http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog Thu, 15 May 2008 03:42:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't feel quite as proud of making business calls on my cell phone in on a bike commute anymore. This is my friend Sara with Green Wheels. http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2008/05/14/one-more-reason-my-friend-sara-is-amazing/ Non-profit leaders and info-tech users and providers, At some point I’ve talked with all of you about implementing membership databases, online member registration, email lists, and other constituent relationship management (CRM) tools for non-profits and social activism in the past weeks or year. Some ideas have been batted about, and ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2008/01/01/90/ Dear Readers, It's been a spell since I last posted on this blog, for which I humbly apologize.  I hope to post more in the near future.  Read and comment if you want to encourage me. So, yesterday I was reading the Urban Planning Blog and it had a very random link in a footnote to ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/12/31/does-music-inspire-us-to-fight-for-our-rights%e2%80%a6-or-just-party/ I've finally got around to finishing up the panoramic images from my Caribou Lakes backpack trip and posting them, with other non-panoramic images to a Caribou Lakes gallery on Picasa.  Just looking at these makes me hunger to get out in the Trinity Mountains before it's not too late in ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/10/10/a-few-more-caribou-lakes-panoramas/ One of the most impressive and talked-about art installations on the Black Rock City playa this year was called "Crude Awakening," so I thought I'd dedicated a whole separate post to this installation. Especially because I took a huge number of pictures of it. Here's a picture of the 90 ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/09/24/crude-awakening/ It's been three weeks since I returned from Burning Man in Nevada. It was an eye-popping experience with great highs and lows. I'd definitely want to go again. I went crazy with the camera while I was there, to do what I could to capture the Salvador Dali-like surreal ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/09/24/burning-man-2007-images-online/ A few weekends ago I went backpacking to Caribou Lakes in the Trinities with my friend Brandon Hemenway.  I'm finally getting around to stitching together a few panoramic shots. Caribou Lake is at  41° 1'12.54"N, 122°58'31.48"W. Here's a panoramic image (this is at least 6 stitched-together images) of the view of Caribou ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/09/05/panoramic-images-from-caribou-lake-backpack/ So, I had a suggestion for the makers of Transmit, my favorite FTP client today. I went to Panic's website to send it in and I discovered they had a new software product, Coda, that I am flipping out over. I have no current project to use it ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/08/23/serious-nerd-freak-out-alert-coda/ I have 4 different email addresses that collect into one inbox that sorts messages automatically. I also have about three different phone numbers that don't do that are are a pain-in-the-a** for everyone. No more! I'm starting to use GrandCentral. You can call me here: (707) 633-4464. ... http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/07/19/at-last-thank-god-google-for-our-phones/ I've said it before: the United States is addicted to our cars. Check out my friend Megan Miller's collage she's working on (which expresses this, among many other themes): http://aaron.arcatacommunity.org/blog/2007/07/18/addicted-to-oil/