From Eagles Rock you can look back east and see the Massanutten range and pretty much all of Shenandoah National Park. From Tibbets Knob there is a nice view of a valley and “Big Schloss” which is a rock formation and the destination of another popular local hike.
Figure 1: “But is it art?” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Harpers Ferry: a quaint little town, vegan restaurants, a national park, Appalachian Trail headquarters, great place to hop a train to DC or Pittsburgh, a Kansas album cover or a great place to start a civil war? It’s all in how you look at it, who’s looking, and when.
This is a picture I took on a hike above the town on Loudoun Heights Saturday and the painting of John Brown in the John Brown museum.
Figure 1: “Harpers Ferry” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
I’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately. A snatch of a poem my grandmother used to quote about finding meaning in work came to mind: Oh, you gotta get a glory In the work you do; A hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint, or tell a story, Sing, or shovel coal, But you gotta get a glory Or the job lacks soul. Berton Baley Even Google and Duck-Duck Go don’t know much about it, so here it is in my grandmothers handwriting.
I watched the Super Bowl last night, in which a second Ohio team just missed a national championship in a year. There is no joy in Porkopolis. I don’t know any good football poems, but…
Figure 1: “Joy in Mudville” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
The Iliad and Dr Seuss have nothing to say to us today. “One fish, two fish”? Really. Recent translations of liner-A tablets reveal that it was a faceBOOK post that launched 1000 ships.
Figure 1: “Oracle headquarters, Delphi, Greece AUC MMDCCXLII” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Today was the day I made the choice to live for an entire work-day on an IPv6-only network. And it worked. I’ve been watching this slow train comin’ for 30 years. Now I’m holding my breath for CNLP :-)
Why I hike. A picture is worth 1000 words
Figure 1: “Sun behind ice on tree” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
This may be obvious to people who are fluent in several languages, but communicating in different languages does not have to be like working a proof in geometry. The Latin I learned focused on being able to consciously understand all 144 different inflected forms (yes, 144) of any standard Latin verb. Pretty sure most children in antiquity could not separate a genitive geurnd from a supine from a plural perfect passive participle. But they could talk.
Figure 1: “Forum Romanarum Nocte, Anno MMXIX” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Illuminati is a game that allows you indulge your inner conspiracy theorist, hopefully in a self-aware tongue-in-cheek manner. My son apparently made off with my copy. I think he’s in on it. He took it as part of a secret communist conspiracy to keep me from suspecting the truth about secret communist conspiracies…
Figure 1: No, really, the Freemasons have been secretly runing America since it’s founding.
My great aunt took her first motorcycle ride at 100.
Figure 1: “Aunt Bess Takes Her First Motorcycle Ride at 100” by George Jones is licensed under cc by 2.0
Some thoughts on living in a small town, neuroscience and life.
What are you doing on your 100th birthday?