News You Can Bruise for 2003 April 10

The bar shampoo I mentioned a while back is called J.R. Liggett's Old-Fashioned Bar Shampoo. I don't know if it's actually old-fashined. They have an "herbal formula" which smells weird and is disturbing, but the original formula is excellent.

I put up 77 pictures from the CollabNet retreat back in February. The retreat was held in the lovely Marin mountains by the ocean, near old WWII Japanese-spotting bunkers and an old Nike missile site. Hence the dual themes of nature and old concrete.

Some samples:

• Strata pictures for my mother: 1 2 3 4
• Kevin curses the sun, which vows revenge.
• A nice little valley with an inlet to the ocean.
• Kevin and I spent much of our daytime free time trying make it to the bunker on top of the hill. This is as close as we got (we didn't have a whole lot of free time).
• Caution! Low voltage!
• A splendid sunset. Kind of showy if you ask me.
• I call this island "Sleeping Walrus Island".
• We kept a close eye on San Francisco.
• Remember the site of entrances to hell in and around the UK? Well, let me tell you that we have some pretty fine entrances to hell right here in the States. 1 2
• Kevin was bold enough to brave the entrance to hell.
• Here's Kevin in hell, which turns out to be pretty much as depicted in the old DOS game Doom.
• We also found hell's loading dock. Here I am in my tacky shirt at the loading dock.
• The food was generally pretty good.
• Another sunset picture to keep you on your toes.
• At one point the trail just stopped, due to having been washed away in a mudslide or something. Kevin and I collaborated on this daring depiction of the drop, a picture which makes it look like there is no drop whatsoever. Is it something about my camera? Every time I take a picture of a precarious drop, the resulting picture makes the drop look not that precarious at all.