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The weather was freaking incredible this weekend. For a few weeks every year, the weather hits damn near perfect in this part of the world. The hills are still green and wildflowers start blooming everywhere. Now is the time, and I spent most of the weekend outside taking advantage of it. The lawn is mowed, the garden is ready to go, and some plants have been planted. I went for two hikes this weekend, with today's the most spectacular: a four mile trail at Point Reyes with some great views. We saw deer, elk, snakes, rabbits, giant slugs, ducks, cranes, and only four other hikers on the trail. I took pictures.

it's later than you think it is.

I recently switched from Twinings tea to PG Tips. Makes the morning stand up a little straighter.

Chocolate Milk

Oh God! It's great!
to have someone fix you
chocolate milk
and to appreciate their doing it!
Even as they stir it
in the kitchen
your mouth is going crazy
for the chocolate milk!
The wonderful chocolate milk!

- Ron Padgett, New & Selected Poems

I don't like chocolate milk. But I like this poem.

Just the promise of stock options used to be as good as a paycheck. But things are different now, as Primedia is finding out in two lawsuits. [via OCR] The End of Free on the Web should also refer to the end of free work.

Great tutorial at Digital Web Magazine on preparing digital photography for the web. I use slightly different methods to achieve some of the same results, but I still feel like Mr. Voss was looking over my shoulder when he wrote the article.

This site and my email were down all weekend. If you sent me a message, it was probably lost in the mists of Internetland.

“I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats COULD grin.” - Alice

Alfred E. Newman, Branded. [via Tom Tomorrow] (click 'Go directly to story' if you get a giant Flash ad.)