cyberhobo

Author: cyberhobo

  • Memorial Day Friend Gathering

    We nearly call off our camping plans due to the rainy weather forecast, but decide to give it a chance. The forecast is right. We all spend a rainy night at Tres Piedras, then wander around on Saturday getting excited to climb every time the rain stops for an hour, but it always starts again.…

  • Amazing Agave

    Ann and I take an obligatory walk to Java Joe’s to get some air when we happen upon this incredible Agave stalk preparing to bloom: Ann’s photostream has a couple more picture’s at full resolution if you’re a Flickr friend.

  • Movie: Special (2006)

    This takes the title for my favorite super hero movie. From? Uh, hmm, I’m sure there is one that I’m not thinking of. Anyway, this is fantastic, somehow capturing the psychotic aspect of both comic book heroism and regular human heroism perfectly.

  • A Postholy Day in May

    It seems like every summer it gets warm in the valley, the snow disappears from the peaks, and I go running gleefully up into the mountains in shorts, memories of last September fresh in my head. And there I find … LOTS OF LINGERING SNOW. So it is again this year – it takes us…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2.5

    Yesterday a bug in the Google maps API caused Geo Mashup global maps to be spattered with unwanted category lines (Issue 208). This release fixes that, and a couple of minor problems with the tabbed category index and list posts by area controls. I have a solution now for protecting your custom files from automatic…

  • Below the Old New Place

    We’re introduced by our friend Jason to another finely-named after-work White Rock climbing spot. I get to ease back into some trad leading in perfect temperatures. Putterman Cracks 5.9- A very good way to start. Short but continuous, with good pro. Scandanavian Airlines 5.10c Bonus toprope. Arete and face climbing that gets harder with each…

  • Atalaya in the Evening

    It’s a struggle to climb a steep mountain at the end of the day. The perfect temperatures and clean air help, and unwinding afterward feels fantastic. There is a beautiful yucca bloom that I photograph to identify later, but in a moment of distraction I deleted the pictures. Arg.

  • North Dale Ball Exploration

    There’s a great network of trails east of Santa Fe that doesn’t quite connect to the northern National Forest trails that in turn connect to the Pecos Wilderness. Today we set out to discover if the connection can be made cross-country. It starts well in open piñon forest. Then we hit an old barbed wire…

  • Network of Ensemble Theatres

    Teamed up with Vernal Creative again, we put Geo Mashup to work mapping and listing the theaters that belong to this organization. The presentation is simple and effective, but it also exemplifies the way Geo Mashup makes WordPress into a GeoCMS. The map is really a map of WordPress pages, but in this context a…

  • Scouting for campsites near Utopian Vistas

    This is the first time we’ve had any serious car trouble out in the boonies. We head up US285, then east on NM567, and finally up a small forest road. We’d like to find a good group campsite for the memorial day weekend, but it’s getting dark and we decide to settle in for the…