Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Guest Starring in Another Blog

http://www.elbloggotorcido.com/2007/04/rainy_saturday.html

Twisted Oak Winery in the Angels Camp / Vallecito grey area.

This was a fun day, we went to Moaning Caverns and played in Big Trees in the snow, I took plenty of photos, none of which are seen here.

Twisted Oak was our lunch stop, and the tasting was fun until the annoying dude took over the task. The other staff promptly found another place to be (I don't think they enjoyed him either). Leaving us all alone with this guy who practically opened with a phrase like " My girlfriend's been goth longer than you girls." WTF? how many things are being presumed there(I count at least three), for what purpose, and who gives a crap, dude? He later implicated himself in a possible hypothetical affair with one of our party, which took place after a non-existent party where neither participant remembered clearly the things that didn't happen. Yeah right buddy. I like twisted oak a lot, but I wouldn't want to have to endure that guy again. A sales tip I was taught is never set off the BS detector even for a moment or you'll never get your credibility back.

Anyway enough about loser-face, The wine there is really nice, overall, as are the people.

Tune in later for a couple small galleries, one for moaning caverns, and one for big trees. I took some awesome photos.

elex out

posted by Elex | 10:28 AM | 2 comments  

Wednesday, April 11, 2007


posted by Elex | 4:38 PM | 4 comments  

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

starting here:
Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/03/SECURITY_MATTERS0322

and then going here
Being Analog
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/being_analog.html

leads a person to examine a lot of what makes up the world, and the way that people work. I pondered it for a long time while reading this, and came up with so many topics that branch of in so many direstions leading to several different discussions. But the first one that came to mind is a fairly simple reduction of a concept presented near the beginning of "Being Analog"

Communication requires
Error-Tolerence requires
Empathy requires
Honesty requires
Transperancy

read those essays, please.

posted by Elex | 4:51 PM | 1 comments