California Internship – Week 2

Happy Friday.

Last weekend, and most of this week actually, feels so long ago already. Tonight I went to see the Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian with some fellow interns and assorted co-workers. I’m a little underwhelmed. The theatre itself was a little low-budget and the ceiling lights remained aglow throughout the film, and the movie was kind of predictable and awkward in its pacing. I really need to find time to read the entire series though because I’m very interested in the ideas of the stories. Plus I want to know how it ends. It’s hard to watch the movie and not know what happens unlike Harry Potter chapters.

Okay, so the week in review. Well – first off was my hiking day in Big Sur last weekend with Naomi. She picked me up in the morning and we took off down highway 1 (again!) this time a bit further south to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park where we did the Ewoldsen hike.

I’m totally in love with the forests of Big Sur. Also, this blue jay was very insistent that I take his picture and kept coming closer and closer as I snapped away. This is with hardly any zoom – little blue show-off:

There are amazingly large trees, beautifully maintained paths and views like this:

Here is Naomi explaining why there were so many burned and charred trees:

Then there was the Waterfall. While it was close enough to the parking lot to be kind of over populated with tourists – it was still a sight to behold. I was mesmerized by the waterfall and the waves smashing against the rocks. It reminded me of a set from the movie version of Lord of th Flies. Funny thing is, there were all these signs:

These were posted every few feet – as though the view was so pretty that people were going to throw themselves down the cliff. Well, then I looked over and saw two people trying to do it – even with the signs! Fortunately they gave up after scrambling down a couple of meters of crumbly cliff side. The woman was wearing Uggs! Those are not hiking boots, and certainly won’t help with what was essentially rock climbing. As they pointed out, and we had noticed, there were distinctly human footprints on the beach below – I imagine that there’s a little sea creature down there with a foot on a stick making footprints to try and lure the tasty humans…

Here’s a small video of the view in motion:

Final notes for the week – some office dog shenanigans and Bike to Work Day.

Julie has been bringing the dog she’s caring for to work and it plays with Karen’s dog Samantha until it’s so tired that it must throw itself upon on of the many bean bag chairs and cushions in the downstairs common lounge. At that point the two dogs just play with their heads, determined pups they are.

Here they are when still able to stand on all four feet:

Zuri (the whippet) is incredibly fast as you can see by her dash:

Maybe next time I will get a picture of her when she’s not moving.

On Bike to Work week about 14 or so Mozillans took on the challenge. I’ve been biking to work every day and it’s only 10 minutes each way for me…no big deal. Several people biked in from San Francisco on Thursday which takes about 3 hours! Here they are in their Firefox jerseys. I hope to have one someday but that will require that bike jerseys are made by a company that doesn’t predispose itself to the physiques of slim europeans. Too bad, cause they sure are pretty shirts: