Microsoft Commercials...

Tired, so I'm watching a little TV and being bombarded by advertisements. Always likely to put me in a mood.

Anyhow. I'm really being struck by the Microsoft "I'm a PC" advertisements.

Let me see if I understand the premise... So... Microsoft finds some inbred rube and says, "We'll buy you a computer if you jabber inanely for a few minutes on camera"

... And somehow, bribing someone with a free computer equates to their OS not being a flaming pile of dog shit?

... I'm kinda confused. I mean... If you have to bribe someone to do your advertising, it seems like your product is full of fail.

But perhaps I'm merely basing my opinion on having used Windows. C'mon Microsoft, give me two grand to buy a computer. I'll get something way better than a stinking piece of crap Dell Boat Anchor and it won't even be a single-purpose machine. I'll be able to use it for just about anything.

Caving was a wash

Well. We went and checked out the area where that cave was. The trails all went to 100+ foot drops down crumbly dirt and rock. Definitely not my idea of a good time. The one way I found that we might have been able to walk down was choked with very healthy poison oak, so I decided against that one as well.

So we went to the beach at Scott Creek and hiked up. Tide was very low. It was teh awesome. We even got to poke around inside the one cave that I've usually had to climb over. It's only about three meters deep but still pretty neat.

Sadly though, a bit further up the way, one of the other narrow points in the beach had washed away and even at low tide it had a swift and deep water channel going right up to the cliff face so about 2/3rd of beach was totally inaccessible, greatly abbreviating our hike. (Ended up being only about a mile and a half each way)

Sadly enough, this is also where we used to find most of the abalone. Guess I'll have to take an inflatable raft next time.

Despite this, we found lots of really excellent shells. Not much abalone but a few pieces I can work. Lots and lots of pretty good snail shells though, at least six different types; one I'd never seen before so woot.

Earlier I was fiddling around with doing some scrimshaw work on one of them. I'll have to post some photos later.