Daggett Ridge
Took Golem 1 for a drive back and forth across the infamous Daggett Ridge, a.k.a. the Robots' Graveyard. It was tricky and it is easy to see how vehicles get in trouble. At one point I got temporarily stuck. However, all systems were functioning well.
When I drive on the highway for hours and hours and then get off, normal traffic speeds seem slow and dreamlike. In the same way, a dirt road might normally seem a bit rough, but after an hour or two of driving over really rough terrain, the same dirt road seems preternaturally gentle.
I got sunburned.
We had lunch and dinner at the Slash X. Their Mojave chicken sandwich is pretty good.
Inappropriate License Plate
I saw a license plate today that read
007S CAR.
The car was an Aston Martin, of course? A Lotus Esprit? A BMW perhaps?
No, it was a white Ford Explorer Limited.
It seems to me that 007 is about as likely to drive this car as, say, a station wagon, or a Volkswagen Beetle.
If Bond were going to drive an SUV, it would be a military vehicle, not something bordering on a minivan.
My Quote Collection
Here is my
quote collection. I am proud of my quote collection, not least because some quotes that (I am fairly confident) I was the first to cite, to isolate, to collect, to Bartlett-ize, have gone on to the next stage and been cited again by someone else.
To be specific,
Todd Murphey borrowed my quote of Brian Armstrong-Helouvry to use in his Ph.D. thesis. Science fiction writer
Geoffrey Landis borrowed one of my Gene Wolfe quotes for his own quote collection. And a few years ago mathematician
Andrew Lewis borrowed my quote of Avram Davidson for his collection, although I'm not sure if it's still in there.
