We woke up this morning to more fog. There are mountains to the west as we head further north, but we can’t see them, although the sun breaks through the fog from time to time. Every tree and blade of grass is coverd in hoarfrost. Everyone in Alberta appears to drive giant pick up trucks, most of which are hauling a pair of snow mobiles riding atop a big metal plate that’s mounted on top of the bed walls. We’re currently following one that’s carrying a 4-wheeler instead. Wow! We just escaped the fog and can see the peaks! We…
We’re currently sitting on highway 12 in Montana waiting for a pilot car to lead us through a construction zone. Ah, here it comes. On Friday, I didn’t set my alarm, but we woke up at 7:38 anyway, two minutes before my alarm normally would have gone off. Still, even though we’d packed our bags the night before, it took us nearly two hours to gather everything and pack it into the car, including the snow shoes, which are surprisingly bulky for essentially being very flat devices. We decided not to camp on this trip because we expected it to…
Finally. I’m probably going to have a pile of stuff so large when I get back that I’ll never going to get done. I think, traditionally, college kids head to Florida for Spring Break. We’re going to Canada! Here’s a vague outline of our route. We don’t think we’re likely to actually get that far north, but we might. If we’re in the mood, we may stay somewhere for a couple of days. We may just mostly drive and look at mountains. Because we like doing that. Normally, on a trip like this, we’d camp. But campgrounds are likely to…
Fantastic movie. From the description of it, I didn’t think I’d like it at all, but I loved it. Probably in my top 25. I couldn’t believe that anyone did anything like this in 1984. It made sense once I found out that it was a co-production between West Germany and France. It’s set in the U.S., so I didn’t realize it was European. It’s the movie that inspired Joshua Tree. I’ve also been playing with Criticker. Check it out. Probably a better recommendation engine than others I’ve seen.
I’m not the best web server admin, mostly because it tends to bore me. My little server spends most of its time idle, and 90% of the requests it gets are from Google’s bot. (I’ve actually just used Google’s web-admin tools to seriously reduce the crawl rate on my server, because its continually re-examining images that haven’t changed in a decade… To the tune of 2GB per month. Things are much more acceptable, now.) Anyway, I was listening to my new old Dan Bern album (New American Language) and it started stuttering. I quickly determined the problem wasn’t with the…