Tuesday, May 20, 2008

To the Anthropologists!


Here's a picture of me today, just for the record. Since this blog, any blog really, is a sort of time capsule that one day will be trod by very bored anthropologists, I thought I might make their life a little easier. To you future scientists, this is what it's like when you've moved out of your office here in the early 2000's, after a series of smallerizing events in a start up. 

Whatever you have there in the future, I hope it includes the same ability we have today to bounce back after personal economic ruin. In fact it is a poverty of luck. But as you can see, this placid day in Grass Valley, CA in May, there is no global warming, or cooling. Just global downsizing in my little world. I now work from the deck whenever possible. Soon it will be too hot again. Followed by too cold. Somewhere in there, all that really matters, is my whole work world fits in my backpack.

Hope this one little puzzle piece helps you to know how it was today, at least in this little wooded place. (FWIW, just across the canyon, I'm hearing large earth moving equipment. I think some rich bastard just bought the top of the hill over there and is carving a swath out of the forest so he can see the creek.) When you read this, out there 100 years from now, Google "Little Way" and see if you can see any trees. Probably just concrete across the creek.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

There better be trees!!!!!
Love the new office by the way. Enjoy.

Anonymous said...

Is this an anonymous anthropologist? I like it too, I wish I could work from the deck more often...

It's all good until someone wants to send a fax.

Anonymous said...

More like an anonymous tree lover who would LOVE to have an office outside in the woods. Easy to hide in the woods!

Anonymous said...

Ok, all the anthropologists have read this blog and even they are ready for a new one!