Category: hiking

09/12/10 02:14 - 62.ºF - ID#52722

Little Rock City

We went back to little rock city. This time we got totally crazy and were jumping between rocks with 20ft+ drops. At one point we were able to jump between 3 rocks. I wish (e:jacob) could have been there. He would have loved it.

(e:terry) is insane. I will try and climb just about an

Below is a major dropoff like 40+ feet down

Sadly, this time we found a clean cut area

(e:keith) jumping to the second rock. I am so sad that this video is sideways. Someday I should edit and rotate it. I tried to compile ffmpeg to enable the vfilter rotation option but it did not work.

trying to convince Casey to jump.

(e:keithT) posing as a tough guy

I tracked our whole journey on google's My Tracks. I wanted to be able to return to the part I was too afraid to jump on.

The rest are caseys photos from (e:keithT)'s facebook.

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Category: art

09/12/10 11:17 - 62.ºF - ID#52720

Real Iron Work on 219 Near Springville

I am not sure what the name really is but I thought "Real Iron Work" based on the sign below. I should have snagged the location but I forgot.

On our way back to Little Rock City yesterday we stopped at that iron works gallery on the 219. They have some pretty awesome pieces. I wonder if the Griffis inspired them, or if they are the same people.

I want the tree house so bad. I always wanted a tree house but our yard has no tree house sized tree. I never considered building one.

I guess they like turles and tortoises too.

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Category: web

09/12/10 11:04 - 62.ºF - ID#52719

My love/hate of scenic boys blog

Caution with the link, it contains some non-sexual nudity but also a ton of awesome hiking pics and videos from the west coast more non-nude than nude.

Every once in a while I go back to

and check out their latest adventures. They seem to always put mine to shame. Recently, they got back from Burning Man. I am entirely jealous. They remind me of the (e:Terry) and I from our pre-buffalo days but somehow they got a bunch of friends to join them on their adventures. Living on the west coast gives them such a tremendous advantage with adventure options.

That pic is from their adventure in may

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Category: computers

09/12/10 09:42 - 61.ºF - ID#52718

Blind worship of Apple

PC mag has this article showing the new update to the iphone seems to slow it down more

(e:matthew)'s iphone 3g has major speed issues since he first upgraded to iOS 4 so I was curious about the results of the latest update. Regardless of the test results being accurate or not, its comments like this that make me question the sanity of apple fanatics.

joe6778
September 11, 2010 12:46pm

I've had my 2g since 1.0 and it gets slower with each update. Just yesterday I was telling my wife it took like 60 seconds to check a received text message.

With that said the iphone is by far still the best game in town.

Really joe? You think a phone that takes 60 seconds to check a text message ( a key phone function) is the best game in town. Sounds like you haven't shopped around very much.

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Category: food

09/11/10 01:15 - 69.ºF - ID#52707

Pork chops and pear sauce

I got to use the pear sauce with the organic grilled pork chops and Rosemary.

I topped it off with these amazing grapes. This type of grape is my favorite. They are dark green and similar in texture to Concord but the seeds aren't as bitter.

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Category: food

09/11/10 11:29 - 65.ºF - ID#52705

pear sauce

At around 10PM I started to clean the kitchen and make pear sauce. I didn't finish until 3am but the pear sauce looks and smells so yummy. I didn't have much choice about waiting because I was working with the broken pears that fell from the tree in the wind storm the other day and got damaged.

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Category: chocolate

09/10/10 11:49 - 58.ºF - ID#52703

Giovanni hot chocolate sugar scrub

I don't even know what this stuff is for but it smelled more amazing then anything I ever smelled so I bought it.

Ingredients: organic sugar, Safflower seed oil, Theobroma Cacao (cocoa beans), honey, polysorbate 20, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Kukui nut, shea butter, vitamin e, Walnut shell

Instructions: Scrub. Under a warm shower, dip into jar and then rub across body to exfoliate all over. Rinse.

Cost: $10.99 but I think it seems like it would last a long time and the smell is so good.

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Category: food

09/10/10 11:03 - 61.ºF - ID#52700

dragonfruit

Has anyone ever tried a dragon fruit. I could not get myself to spend the $6.50 but now I feel like I might have missed out on something magical.

These ones came from vietnam, but how crazy that is really native to central america and was brought to vietnam by the french.

The dragonfruit is native to Central America. According to Aztec literature, Pitahaya fruits date back to the 13th century. In Vietnam, where it is extensively grown, Pitaya fruit is known as thang loy. It is believed that the fruit was introduced to Vietnam by the French and today, the average yield per hectare is 20-25 tonnes.

More info can be found here: