We climbed to the top of the 5th highest waterfall in the world (according to the guide book though there seems to be some dispute; wikipedia places it 18th and the world waterfall database ranks it 20th), our legs are still aching.
This is what it looks like about half way up:
This is a view from the bottom, you can’t see the lower part of the falls:
I really need not to eat any more beef for quite a while, vegetarian options in California being surprisingly hard to come by (or at least hard to choose when they’re more expensive than cheese burgers which are the one thing American cuisine gets consistently right. Having said that we did have some really nice food, including the über-Californian sea food tacos, I’m definitely going to try to recreate those).
We also saw amongst other wild animals; desert tortoises, coyotes, and sea lions:
Also a black bear! Which I failed to photograph.
And a some not so wild but very photogenic jellyfish.
Over the last few years I’ve seen an increasing number of cartograms used to display single dimensional country by country statistics such as GDP, carbon emissions, electoral college votes etc with varying degrees of success. My team has been involved with production of a few too (1. 2).
Hello, I’m going away for 3 weeks. I’ll take lots of photos to post when we get back. When we return we’re moving flat so you’ll have to come over and check it out before we start messing it up to make it nicer. Especially you lot who we haven’t seen properly for ages.
My favourite website at the moment is muxtape it’s very web 1.0, no community features or ratings or tagging or what have you, the only customisation is that you get to choose a hex colour. You just make mix tapes. Here’s mine constructed of fragments remaining on my work hard drive after I last purged the music directory.
Incidentally, whilst the casette in the image above claims to be “GREAT FOR EVERYDAY RECORDING” that’s actually a lie. I had just such a tape onto which i copied Wilmslow library’s double CD of Future Sound Of London’s preposterous ambient sound-scape Lifeforms. After only one playing the ultra thin 120min tape was already stretching.
As is traditional just before I go on holiday I’m ill at the moment. This did give me an opportunity to watch the remade Assault On Precinct 13 yesterday, pretty poor. It’s got her out of the Sopranos in it and Omar out of The Wire was in the Sopranos last night hopefully when I start Wire 4 when we get back from holiday I’ll spot someone else in it and the Markov chain will continue. Needless to say, it didn’t have the proper music…
Also, and finally, I got round to playing the new Advance Wars and by simple virtue of the fact that :
they’ve ditched CO powers.
You can skip ALL and I mean ALL speech and
3. you can turn off all battlefield animations not just combat ones
it is the best in the series. I blasted through the first 15 missions in a satisfyingly swift 4 hours, blissfully unaware of whatever stupid storyline they’ve dreamed up to accompany the tactical shenanigans. Though I do still miss the biggest tank being called Medium Tank.
