cyberhobo

Month: November 2003

  • Movie: Offret (The Sacrifice)

    A dense, strange, stilted Swedish movie that follows some high-bred characters as they grapple with isolation after the onset of world war III. Its philosophical monologues and symbolic characters seem to have potential, which kept us watching. Either they never panned out, or didn’t seem worth the effort to follow. In the end it felt…

  • Charcoal Kilns

    On our way down from the Telescope Peak trailhead we stop to peer at these odd constructions. Designed by Swiss engineers and built by Chinese laborers, these kilns burned piñon pines into charcoal for the Modock mine 30 miles south. They were operated for three years, then left as perches for the ravens and whatever…

  • Telescope Peak

    When the alarm goes off at 4 am, I have no clue what we’re in for. We throw breakfast, lunch, and gear together in a blur and are in the car by 5 when we discover the car windows are iced and the defroster doesn’t work. Not the sort of thing we noticed while the…

  • New Look, New Guts

    The folks at WordPress have finally made enough improvements to the b2 blogging software I was using to entice me to upgrade. They ship with a pretty nice looking layout, I think, so I just made a few tweaks to hobo-ize it and called it home. It will require more tweaking I’m sure before it’s…