Confidential - nature of surveillance

The catch 22 nes in Surveillance act criticized but can it be fought reminds me of the time when I couldnt locate the people on my group ticket and the airline receptionist wont share with me the details if they checked in or not as it is 'confidential'.

Statute of limitations.
Foreign corrupt practices act.  what they say about reach of the law
False Claims Act

Floating fancies

When I went to Nainital, I liked climbing a mound just like Susan Orleans was enchated at a shooting party, that I thought I might have been a Sherpa in my previous life.
In Kulu Manali at a resort, giving a go at archery, I recalled all Dronacharya lessons to Arjuna. i thought I was cut out for it.

Perspective

In Soul Surfer, Carrie Underwood shows a bunch of students, a close up of eyes of fly and a walnut and tells them about how unrecognizable things can become if you look at them too close.
And some are understood only through intense viewing through a microscope. A thing is many depending upon where you look at it from.
The colours of a garlic

When microscopic RBCs are synthesised into our world.


At parties, I see a gathering of people cant get through even to 1/4 of the food made. May be there is some logic to Antoinette's line of 'Let them eat cakes'.

Today

Cramming info in appealing visuals.

Zip line at State fair.

A picture without frame. Photo button.

A couple followed by a child knocked our door. The lady held a bible in her hands. I knew what would follow next.
"We have a religion".
And the next sequence was to the effect of ending the conversation.
Now, can you "have" a religion?


Risks in space. Such charts and scales are done for post mortems of project.

Changing Mill Avenue

Its been  while since I have been to Mill Avenue. A spate of eateries have opened up. Handlebar Tempe with its links to La Bocca.

Links

On a birthday cake, I saw
Growing old is mandatory, Growing up is optional - Chili Davis.
When I came across “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”  in Everest '82.  The logo in the movie reminded me so much of Toblerone.

Theres a reference to pale horse in the movie.

Why do we iron our clothes lets just wear wrinkled ones. Another reason - To prevent scabs and scorches on arms.

A difference a clear day makes

Revisiting places I find something that I have missed the time before. This time I realised that Mt Humphrey's is visible from Verde Valley.

Recently a colleague surprised us with the fact that Colorado River is the left border of Arizona. He told us a quip too.
The river changes its route now and then. A lady whose house moved to CA was asked if she wanted to be in CA or AZ.
Lady: CA. Its cooler there.

On Antelope canyon boating ride, I found about how Antelope canyon was filled with water due to back fill from damming the Colorado river with Lake Powell dam. At the dam I found a red lizard. It reminded me of how we returned from hostel, all clothes colored red from the sand around. Lees Ferry as a book title in the information center seemed very familiar.

A 6 hr boat tour includes a view of Rainbow Bridge National Monument.

On the drive to page, we thought we saw a trio of fountains welling up. when close we found them to be smoking stacks of Navajo Generating station. It gets its coal supply from Kayenta Mines.

The road close to Zion National Park is natural with its dark red colour.

Canyons and Layers. the bottom of one is top of another. Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon.
The shuttle at Zion Canyon explained the history very well. All the pioneers who recognised the wilderness.

Meeting love suffices for a day.

ABC does not live here

How are you at checking your mail? Is it a chore that you have to do so as not to collect it at the post office.? Like laundry, there is an acceptable limit of procrastination. Not a tough task when you think about it. But it needs to get done.
In that precious mail space, where my mail can collect in comes mail addressed to a new addressee. I called the rental office to let them know and check if another resident of theirs swapped the building number. A couple of days in, we know have become a mail service sending it to the office with manager's prompt 'Oh, I'll take care of it for you right away' which means plan another visit when I'm not here.
When I saw a A4 size packet not for me, I fueled myself up for a duel and started in a simulated tone :
Me: Its the third time I'm here about this. I keep getting this ABC's mail in my mailbox.
Asst: Honey I dont deliver the mail
(I totally had to switch my tone)
We were trying to figure why this is happening.
Asst: Does your mailbox have names in it
Me: Only mine
Defending why the mail needs to be routed if its in their channels
Asst: I'm going to return it to sender
I went to the mail box and there I see my name card space split into half with a black line with ABC below it.  
How did this happen unbeknownst to me. But we forget the Postman/woman with the super key who can write any name they like and you ferret the unwanted mail. In news isUndeliverable mail experiment helps us understand why some governments work well and others fail. Unbeknownst to me am I part of an experiment?

Things to do:
ABC

Conversation - new thread

In a meeting, a colleague started a new thread away from the tech stuff, when we were laughing, he said he knew why we were laughing and told us of his losses in fantasy football.

I saw a paper with a photo on the back of a van pasted on a side and flapping on the other. It was a found ad of a dog. The first of its kind that I have seen. I have always seen lost.
Talking of art on the go, I had learnt of Ambigrams from my friend. I spotted 'Satan' as an ambigram on he back of a van.

Time travel

Time is the sea in which all ensues

The memorial had a foundation
Thats known since the last three weks
while the castle
opened to public

Tovrea Castle
The video viewing at the beginning of the trail and the golf cart stops on the mounds on either side of the castle set up the mystery. The trimmed garden and rocks opposite to Robert Frost's 'Mending wall' that will stay where they are and as white.
Most tories have a beginning and an end. Even though this begins as the story of the castle, the families involved in it, get you interested in their metal sheet business in San Francisco, butcher business in Phoenix and the imaginary real estate business that never took off. This story was house to residents who had yarns unrolling in other places like Prescott. the bell at the entrance from the mayorships.
Our docent told us what happened to Alissa Carraro after the castle and how he ended up at Yarnell.
There is a picture showing a clay model of the castle and grottos on both mounds with a waterfall in between them. The story has not ended. the blueprint hasnt been finished.
Tovrea's secrets

Maricopa does not allow home burial.

Forcing perversity on language

Border agent killed by friendly fire. Can fire be ever Friendly? unless it is for your allies.