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Last night after our band gig, we were stuck in the hotel lobby due to false fire alarms (preventing us from going to our rooms) and a torrential storm (preventing us from going out). No cards to be found at the concierge, so Todd tells us about a game called Racetrack that is played on graph paper.
"I just happen to have some graph paper!" I said, excitedly, as I whipped out my Field Notes.
"No way!" Todd laughed. "I discovered this game while looking at the Field Notes website!"
"Perfect," I replied, happy to see my Field Notes save the day again.
Todd, Erin, and I sat in the lobby contentedly for the duration of the storm, and quite past the end of of the fire alarms, challenged and entertained by this 7" x 5.5" spread on the coffee table.
A big HURRAH for Field Notes Brand!
This motel is just on the edge of the ghost town of Galata, MT--it sits just off highway 2. It is still open which is quite commendable along this desolate, empty stretch of highway. I wonder who stays here? Every time I have been by it there are never any cars there. The sign kind of scares me off.
Galata, Montana is almost a complete ghost town. There really are no more businesses open. Only a few homes are still lived in. This town has an interesting history and there are so many abandoned buildings that I would love to know the story behind.
Here is a video from when I drove through this great ghost town:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0R55_f-ndA
"Galata, east of Shelby, is near Willow Creek, one of the streams that flows into the reservoir created by Tiber Dam. It was a trading point and cattle shipping station on the Great Northern’s High Line. In 1901 David R. McGinnis, first immigration agent of the Great Northern Railroad, was so impressed by the beauty of the spot that he filed a claim for the land near the railroad where it crossed dry Galata Creek. McGinnis hired a surveyor to lay out a town and the following year brought carpenters and lumber from Kalispell to build a two-room house.
Cattlemen from the Marias River ranges brought their cattle to Galata for shipment to eastern markets. On cold winter days they were glad to have the protection of the two little rooms in the only building in “town.” The house burned down in 1904, but in 1905 McGinnis began rebuilding Galata. He built a two-room real estate office and an eight-room hotel, and eventually induced a storekeeper to set up shop in one of the rooms of the real estate office. Ranches would drive in with a chuckwagon and load up on $500—sometimes even $1,000—worth of supplies, pay in cash and return home for the long winter. After a few years, Galata’s only merchant closed shop and the hotel was abandoned; McGinnis gave up his dream of a town and moved to Kalispell.
One day he was surprised to receive a check in the mail. It was marked “back rent,” and was from a cowhand who had moved into the deserted Galata store and had done a good business with dryland farmers who were then settling on the old-time open range. By 1910 Galata had four lumberyards and five store. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
Near Galata, residents and visitors can enjoy one of the most versatile recreational areas in Montana, Tiber Dam-Lake Elwell. The lake provides excellent year-round angling for Walleye, Northern and Sauger Pike, native trout, Ling, Perch and others. Some may want to try their hand at bow fishing for carp that often exceed 20 pounds. For boaters and swimmers the area boasts over 50 miles of shoreline, a marina, and four well-maintained boat ramps located strategically around the lake. There are also numerous campground areas.
While you're at Tiber you'll observe spectacular windblown sandstone formations, Indian rings, and one of the largest earthen dikes in the world! The area surrounding Tiber contains excellent hunting, and a unique birdwatching area is located along the Marias River below Tiber Dam." -Montana's Russell Country Website
This is a great article, just scroll town to the one titled “Caught between two worlds, one dead, the other struggling to be born.”
www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/fieldnotes/C77/
This is a link to a neat photo taken near Galata many, many years ago:
One of the items on my to-do list at work for next week. Tear down and rebuild a vSphere deployment for Winter 2013.
UNICEF Ambassador Lucy Liu visited the Rawanda Genocied Memorial yesterday with Luciano Calestini, UNICEF emergency specialist. She blogged about the experience here: fieldnotes.unicefusa.org/2007/06/in_the_field_lucy_liu_re... (credit Lisa Szarkowski).
Outgoing notes include:
The Daily Dozen Checklist from Dr. Michael Greger's "How Not To Die" for Veganuary
Hostile Architecture
William Blake's Proverbs of Hell
The Death of Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hot Rods of TWO-LANE BLACKTOP
Academic citations of my work
Etymology of the word “robot”
Grammar Rules that are becoming obsolete
The Secret Codes of the London Underground
Stanley Green, the Protein Man
Hirokazu Kore-eda's THE TRUTH
Bouleversement; Dead Man's Hand; Bricolage; Palimpsest
Voltaire; Rainer Maria Rilke; Naguib Mahfouz; Jonathan Miller; John Dewey; Marcus Aurelius; Bong Joon-Ho
Always glad to get more of these nifty Field Notes notebooks.
Isashi, Kagoshima, Japan.
June 28, 2014.
フィルドノートという会社のメモ帳が届いた。
便利なサイズ、デザインも素晴らしい。
届くと嬉しい気分だ。
伊佐市、鹿児島県、日本。
平成26年6月28日。
In this notebook I kept a daily record of my son's 6 weeks in the NICU. What I wrote was mostly banal meal tracking, but it was comforting to keep good notes, especially during those early days when I didn't know what way was up.
My Field Notes Notebook was looking pretty ratty. The cover was falling appart, hence the tape on the spine. Thanks to an internet friend from Brooklyn, NY, it now looks more presentable. The cover is a Day|Runner Life Tracker Modular Binding System. It holds three Field Notes styled notebooks within the cover with rubber elastic bands. Field Notes fit in it perfectly and I suspect my doane paper notebooks will too! The binding system came with rulled and blank paper notebooks.
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直接インデックスカードにプリントアウト出来る様、レイアウトをPoICに最適化。
そのまま記録カードとして利用出来ます。
何か良いネーミングがありましたら是非教えて下さいませ。。
Aki's PoICalc 1.0
xls file is available from next-action.net/2008/11/11/poicalc10/.
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