This is simply a mishmash of topics that I didn’t want to highlight on the main navigation bar, but still wanted accessible in some fashion. Many of these posts date from the early days of my blog, so be warned.
It’s been a couple of months since we returned from our post-wedding roadtrip through the South. It was an interesting trip, one that didn’t much resemble our usual national park trips: we stayed in a hotel every night, we spent most of our time at historical sites (as opposed to natural sites), and, well, we … Read more
Time lapse: Pigeon Forge to Cumberland Gap from Scott Jones on Vimeo.
Roadtrip update from 7/27 from Scott Jones on Vimeo.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, we aren’t taking the trip we had intended. Originally, the plan was to head up from Yosemite through the Cascades and into the Canadian Rockies, a hiking and camping trip anchored by visits to Lassen, North Cascades, Banff, and Jasper national parks. Unfortunately, Kim came down with strep … Read more
You brought much-needed social commentary into our lives and managed to make it funny, too.
I know that I haven’t yet explained my recent job change here, but I will soon. One of the benefits of the new job is that I’m now working entirely from home. While this presents some challenges, overall it’s a great development for me. I downloaded some time lapse software a couple of nights ago … Read more
A great update to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth presentation was heard at TED in March. It’s about 27 minutes long, but his updated thoughts are well worth every second. Check it out below.
Kim and I are back from a very frustrating weekend in Lake Havasu City. I was headed there for a conference and thought it might be nice to bring Kim along. We had planned to visit the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge on the way, but I was up late the night before working on a … Read more
After reading about Matt’s name change, I decided to investigate locking up a shorter url for my own web identity–not that anyone else besides me cares what my domain name is. Unfortunately, someone already owns sco.tt, though I frankly couldn’t have afforded the $500/year registration fees even if it was there for the taking. However, … Read more
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 1. Fall Down, Arizona (to tune of Bear down, Arizona): Fall down, Arizona, Fall down, black and blue. Fall down, Arizona, You know damn well you’re through. So it’s Trip! Fall! Drop that ball! Arizona, you are screwed! 2. Here comes the band The U of A band With endless repetition. The … Read more