cyberhobo

Author: cyberhobo

  • Contemplations, Switched Plans, and Golden Cliffs

    Our plan was to head back to Vedauwoo today, and we told many people that we’d be there for an overnight trip. But even though we’re very excited to spend more time at Vedauwoo, there is another idea stewing in our heads, and this morning our conversation turned to it. Ann and I have been…

  • CDT Anniversary

    Ann reminded me that this week a year passed since we set off from the Mexico border to hike the Continental Divide Trail. I feel a little guilty that the day slipped by without snapping me out of my busy work week to recognize it. It’s still very emotional thinking back to that first day…

  • Movie: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

    This movie compares mental illness and drug addiction to love, and has fun doing it. I wouldn’t usually root for a violent, thieving stalker as a hero, but what if such tactics are the only ones that would ever get through to the self-loathing, drug-addicted object of his obsession? The dangerous presumption is that his…

  • Antics at Vedauwoo

    At last, my old childhood stomping ground is melted off and climbable! We headed up to Vedauwoo with our friend Alan to introduce him to climbing, and I eased back onto the lead on Easy Friction, 5.4. We all had a ball on this familiar slab, Easy Lieback 5.5, Cold Fingers 5.7, and Dropzone 5.9.…

  • Movie: Bottle Rocket

    I thought this was a refreshing, satirical break from the “crime movie” genre. The characters and the setup are ridiculous on one level, and very real on another. It’s light entertainment that, if you think about it, asks difficult questions about the nature of crime, justice, mental illness, love, friendsip, and cultural clashes.

  • Movie: Heathers

    This movie has only gotten better, and maybe more disturbing, since it was released in 1989. Since then Columbine and other high school killings have made this kind of satire even more taboo. And it is unnerving to wonder if the perpetrators of those attrocities found inspiration in the trenchcoat-clad Christian Slater character. Still, the…

  • CCB website goes live with TYPO3

    After sitting on it for a while, the Center for Computational Biology at the University of Colorado has gone live with the website I built for them. I reused the graphics from their previous website, but migrated the whole thing to the TYPO3 content management system, adding WYSIWYG editing, user registration, a multiple mailing list…

  • Movie: The Big Lebowski

    This was my second time around for this movie, Ann’s first. I think I liked it better this time. The Cohen brothers are just amazing at creating ludicrous, unreedeming, even annoying characters that are somehow facinating anyway – maybe because of the way they reflect truths from our world in such a dazzling, kaleidoscopic way.

  • Hi Randy

    Ann’s brother Randy, a first lieutenant in the army stationed in Baquba, Iraq, has written some great letters home about his experiences there. Among many things he’s mentioned that he often checks the hobolog when he has a few minutes online, so I thought I’d say “Hi!”. Feel free to add your greetings…

  • Reviews from the Boz

    My old friend Roy Boswell kindly sent a batch of movie recommendations for me. A few of them are reviewed here too. Roy got rejected by my spam software – if this is happening to you please send me an email! I’m trying to find good settings for it. Read on for Roy’s reviews…