Friday, March 4, 2005

Bald-faced fly

The clues for this pic are in the headilne and four posts down. Also one season later. I shot it in May of last year. Note that there's still a little snow at the top of the mountain.

For an explanation of why there are no suburbs spread across those blank areas in the alluvial deltas below the mountains, read John McPhee's The Control of Nature.

Bonus photolink: Dave's photo of Shea Stadium. Bonus concept: philosphy.

Watch out

The Greater Zero is my latest Suitwatch newsletter.

Much easier to imagine what you can do with something that already exists.

Props to GadgetGuy for digging my idea for making money with podcasting.

I'm kinda surprised that the idea hasn't had much conversational traction. But then, I think this is one of those things where invention needs to mother the necessity, rather than vice versa.

S'no job

So David Sifry was showing me tricks with tags, when I looked up 1984, got to G-man's Just how do you masturbate with a magazine, which features Prince and Purple Rain (great music, bad acting; but it doesn't matter), noticed the snowcapped mountains in the background of G-man's masthead, checked out Mt. Baldy, saw the conditions appear good (considering that the rain in the lowlands is snow at 7800 feet), and decided to make a one-day ski trip with the kid tomorrow.

[Later...] They just changed the forecast a bit:

Moderating temperatures will change morning snow showers to rain showers by late day. Thunder possible. High around 45F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 60%.

I hate when it rains on snow. That was the standard winter forecast for New York when I grew up there. Snow mixed with and changing to rain... Still, worth a try if we get going early, I think.