May 2009 – Margin Notes

The Week’s Twitters (2009-05-30)

Hail, thunderstorms, bright sun. All at once. Just another day on the Mogollon Rim. #
Scratching my head over the hiker who just passed through Bird Camp — with six goats, laden with saddle bags. #

Enjoying not being in the woods for a change, but not minding the thought of going back tomorrow. #
Standing on a corner near Winslow, Arizona. #
The internet’s grip on my mind seems to be lessening after almost one month of tent living in the Coconino National Forest. #

Finalizing the details of my Ponzi scheme. #
Local weather forecast: hot, dry, on fire. #
Found a robin’s egg in a nest box in the meadow today. Pretty, but it would take a lot of them to make an omelet. #

The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. http://tinyurl.com/23ovg #
In Flagstaff, the sun feels like it is out to get you. No tall buildings + the only mountains are north of the city = no escaping the rays. #
Can someone tell me what a “go to market partner” is? #
Flagstaff: the part built 100 years ago is great, the rest, not so much. And there’s a lot of the rest. #
Land of the free: Montana bans red-light cameras statewide. http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/05/05/bnews/br46.txt #
Flagstaff. Working in the Rendezvous coffee shop in the Monte Vista hotel. Just reserved the Bob Hope suite for later in the month. #
Sipping tea in the meadow just now, I felt more strongly than ever that we might be able to civilize these savages yet. Arizonians, I mean. #
Nonplussed by the flaccid national response to swine flu, Bird Camp is instituting a strict new order. Skulls on sticks, etc. #

Taking the grill they found in the woods seemed to me an obvious way to anger some band of vicious redneck cannibals. #
Using wireless internet in the empty dusty parking lot of the Happy Jack Lodge. About to pay $3 for the first shower since Saturday morning. #
Basking in the glow of successfully recording a cell-phone interview on the Mogollon Rim. http://tinyurl.com/csyse8 #
Basking in the glow of successfully recording a cell-phone interview on the Mogollon Rim. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_Rim #
Swineflu health map: http://healthmap.org/swineflu #
Don’t call it “collections.” It’s “receivables management.” Also, “search and destroy” will now be referred to as “sweep and clear.” Got it? #
Guy with O2 tank at next table is watching an on-line video about “a fantastic moneymaking opportunity.” #
Some of the news coverage of swine flu might want to include the symptoms. So we can all start imagining we have it. #
Sleeping on the ground for a couple of days really makes you appreciate an old camper mattress. #
What is this thing called Bird Camp? All is revealed: https://marginnotes.net/about-bird-camp/ #