Get Thee Hence, Snow Devil

Sometime making new friends is instantaneous, with others it is sort of  a slow acquisitional process. Some friendship making is very deliberate. While "manning" the ReVinylize booth at the State Fair I met a girl who worked for another green company. We enjoyed chatting during the event. Then we ran into each other a month later at another green event and then we REALLY chatted. Getting right down into the details of our personal lives. We really liked each other, but since our circles only loosely overlapped, it was a friendship that would have to be deliberately cultivated. I will have to admit, she has done more to cultivate it, though I have good intentions.  She invited me to a solstice party, which had really good food and really awesome co-hosts. And then yesterday I went snowshoeing with her a a few of her friends (who also had been at the solstice party).


That is a long background story for hiking with some relative strangers. We went snowshoeing up  Iron Mountain in Park City. We started and ended our hike in a blizzard, but when we reached the crest the skies were blue and we had a beautiful view of Park City. While at the crest I saw a snow devil, the first I have ever seen. It was different than most dust devils. It had a wider base, and the snowy tendrils twisting up looked like a coronet. I think it was my favorite part of the hike. p.s. this is not a picture of MY snow devil. Mine was much more beautiful and deliberate. I found this image online, there is not a wide selection of images of snow devils. They are tentative things.

01 11 11

Binary dates were most optimal in the years 1000, 1010, and 1011, but we have to make do with what we have now, and just drop the 20 in our 2011. We have a few more binary dates this year 10 01 11, 10 10 11, 10 10, 11, 11 01 11, 11 11 11. 

Today’s date translates to .

I am very disappointed to find that the RUSH song 'The Body Electric', which uses the code 1001001 (which is supposed to mean SOS), is not acurate, SOS is actually coded as 01010011 01001111 01010011. Well, had I been a humanoid escaping and trying to get out a distress signal, I would have done poorly to depend on the lyrics of RUSH. I think RUSH should have been accurate, even if it destroyed the artistic cadance of the song.

A binary code is a system of representing text by the use of the binary number system's two-binary digits 0 and 1. This is accomplished by assigning a bit string to each particular symbol or instruction. Binary Code was first introduced by the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the 17th century. Leibniz was trying to find a system that converts verbal statements into a mathematical one. After his ideas were ignored, he came across a classic Chinese text called ‘I Ching’ or ‘Book of Changes’, which used a type of binary code. The book had confirmed his theory that life could be simplified or reduced down to a series of straightforward propositions. He created a system consisting of rows of zeros and ones.*

I like codes. I am able to write backwards and it is fun to send letters in that code. They are easily decoded by holding the letter up to the light or by using a mirror.

a binary decoder http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/

01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101100 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101111 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100100 00101110 00100000 01110011 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 01100100 01100100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110010 00101100 00100000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101001 01101100 00101100 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101100 01110100 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110011 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01110111 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101111 01110000 00101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 00100000

Binary takes up a lot of room, like 50X more than just using the letters.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system

The Eventful Year

Things that have occurred in my life in the past year. 2010 was an EVENTFUL year!

-Participated in a post card exchange
-Visited Spiral Jetty on The Great Salt Lake
-Was elected to be on the Utah Community Forestry Council Board
-Didn’t get a job I thought I wanted
-Was later offered that job and turned it down
-Stopped being a letter press printer as an occupation
-Opened my own boutique
-Was appointed to be Sustainability Director for AIGA – Salt Lake City
-Filmed as the subject of an episode of The Generations Project - TV Show
-Traveled to Salem, Massachusetts
-Traveled to Sterling, Alberta Canada
-Found that life is much more complicated than expected
-Moved ½ a block away
-Traveled to Amsterdam.... AMAZING!!
-Was filmed as part of a TV show as a local food expert
-Made new friends in the local food scene
-Recognized abundance more than ever around me
-Closed my boutique to improve my quality of life
-Found that ‘Trees are the answer” is truer all the time
-Learning to skate ski
-Learning yoga
-Went on a retreat to a monastery