Coyote Crossing

Meetup photos

These are by Jim Stanger, unless otherwise noted. I don’t identify people in photos unless they tell me it’s cool, so that’s why I’m not doing so here. feel free to ID yourself in comments if you like.

I will, however, ID Louie — the blond

Coyote Crossing Meetup report

tl;dr version: we had a great time and we’re doing it again, so be prepared to visit the desert on the weekend of April 21, 2012. We should have warm days and cool nights around then, and very dark skies.

Friday was a bit of a mess. I’d planned

Final Location for the October 14-16 Coyote Crossing Meetup

After a bit of scouting around with Florian Boyd a couple weeks ago, we found a better location for the Coyote Crossing meetup this weekend than the one adjacent to the Cottonwood Entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.

That location is here.

For

Coyote Crossing Meetup Update: Location Found!

Final Update: The actual location is described HERE. If you go to the Cottonwood Springs Road location described in this post, you will not find us there. You may well have a good time, but you won’t have a good time with US.

{UPDATE: As soon as I

Save The Date: Coyote Crossing Meetup October 14-16

Okay, I’ve been talking about doing this for some time but it’s never quite come together. I’m always talking to you about the desert, but I’m never really sharing the desert with you.

It’s time to fix that.

So mark your calendars, Coyote

Don’t buy Walking With Zeke from Amazon

[Updated: Well, that was fast. Guess we scared ‘em. Amazon Agrees to Collect State Tax in California]

I just posted the below-quoted as a review on the Amazon page for my book Walking With Zeke. If you have a moment to click through and mark it

Pulp Fiction: A Screenplay By Orson Scott Card

7. INT. APARTMENT BUILDING HALLWAY - MORNING

Elder Enos: Still I must say; play with matches, you get burned.

Elder Jed: Might you clarify that?

Elder Enos: One simply does not wash the feet of Mosias Wallace’s youngest wife.

Elder Jed: Surely

Spent

Wednesday marked the occasion of my first visit to the Ivanpah Valley since construction began in earnest. I’d been there in October during the Spirit Run to protest the project, but they’d just barely gotten started at that point — putting fences

Rhett S. Daniels, thuggish Internet crackpot

About ten years ago a Usenet crank by the name of Michael Vandeman took offense to a short response I made to something he wrote — I believe my response was, in its entirety, “Ha!” — and wrote complaints to my employers about my conduct online.

Pinto Basin

A few preliminary updates before I start:

Preliminary Update the First: I’m on Google Plus, and the few minutes a day I spend these days conversing online are likely to be spent there rather than in Twitter/Facebook, which have increasingly

Three years of Coyote Crossing

Wow, can it really be three years since I revamped the old blog into this new one here? I missed saying anything about the (octennial) anniversary of Creek Running North, but three years ago this week was when I dragged the laptop across the road

A quick note

A number of Coyote Crossing readers have, over the past few months, been very generous with the PayPal button over to the right there. I would not now have food, shelter, or a way of making a living if not for those donations. I am humbled and

Self-indulgent linkery

Heh. … (continues)

Milestones

Somewhere in the hoopla over this past week’s political assassination I let fly my 10,000th tweet without noticing. At the end of this month this site will have been in operation, under one name or another and with a few hiati, for eight years.

I

Blogular upheaval warning

Just a note to let folks know that over the next days, when I have time here and there, I’ll be making a few changes which will have the effect of blurring this distinction between this blog and the previous one.

They’ll be design changes rather

Now selling signed copies of the Zeke book

Really, it’s kind of embarrassing that it took this long to set something up. But if you’ve been holding out on buying the Zeke book because you really wanted a signed copy, you can now order that signed copy here. It’s 20th century book ordering

Missing the point of BlogWarBot

Yet another poor soul misses the point of BlogWarBot:

BlogWarBot is a pretty lazy app if you ask me, I got it to repeat itself within 3 sentences

The poster seems to be laboring under the misapprehension that BlogWarBot is intended to simulate

Some Itemy Things

ITEM: For a long time I’ve used “crn@faultline.org” as a sort of default email account for the public. Every so often I’ve considered getting rid of it, as the account’s spam percentage builds and the address itself makes less and less sense. (CRN=

Posting so that I can say I did

It’s 1:23 in the A of M. I’ve worked until just now on a website redesign project for a (really wonderful) enviro group, and in about five hours I’m getting up to go for a hike. But the blog, she is cajoling me. And I miss it. The last couple of

30 different ways to say “I’m a big honking jerk” on the Internet

(A non-exhaustive list.)

1. “tl;dr”
2. “Wow, someone certainly has a lot of time on their hands.”
3. “When progressives form firing squads they stand in a circle.”
4. “Whatever happened to personal accountability?”
5. “I know it’s not politically correct to say