NationStates Jolt Archive

So, I was driving through San Jose the other day, as I often do. (and never visit Gymoor, but that really has nothing to do with anything...) If you drive on 880/17 through San Jose you pass the San Jose Airport, which has a runway next to the freeway. Which means that usually as you pass by a big ass jet will come crazy close the freeway. Like, I could get in a lot of trouble for hucking a rock straight up close.

And as the bigass jet passed by I found myself thinking, "I wonder if I'll have enough time to go by Dino's for a Chicken Parmesan sandwich?" I've become used to that, didn't care.

Beaches, I've found as well, I don't notice as well. My town is all beach, I drive by ocean more often than not. When driving a crew around on my last gig a stretch of beach didn't occour to me as a place to stop until they noticed a beach stop off of Hwy 1.

The Golden Gate Bridge to me is kind of a hassle, mostly because it would take me to Marin and there is so very little reason for me to go there. And the toll is expensive. This isn't such a good example, though. People in cities are generally not drawn to the tourist locations...But a big jet buzzing a freeway, that's not on a brocure...

The only part you really have to pay attention to

What spectacular thing that exists around you have you become so acustom to that you don't even notice anymore?

I generally fail to notice just about everything, although driving back to L.A. from Reno on 395 was pretty cool.. I even got a picture of myself "disappearing" into Mono Lake (after some haze effects on Photoshop).. which is pretty cool if you've ever seen "High Plains Drifter," which was filmed there.. :)

Giant bodies of water (Great Lakes, now Baltic), sandy beaches and dunes(random Germans in my town every summer saying, "Best beach in world #11!"), snow (Aussies really dig that stuff), forest (I dunno, if your from the Sahara you don't see them too much), lighthouses (people come to see that stuff), and deer, moose, elk, reindeer, and other wild life (I shoot those critters, I don't photograph it and put it on a kalender or a postcard).

Oh, Mid-Western US and Scandinavia, where I live....

Giant bodies of water (Great Lakes, now Baltic), sandy beaches and dunes(random Germans in my town every summer saying, "Best beach in world #11!"), snow (Aussies really dig that stuff), forest (I dunno, if your from the Sahara you don't see them too much), lighthouses (people come to see that stuff), and deer, moose, elk, reindeer, and other wild life (I shoot those critters, I don't photograph it and put it on a kalender or a postcard).

Oh, Mid-Western US and Scandinavia, where I live....
I live literally amongst the redwoods. (I live in the Santa Cruz mountains, beach to mountain forest. Love it.) I've become so complacent with that that it didn't even occour to me until you mentioned the woods.

In school deer wander around everywhere. I had a roommates parents trying to point something out to me and couldn't figure it out until I realized that they where trying to tell me about the deer. It didn't occour to me that they would want to show me a deer, they where everywhere...

I don't live around anything that's visually spectacular in the way that the redwoods are, or that the beach along Highway 1 is. I did get that way when I was in grad school at the University of Arkansas, which is in the Boston mountains--it's a beautiful campus, with great views, and I got to where I never saw them after a while.

The closest thing I can claim right now is that I've become a bit less of a girl-watcher now that I live in Florida and there are scantily clad ladies everywhere. I'm a a little sad now that I think about it.

I don't live around anything that's visually spectacular in the way that the redwoods are, or that the beach along Highway 1 is. I did get that way when I was in grad school at the University of Arkansas, which is in the Boston mountains--it's a beautiful campus, with great views, and I got to where I never saw them after a while.

The closest thing I can claim right now is that I've become a bit less of a girl-watcher now that I live in Florida and there are scantily clad ladies everywhere. I'm a a little sad now that I think about it.
Heh, I know that one. I had a bit of a thing for hippie chicks before I moved to Santa Cruz and now it's a bit watered down, (cynical stereotype alert) so many rich college girls rebeling against their upbringing that there actually is too much to choose from.

Dismisive or sour grapes that I haven't hooked up with any of them yet?


Don't answer that...

Don't you work on a campus that borders on an exotic animal reserve? I think that would qualify.

I usually drive by about four or five horse farms when I drive home from the university, since I live in Kentucky. On good weather and the right time of the year, you can see the colts learning to run and feed with the other horses.

Also, on a side road I use sometimes, there is a minature donkey farm that I used to notice a lot, but now is just part of the scenery. What makes it really funny to watch as you drive by is the sign that gives its name, the "Little Ass Farm", along with a statue of a small donkey.

Heh, I know that one. I had a bit of a thing for hippie chicks before I moved to Santa Cruz and now it's a bit watered down, (cynical stereotype alert) so many rich college girls rebeling against their upbringing that there actually is too much to choose from.

Dismisive or sour grapes that I haven't hooked up with any of them yet?


Don't answer that...

Don't you work on a campus that borders on an exotic animal reserve? I think that would qualify.
Only if by "exotic animals" you mean rich women who spend all day getting pampered. They're best known as "Boca bitches," especially to the people in the service industry who have to deal with them everyday. There's a protected area for the burrow owl close by, and there are a couple of ponds on campus that are the homes for some cool birds--anhingas, herons, cranes and ibis. I guess I have gotten complacent about that.

Don't you work on a campus that borders on an exotic animal reserve? I think that would qualify.

Every animal here can and will kill you if it gets the chance, and even docile house cats seemingly mutate into monsters. (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/09/0423202&tid=214&tid=14) (The "Panther" was later proved to be nothing more than an incredibly massive cat...) European wasps in Europe are relatively harmless, but over here, the climate turns them hyper-aggressive, and they have been known to kill and strip the flesh from horses. But hey. We're used to it.

Does that count?

Only if by "exotic animals" you mean rich women who spend all day getting pampered. They're best known as "Boca bitches," especially to the people in the service industry who have to deal with them everyday. There's a protected area for the burrow owl close by, and there are a couple of ponds on campus that are the homes for some cool birds--anhingas, herons, cranes and ibis. I guess I have gotten complacent about that.
Yeah, it was the birds I was thinking of. The Boca's sound pretty damned irratating. Every September and June it's amusing to watch the college parents come into town and embarass their children in front of the hippies and slackers.

I keep hearing that New Zealand is an amazingly beautiful country, but I'm just sorta meh to it all.

Every animal here can and will kill you if it gets the chance, and even docile house cats seemingly mutate into monsters. (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/09/0423202&tid=214&tid=14) (The "Panther" was later proved to be nothing more than an incredibly massive cat...) European wasps in Europe are relatively harmless, but over here, the climate turns them hyper-aggressive, and they have been known to kill and strip the flesh from horses. But hey. We're used to it.

Does that count?
And yet one frog and the whole system gets screwed.

Yeah, certainly counts-as I imagine everything in Australia counts because that place is practically another planet. At least to me. Everything there is like a bizarro version of anything anywhere else. The only things that can kill me out here are mountain lions who don't like human flesh, sharks that can't kill me if I don't meet them halfway and bigfoot. I'm not worried about bigfoot...

I keep hearing that New Zealand is an amazingly beautiful country, but I'm just sorta meh to it all.
What I just said goes for New Zealand, too. Sure looks good, but then you're not likely to send out pictures of "New Zealand's Crap Holes"...

you're not likely to send out pictures of "New Zealand's Crap Holes"...


Actually photo's of auckland (especially the sky tower and harbour bridge) are quite common..

And yet one frog and the whole system gets screwed.

lol. They (cane toads) are just an added thing-that-can-kill-you. I'd say they compliment it perfectly. Well, you'll probably be right if you don't eat them, but eh....

Yeah, certainly counts-as I imagine everything in Australia counts because that place is practically another planet. At least to me. Everything there is like a bizarro version of anything anywhere else. The only things that can kill me out here are mountain lions who don't like human flesh, sharks that can't kill me if I don't meet them halfway and bigfoot. I'm not worried about bigfoot...

Hehe...

Well, i'll leave you with another....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0506_050506_kangaroos.html

We even have an uber-poisonous fish that looks like a fucking rock.

I don't know what idiot decided this would be a good place to colonize.

lol. They (cane toads) are just an added thing-that-can-kill-you. I'd say they compliment it perfectly. Well, you'll probably be right if you don't eat them, but eh....



Hehe...

Well, i'll leave you with another....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0506_050506_kangaroos.html

We even have an uber-poisonous fish that looks like a fucking rock.

I don't know what idiot decided this would be a good place to colonize.

The classic australian animal is still the baby stealing dingo..

The classic australian animal is still the baby stealing dingo..

Heehee.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0506_050506_kangaroos.html


Now that's a hazard!

I don't know what idiot decided this would be a good place to colonize.
I don't think they where hoping you'd survive ;)

I don't think they where hoping you'd survive ;)

Haha, well...the early settlers weren't just convicts, there were plenty of Irish too...oh. Wait, I see your point. :D

Haha, well...the early settlers weren't just convicts, there were plenty of Irish too...oh. Wait, I see your point. :D
When sending them to America didn't work, they decided to up the ante with Australia, and when that didn't work, they wanted to try the moon, but they didn't have the technology yet.