Smoky Hiker -- Yep, that's one of the best things about living so close to Glacier ... it's easy to plan a quick impulse trip up there. I hope there's a lot of snowmelt over the next week, though!
At a high-end electronics shop today, I overheard an earnest young salesman explaining all about computers to a new customer: "You can use three different operating systems on a computer -- Apple, HP, and Google."
Installed the Lion upgrade on my iMac this morning, though not without difficulty ... the download crashed the App Store application! My initial thoughts are mixed. Safari seems much improved, and the left/right swipe action there is brilliant. I'm already used to the "reversed" scrolling, but I re-enabled the always-visible scroll bar ... it makes no sense at all to have that disappear on a desktop device. Launchpad is useless for anyone with more than a handful of apps, and since I don't use Spaces I don't really like the new look of Mission Control. Mail seems more solid, though I went back to the classic UI there. There's a lot of serious ugliness in the UI, especially for a design-conscious company like Apple. The Finder and Mail went way too far towards the monochrome look ... the font choices, spacing, and graphic layout all suck. On the other hand, Apple went too far in the other direction in the Address Book and iCal, sacrificing usability and
So for those of you who haven't heard, the engine on my poor old Toyota finally gave up the ghost last week. This is the car I got to replace it -- a new Subaru XV Crosstrek. And of course I had to get it in orange. :)
Great photo! Where was this taken?
ReplyDeleteThanks! This is just a couple miles outside of Bozeman.
ReplyDeleteI'm heading up to Glacier again in a few days, though ... a night at Sperry Chalet. :)
Mark you always take such great photos!
ReplyDeleteAhh, so you got in on the early opening? Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marko Russell ! (And remind me to show you some other photos sometime ... :-)
ReplyDeleteSmoky Hiker -- Yep, that's one of the best things about living so close to Glacier ... it's easy to plan a quick impulse trip up there. I hope there's a lot of snowmelt over the next week, though!
ReplyDeletesounds good Mark Hufstetler or share them on here direct heheheeh
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