{"id":12333,"date":"2007-05-01T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/high-plains-drifting.html"},"modified":"2007-05-01T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T11:58:01","slug":"high_plains_drifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/high_plains_drifting\/","title":{"rendered":"High Plains Drifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from the desert, and boy are my arms sandy… <\/em> We gave our friend\/my fellow Photoshop PM Bryan O’Neil Hughes a solid send-off to his single days, I think. Word to the wise : RV+sand = elephant+tar pit; oi vey<\/i>. Sadly, I didn’t manage to see a real live Adobe Photo Shop<\/a> [Via<\/a>].  I did, however, find a great deal on California real estate<\/a> in Trona.  (Hope you like sulfur<\/a>… and breaking your windows just to cut your wrists.)  Ballarat Bob<\/a> was MIA, but we caught up with our friend, the Mayor of Ballarat, along with his even more grizzled (!) dad–keepers of Charlie Manson’s truck & black helicopters; here’s a small gallery<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Their one-room building (famous for $2 cans of Milwaukee’s Best–which will taste good to you<\/em> when it gets hot enough) also features a photo I really love<\/a>.  I don’t know a thing about its subject or its history, and I always choose not to ask.  Sometimes it’s good to savor a little mystery. <\/p>\n

In a photographic vein, and starting with Death Valley: <\/p>\n