Okay, so the pictures from the Fourth of July spent on the top of Mt Rose are up, the pictures from the road trip with Mary up to Glacier National Park are up (i still need to get Mary's pictures scanned) and i will try to get the pictures from Katie and Danny's wedding that i went to (and barely came away from).
The trip of Rose was awesome, we had a good time, and saw a ton of fireworks. And then the Simich Hypothermia gene kicked in, Mr. Simich started panicking about how it was getting too cold and we needed to get back down, and pete put on his poncho to stay warm. The rest of us felt great though.
The trip to Glacier was awesome. I might be the best national park i have been to yet, almost better than Yosemited. And i am in love with Montana, Northern Idaho, and most of Washington, but that is because i saw them in the nice part of the year.
The wedding was great fun for me, up until the point that it wasn't fun anymore and mary's couch got all dirty. Two beers, a screw driver, a jack and coke, then we got the bottle of wine at the table (and the two other tables nearby that didn't seem like they wanted theirs) then the champagne, then back to the wine. I don't think i am going to do that again for awhile.
Also, i will try to remember to put the pictures from the trip to Annapolis up, but i have to go get them from my house first and figure out which cd without a label in my milk crate of cd's without labels has them on there.
I just can't bring myself to work on our population models that i am trying to finish so i have decided to rant about the INDUCE act. First head over to www.eff.org and fire off some emails or call your reps to get them to stop. So you may be wondering what the big deal is, sure, if a company writes software that helps people commit copyright violations shouldn't they be responsible, because the people obviously couldn't commit copyright violations without these new tools. I can't figure out why all the hardcore right wing types aren't going crazy. They seem to freak out when people try to pin gun deaths on the gun manufactures. Remember the movie Shane everyone, "A gun is a tool, no better or worse than person using it." So, could some explain to me why in one case the person using the tool should be punished, but in the other it is the person who made the tool. Oh yeah, i remember, always follow the money. Who has the money, the gun industry and the RIAA. And where is it going, straight to the top, our fearless leaders. It isn't even funny anymore.
I guess i shouldn't care though, it isn't like their is much common sense left. I am still confused how "Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for LIMITED TIMES to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" means 90 years and the life of the author. And if anyone cares, check out this article, Jefferson spells it out pretty clearly i think.
Something funny, Pete called me at like 1 in the morning to let me know that he, Petar D. Simich, met the one, the only Chris something or other, the Bass Player (or maybe drummer, it was pretty late and i don't feel like looking it up) of Jawbreaker at a Jawbreaker tribute show or something. He said he got to chat with him for like 5 or 10 minutes before he went to do some real interview. Pete was super excited, and all i have to say is good for him. I wish i could meet some of my heroes. (i am not really sure who they would be, but i still wish i could meet one or two of them, that last line was me just trying to be dramatic)