sports…

  • Good Life

    I was poking around a bit looking for pages on the Moon Goddess Arete, which Ted hiked to the base of over the weekend and is eager to climb, when I found this simple homepage, which struck me as an example of life lived well.