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Sunday, July 6, 2003
Roll & Rock 
| | Sitting here at Craig's place, where he's teaching the kid some cool games while I catch up on email & stuff. |
| | Had a great trip up through the back country between Park City and Salt Lake City, by way of Brighton and Big Cottonwood Canyon. |
| | Here's a hunk of fallen rock that caught my attention, because it is so obviously the fossil remains of an ocean floor. When we walked up to it, the ripple pattern all but dissappeared, and it looked like the rest of the broken and shattered rock around it. I guessed, from the geology book I carried along, that this was a sample of the .7 billion year old Big Cottonwood formation, a sedimentary matrix that forms the spine of the Wasatch. As rock goes, it's impressively old, though not nearly in the same league as the 2.5 billion year old gneiss that comprises much of Antelope Island, which lays like a sleeping bear in the flats of the Great Salt Lake, just north of the airport. |
Wi-Found
| | I love wardriving. The boy and I are on our way out of town to go on a geology exploration trip. But we're heading out in wardriving mode, with the laptop 'stumbling for signals. Found one at a Starbucks. It's not a t-mobile and it's open (yaaay!). Just pulled down 531 emails. The kid wanted to see the Tamiya site, since we built a 4WD racer yesterday (the Fighter Magnum VFX, on this page here). He's really into it. We'll be back in time for a race this afternoon. He's hoping there's another track around Santa Barbara somewhere. |
| | Okay, off to see the rocks. |
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