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Monday, May 11, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY

The Meeting of the Rivers, Fort Defiance Park, Cairo IL, May 4, 2009
The Meeting of the Rivers, Fort Defiance Park, Cairo IL, May 4, 2009

Cell phone and internet access is terrible here on the farm

I've been moving around the place, parking in various spots, trying to find one where I can make a tolerable connection to the internet with my Verizon Broadband service. I use a Wilson amplifier to boost the signal to my modem but even that has proven inadequate here this year. I finally found a spot tonight that is working - at least for the moment.

Night camp

On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Ask What Surprised Them

I was afraid of flying for a long time and could only travel vicariously. When friends came back from faraway places, it wasn't just out of politeness that I asked what they saw. I really wanted to know. And I found the best way to get information out of them was to ask what surprised them. How was the place different from what they expected? This is an extremely useful question. You can ask it of the most unobservant people, and it will extract information they didn't even know they were recording.

The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004

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