Bill turned me onto a couple new (to me) blogs by a local guy named Chris Tingom. One is brainfuel.tv, which tends to have a lot of good web design critique and analysis. The other is Arizona Coffee, a topic near and dear to my heart. (I like to spend time around the corner at Stonegrounds, using their free WiFi to work from “home” 
).
This is kind of cool. MarsEdit will upload images to WordPress, if you install this patched version of the xmlrpc.php file.
BTW - this is Cathedral Rock, from our hike over Labor Day this year.
Via bbum: Cooking For Engineers.
Jodi and I went to Sedona with her parents (who were in town for the weekend) and went hiking up to Cathedral Rock. Now, the nice lady at the visitor’s center told us about the 1.5 mile hike to Cathedral Rock, along the treeline next to Oak Creek… she neglected to mention the hot barren .75 mile stretch before you get to the creek, and the barren .5 mile stretch after the creek. Or the .6 mile 600′ technical ascent to Cathedral Rock at the end. I think she was trying to kill us.
Morbus Iff, and a cast of thousands (for a very tiny definition of ‘thousands’), have released a new GameGrene site, Ghyll. Ghyll is a RPG where players take on the role of a scholar documenting the history of an imaginary world called Ghyll. Based on the concept documented here, I think this is a really cool idea. Hypermedia rules.
Ghyll is different from previous Lexicons [...] because there is no pre-existing world for entries to derive from. We don’t know if the world of Ghyll is fantasy, cyberpunk, sci-fi, horror, or all of the above. Ghyll is a blank slate, and will be defined and finessed by our entries. Anything goes until everyone knows.
Update: More on Ghyll from it’s other founder, Sean Palmer.
If I get off my butt and start arranging it, I’m hoping to hike part of the Grand Canyon this fall with my borther-in-law. Being a hat-man myself, I immediately decided I would need an appropriate head covering for this adventure. Shelly LeSueur, Content Connections‘ adventuress-in-residence, suggested this magnificent-looking hot-weather hiking hat from a company called Sunday Afternoons.
It looks well-made and well ventilated. I’ll have to see where I can find one…
Jodi and I went with my new boss David and his wife Kristy to see the live taping of NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Spa. We had a lot of fun, even if it was (relatively) cold out. Adam Felber, comedian and blogger, won the quiz, bad jokes were made, and good times were had by all.
Read an early draft of my Personal Platform.
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