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Monday, February 21, 2005
Prey for peace 
| | Shotgun Golf will soon take America by storm. I see it as the first truly violent leisure sport. Millions will crave it. |
| | Shotgun Golf was invented in the ominous summer of 2004 AD, right here at the Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colo. The first game was played between me and Sheriff Bob Braudis, on the ancient Bomb & Shooting Range of the Woody Creek Rod & Gun Club. It was witnessed by many members and other invited guests, and filmed for historical purposes by Dr. Thompson on Super-Beta videotape. |
| | The game consists of one golfer, one shooter and a field judge. The purpose of the game is to shoot your opponent's high-flying golf ball out of the air with a finely-tuned 12-gauge shotgun, thus preventing him (your opponent) from lofting a 9-iron approach shot onto a distant "green" and making a "hole in one." Points are scored by blasting your opponent's shiny new Titleist out of the air and causing his shot to fail miserably. That earns you two points. |
| | It may take awhile for the distractions to evaporate, and for the good doctor's constructive contributions to achieve the recognition they deserve. So here's a head start: |
| | He opened journalism to the rest of us: |
| | I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. |
| | If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. |
| | A word to the wise is infuriating. |
| | The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. |
| | The weather being the mess it was, I watched local L.A. TV news last night. Characteristically, the deaths of Sandra Dee and John Raitt were mentioned; but not the death of Dr. Thompson. (Of course, I could have surfed past it. All three of those links are from NBC.) |
| | The doctor made a virtue of failure at self-destruction: |
| | I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. |
| | It's a bummer that he finally succeeded. |
Wherezat?
| | I'm a geography, geology, aviation and meteorology freak. So naturally I always book a window seat when I fly. I also almost always shoot pictures of the landscapes below. I've taken thousands of shots that are going to waste, unless I do something fun with them. |
| | So I thought I'd start putting them up here every once in awhile, to see if any of ya'll can guess where some of these places are. |
| | Above is an easy one I took en route to London last summer. |
| | No prizes or anything, other than an inbound link to the page of your choice, which you'll get anyway if you put your answer here. |
| | If you can't guess, I've got a (literally) killer hint waiting. |
Heavier weather
| | It's been raining so hard here that our dish has been losing its signal. I can go to the diagnostics screen on the receiver and watch the signal strength go up and down as seas falling from the sky block and unblock the signal's path. |
| | We've only begun to see the mudslides that will result from the quantity of rain falling in the mountains around the L.A. basin, and across Southern California. The situation is much worse in Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties than it is in Santa Barbara County. |
| | But it's still bad here. I just heard thunder. There are even tornado warnings. |
Elsewares
About Times
| | The NYT is paying $410 million for a network of 500 weblogs that collectively have 22 million visitors each month. $410 million / 500 = $820,000 per weblog. |
| | The way I see it, they paid $.41 billion for 0.0000N% of the Web. Hey, that might be a bargain. I really don't know. |
| | Bonus link: an interview by PaidContent.org with Martin Nisenholtz of the NYTimesCo. |
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