This is a montage I made. I enjoy playing with scissors.

Theres a lot going on here in this two dollar backpacking magazine – destination, preparation, knowledge, technology, friends, challenge, suffering, the “free gift” theme with religious overtones. Decoupling concepts of “range” and “peaks” and “wilderness” from any specific destinations, casting these concepts into a different light. Also _why_ we go outside, that image of a man sucking water from a puddle who would consider that a plus outside of a contrast with our own high levels of comfort? “survival” still somehow a primitive theme (“caveman!”) with those flames again of religious overtone, accepting the risks of “hellfire” to escape … a modern hell.

1. staple packets
2. plant seedlings

So this guy does his part to save the whitebark conifers where he lives. Hats off, homegrown hero. We salute you.

One more time in case you missed it:

1. staple packets
2. plant seedlings

This is a light bulb I turned on. If you are able to do this too, congratulations! You are probably in the top one percent of people who have ever lived. Funny when you think about it.

This is a phone app I built to tell me how many times a day I check my phone.

I like to know where I stand. So I made this map showing Southern California’s nine geomorphic provinces. I stand at the tippy top of the penisular range province, butting up against the transverse range province. The big picture like this helps me know where I stand. You should know where you stand.

Here is a bar chart I made titled “Paired Data Sets Trending Upward”, showing the strong trend upward of two data sets. This should make you very confident, and feel good about knowing.

In case you’ve ever wondered how to act at a party or a meeting you can print these cards out and pick one for the evening. Don’t look first!

have you truly ever considered a sierra gartersnake or calfornia striped racer? they are just as good as an african rock python but wont eat the children.