Friday Ephemera
And then this happened. // Thunderstorm at 37,000 feet. // French horn and chair. // Atomic Filmmakers – Hollywood’s secret film studio. // An auction of space history paraphernalia. (h/t, Things) // Inside Porton Down. // Protozoan Pac-Man. // Jellyfish portraits. // Japanese billiards. // BearCam, Katmai National Park, Alaska. // 3D Calvin & Hobbes. // Handmade omni-capable wheels. // Captain America: Civil War – how it should have ended. // Just swipe, they said. // New wave club night, California, 1986. So much moody, so much hair. // UK media influence. // Bookcase Tetris. // Gardening bras. // The Sequence is a game. // And finally, via Paul, it’s a good-news-bad-news thing: “Passers-by found him sitting in the rain with steam coming out of his body.”
The Aliens are here, carry on.
The Aliens are here, carry on.
Are they all playing Pokémon Go?
R.Sherman:
Beautiful. I’ve spent time in various places on the east slopes and foothills of the Sierra, which have meadows like those pictures in the Jarbidge website, but I’ve never actually been in the NE corner of Nevada.
Hmm. I’ve been looking for an additional excuse for a road trip from SF to Boise and Bozeman and the RMNP. Maybe next spring – this year is full of very elderly relatives.
We combined a few days at City of Rocks National Preserve in NW Idaho with the trip and hit RMNP on our way home to the Midwest. If you climb, City of Rocks is worth at least a few days, if not more. From there, its a short jaunt to Jarbidge, albeit crap roads for the last 20 miles.
There’d better be a slideshow coming. And drinks.
(Notes to self: 1) upgrade the encryption and security for my upcoming roadtrip; 2) buy new offroad tires; 3) move more $ from 401-K into drinks fund in case David is cleverer than we think.)
Human Pups
Eh, everyone needs a hobby. Not my sort of thing, but it looks much more enjoyable and much less weird than Morris dancing.
We have a report from the Sun Rises In East Department of Water Is Wet . . .
Charles Ramsey Thinks ‘Some Incident’ Will Take Place at Conventions
NBCNews.com – 2 hours ago
Ah, this is the political season—not merely Year this time in the US, bloody all out 2015-2016 Season— where now everyone is also now finally noticing that all the outdated political bets have gone out the window, and starting the 18th will be the full, all out, convention totally silly season . . .
The more focused comment would have been the matter-of-fact note that Greater security is certainly going to be concern during the approaching rounds of political circuses . . . .
There’d better be a slideshow coming. And drinks.
A few pics. Drinks are on your own. I just got back and need to get to the store.
City of Rocks, Malta, Idaho
Ubiquitous Prickly Pear cactus
More “Ho-hum” landscape
Driving to Jarbidge, Nevada and the trailheads
@ Fred
If you go to Jarbidge, come from the north and drive to Jarbidge, NV. Drive straight through town until you find a decent place to park. GPS is good, but map and compass skills are a must. 4WD is a must for the trip from Jarbidge to the the wilderness. But trust me: it is most definitely worth the effort.
(BTW, if you come from the south and I-80, take time to hike the Ruby Mountains south of Elko, NV.
Via Ace, Jesse Lee Peterson attempts a conversation with members of Black Lives Matter.
And somewhat related. Note that raising an eyebrow at racial segregation is now a basis for being denounced as a “white supremacist.”
RS
Thanks for the pics. Reminds me of Andalucia.
raising an eyebrow at racial segregation
Obviously PoC’s need their own Safe Space where they’ll be free of White, Patriarchal, Cis-normative oppression. Some place where PoC children can be taught by teachers with whom they’ll be able to identify because melanin. Likewise police, judges, politicians, etc. should all be PoC’s so as to avoid any possibility of White Privilege oppressing the population, and PoC college students would be able to study the history of their peoples without being forced to learn anything about Western “Civilization”.
We could call this place PoCistan! Or maybe Liberia.
R.Sherman: At dinner last night turns out my Brother in law had recently been in the Jarbidge area. He agrees it’s worth the trip.
David: Hint- Rick Steves makes good coin recruiting folk like RS and publishing their travel comments. In case the henchlesbian ‘s contraband scheme continues to show crap gross margins…