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Movie: Walk the Line (2005)
This was mostly an educational experience for me. When I saw Johnny, John, and June Carter Cash play on my birthday in 1996, I didn’t realize quite what a legacy I was witnessing. While the movie increased my appreciation of that legacy, it didn’t shed too much light on the enigma I’ve always been curious…
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Vedauwoo – Poland Hill
This morning we head to Poland Hill, intending to get schooled on some more Vedauwoo cracks. We hope to toprope Fantasia, 5.9, a “classic Vedauwoo offwidth”, but the anchor situation up top doesn’t allow for an easy toprope of this route. So we end up on: Southwest Friction, 5.6. Ann leads this out of the…
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Vedauwoo moonrise
We try a new campsite along FR 700S, further from the interstate than most. After dinner we take a hike to explore the local woods and boulders. A small elk observes our foray into his territory from across a meadow. The day ends in a glorious sunset/moonrise that bathes Vedauwoo in colors that I felt…
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Vedauwoo – Fried on Friday
I’m working extra hours this summer to take every other Friday off, and this is the first. The extra day makes the weekend into a whole different thing, not just an extra day but a day when few people are out. Ann is interested in learning to place traditional gear, so I suggest we spend…
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Geo Mashup 0.4.1 Released
No new features in this release. I’ve decided to drop all dependency on the WordPress RSS feeds – these are just done too many different ways. Most problems with posts not displaying in the infowindow have been due to this dependency. So there is now one less place for things to go wrong, and I…
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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…