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Vedauwoo – Valley Massif
Vedauwoo weather is highly variable this time of year. I figured the best strategy would be to go fairly early so that when the weather window opens, we’re ready to jump through. Ann, Sean, Rogan, and I reach the Reynolds parking area on FS 700 around 9:30 in a cold wind. Some hardy frisbee golfers…
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Movie: Capote (2005)
A well done tragedy, with good attention to detail and an impressive performance by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I haven’t read In Cold Blood, but the film seemed adept at telling that story through the story of how it was written, which supplies a bit of a biography of Capote in the process. Ann has read…
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Geo Mashup WordPress Plugin Release 0.4
The move to Google Maps API version 2 is the motivator for this release, since Google will eventually turn off version 1. The API has also removed the XSLT functionality I was using to render the post in the infowindow. I suspected this functionality was causing some of the loading problems people have experienced too,…
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Movie: Monsiuer Ibrahim (2003)
Probably just because it’s a coming of age flick I thought of Scent of A Woman after watching this. Only the kid is the dour, promiscuous one, the women are smiling, motherly prostitutes, and the outlook is Parisian, with life flowing in an endless cycle of shoplifted sardines, books of true wisdom, diluted Beaujolais, and…
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Movie: They Live (1988)
The saving grace of this film is its portrayal of the media. When “Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s character puts on the sunglasses of truth, billboards, TV, magazines, signs, and papers show their true messages in black and white: “OBEY”, “BUY”, “CONSUME”, “WATCH TV”, “MARRY AND REPRODUCE”, etc. And the movers and shakers of society are revealed…