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| Thursday, April 7, 2005 |
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Drive and drink 
| | Just uploaded a pile of pictures, mostly of poppies and lupins (bonus: one lizard), from a trip up Figueroa Mountain road last weekend. Highly recommended. (Step through the whole series, if you have time. I'm not just showing off here. I'm selling a Cool Drive. This is one of the most beautiful trips you can take, anywhere.) |
| | The drive circles out of Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley. If you've seen the movie Sideways, this trip, through the Los Padres National Forest, looks down into the vineyards from the north, at elevations up to about four thousand feet. |
| | If you're tempted to go to Death Valley or some other remote place to see desert flowers, consider this as a worthy alternative. The flowers are just as nice (if not nicer), the views are spectacular, and it's a short trip out of some of the prettiest Wine Tasting Country in the world. Four hours from San Francisco, two from L.A. The drive is fabulous by car (the trip down from the Bay Area is a treat in itself), and a favorite for bicyclists. |
I was overheard to have said...
You, like, you know, fucking figure it out.
| | Adam just explained FIP to me. That being the Fucking Insertion Principle. It says You can insert fucking between any fucking words or any fucking syllable you want. |
| | Since like is to California what fucking is to New Fucking York, I wonder if there's, like, a fucking LIP: a Like Insertion Principle that says, You can, like, insert like, like, between, you know, any, like, word you, like, want. |
| | Of course, there is the corresponding YKIP. |
Demanding a decount
| | Crabby Blogs Blogs, at Time goes by: ...think of it: we begin as strangers out here in the blogosphere, but it is impossible to remain so for long. It's a much better idea, Crabby thinks, to dwell on this than the number of one's blog readers. |
| | By the way, I have no idea how many people read this blog. Says here the reads (not readers) number from a few hundred to a few (like, 2 to 5) thousand, per day. Which is about what it's been for three or four years. I'm sure there are plenty more, via RSS feeds. But I have no idea. |
| | I never cared much, even when I paid attention to the numbers. One posting on Tuesday was, in a way, a goofy experiment in attention-grabbing; and that day brought the lowest read-count in recent memory. |
| | What matters are links. Link a lot, and write stuff that attracts other links a lot; and you'll be fine. |
Stang, cont'd.
| | Last day with the new rental Mustang. Gotta say it really does handle nicely. And it accelerates well. Makes me wish the thing had a stick-shift, which is an option. The style and manners of the car cry out for a stick. |
| | I still can't forgive Ford for subtracting MP3 CD playing ability from a car that's higher on the coolness (and pricing) ladder than the plain new Focus sedan, where MP3-playing comes standard (though they don't mention MP3 at all at that last link). |
| | Did I say I hate the flashy, annoying, slo-loading Web site, which prevents linking to specific feature-set pages? Arg. |
Only 5?
| | PC4Media: I feel like Doc Searls writing 5 unrelated things in one post. He (she? I can't tell) also treats us to this video. |
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