Here are some of the photos from the Copeland Track. I wanted to put the panoramas together before I put them up online, but I still don't know how to use that program, so I haven't. In fact I can't even find the program. I'm sure photoshop will do it, but I don't know how to use that either. So this is what you get for now. For more info on the track go back to the "Copeland Track" post from October. Oh and double click on the picture that has "check out the size of that rock" written beneath it. There are TWO people in that photo, one standing in front of the gigantic rock. Click on the title of this post to get to the pics, enjoy.
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So I finally got around to putting some pictures up of a day in NZ. There's extremely limited caption space on .mac as it turns out, but I think you'll get the picture. More pictures of rocks and trees and things are coming up soon.
This just in from the Morison brothers:
Dan has informed me the women in their late 20's hitting on younger men at the bar are called Pumas. Not quite Cougars but on their way.
Tom has commented that fur coats coming back into style is an example of the Mohawk Quotient. I'm not sure if it fits the criteria exactly, but he has a point. When did this become ok again? Is it some kind of fashion trickle down from our newly founded big red nation? Personally I have no problem with people wearing fur, under the following 2 conditions:
1. Those shawls with the skinned faces of the fox/mink etc. still attached. Those are hardcore. If women want to wear the skinned faces of animals I say right on sister, get nasty as you wanna be!
2. The people wearing the fur have killed and eaten the animal from which it came.
I realize the hypocracy involved in having these views and wearing leather, but I'm willing to accept that.
Click on the title or the "Link" below to be taken to my knife page.
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The other day, walking to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit [the train]) I came across two blind men. Both had those long feeling sticks (anyone know what those are officially called?) and the one behind was grasping the arm of the one in front, just above the elbow. They were having a conversation and feeling their way through the exit of the BART station. Literally the blind leading the blind.
In other news: a couple of terms I'd like to add to the lexicon.
Cougar= an older woman dressed up at the bar preying on younger men. There are all kinds of classifications of cougar, all of which can be found by clicking on the link attached to this post. I obviously didn't make this one up and am one of the last to know but I think it's hilarious; check it out if you've got a moment.
The Mohawk Quotient: This is the phenomenon of former indigenous people's customs being integrated into modern western culture, first through the underground and then into the main stream. Named after the Mohawk haircut, first used by the warriors of the Mohawk tribe in North America, then a hundred years later or so employed by punkers all over the world, then 20 years later embraced by modern fashion slightly altered (the faux-hawk). NZ had a very high Mohawk Quotient as they've only recently taken to actively preserve the Maori culture/language and now all the young Kiwis are walking around with greenstone fish hooks around their necks and many with Maori tattoos as well.
I did make up the Mohawk Quotient and there's probably a better way to describe the phenomena I'm talking about but I haven't figured it out yet. You all will of course be the first to know.
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