The past two weekend I’ve spent climbing in Red Rocks, Nevada. In these four short days I’ve climbed some of the most amazing, long, and fun routes of my climbing career. Of particular note is a route called Community Pillar. Now this climb might not be your typical “classic” route, but it was HILARIOUS. The amount of squeezing through improbable holes and up tight chimneys you do is mind blowing. And watching people attempt to go through holes they are fairly certain will get them stuck is entertainment like nothing else. Here’s a video I made for my climbing partner Erin who couldn’t join me because she’s in Nova Scotia:
You can check out the photos I took from both weekends here, and here.
Want a CHEAP ipod touch case? Too lazy to order a real case online? Are you just plain crazy? Well follow these easy steps to create a great ghetto ipod touch case…
1. Buy a pack of Dentyne ice gum. 2. Chew the gum, all of it.
3. Remove plastic. 4. Slide ipod into your brand new Dentyne ice iPod Touch case.
5. (OPTIONAL) Cut hole into case so you can control music without removing touch from its case.
6. … 7. Profit?
Pretty sweet case, huh? Huh? I rate it a solid 2 out of 10.
Sunday before last I spent an afternoon bouldering and sport climbing over at the Mine Area of Queen Creek. Over the past few months RCC has begun to restrict access to some of the areas of Queen Creek they own. Here’s a little update on the situation:
The road before the old parking area now has keep out signs…
… and the old parking area itself now has a fence with razor wire, yikes!
It’s not all bad news though. They’ve created a new parking area next to the road. There’s a new trail that someone has cleared from there, up the wash, and to the old trail.
It seems like Resolution Copper Company wants people to stop climbing in the Mine area sooner rather than later. On Saturday Gina and I headed out to Apache Leap, only to find the parking pullout for the Mine Area blocked off by two huge cement barriers. On the other side of the barriers stood a sign stating “CAUTION BLASTING IN PROCESS”…
Before that, on either side of the paved road were private property signs as well:
It appears that this is the beginning of the end for the Mine area.
Yes, I did finally get my ipod, after a week of watching other people who didn’t pre-order play with theirs. I’m not bitter though. One thing I’ve noticed is that the iPhone version of Safari and the iTouch version are slightly different, and report themselves as being a different client. Take a look at these logs:
192.168.1.119 - - [24/Sep/2007:15:56:49 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1296 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A100a Safari/419.3"
192.168.1.115 - - [24/Sep/2007:15:56:53 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1296 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3"
Within hours of Steve Job’s keynote announcing the iPod Touch I put in my pre-order for one. I’ve been waiting months for a widescreen iPod. Ever since my video iPod (or iPod classic as they’re called now) was stolen, I’ve been waiting for a new version of the iPod before going out and purchasing one. There’s some part of me that hates purchasing the exact same piece of technology that I already owned. Even though I loved my old iPod, I couldn’t bring myself to put up the money for the exact same thing. I wanted something better, cooler, sexier.
So when the Touch was announced, I knew immediately that I was going to buy it. I pre-ordered it because I assumed that would be the fastest way to get one. If I had known that people walking into Best Buys and Apple stores last week were going to be able to buy them off the shelf before mine even ships, then I would have held off and got one from the store. To add insult to injury, the status of my order is “Prepared for Shipment”. This status is some state where I cannot change or cancel my order and am left to do nothing but wait.
Thanks Apple! This is the first and last time I use the apple online store to buy anything.
How do you retaliate against those annoying neighbors? How about a CD full of revenge:
“A great way to get back at those noisy neighbors! Give them a taste of their own medicine with any one of these 20 ear-splitting sound effect tracks. Anyone who’s ever lived in an apartment will really appreciate this hilarious CD! Earplugs supplied for your listening pleasure. Imported from France.
