The Trail Rye der [the world in a box]

I was thinking of getting a pair of Videogoggles for no reason at all when it dawned on me that it'd be an interesting exercise to design an information
system for trail riding. Inspired by the iPhone Map icon/app it could have an overhead map of trails with options for terrain and foliage. It would rely
on a central broadcast too though: To update conditions in the park. Weather. Animal report. Trail closings and traffic. Would this be enough?

One could wear the goggles like sunglasses to 'check the proverbial data.' The display could be much like today's web and provide blogs and forums on related topics.

Have you ever got lost only to find yourself back where you started?
of course! That is what getting lost is: a big loop. Now I often know
where I am...and you have to get lost to find yourself sometimes.

But there's something fishy about that loop. It's a form of closure.


know: This pic is not me. It's ript from a magazine.

Apparently, you cannot run a successful company cranking out product that nobody wants.
Thirty years of big over-priced cars and trucks that cannot compete with foreign imports!
The revealing fact I like to look at is the Mini Cooper. $ Roughly costing $20,000 these
little guys are proof in the pudding. If they can move these on our shores (it's an import)
then there's something wrong with our largest car producer. Now don't get me wrong, I'm an
American, or at least I live here. I drive a Pontiac my self. A great great car called the
Sunfire - It's a low end entry model. Drive it daily, happy. But I would not think of buying
it new. What American car is there to buy? The Chrysler Crossfire - maybe. Good luck, GM.

Though it may be premature to wax philosophic on that most familiar of Today: The CD, it's not going to stop me from doing some thinking (out loud).
CDs were invented in 1965 but it wasnot until 1982 that they made their appearance. I don't know about you but my first memory is Brothers In Arms on CD in 1985. That's just a memory as they say. Assuming that CDs last at least to 2010, that's 28 solid years of compact sound. Vynil records are only 80 years old (1930)...so what's the oldest CD? I mean the oldest recording? Chuck Berry? Don't think so. I have a Robert Johnson recording from the turn-of-the-century.

So the Bluesmen were making tones before the technology even existed to reproduce it! That's the funny thing about reproduction technology. It follows the
curve: so-to-speak. As a cartoonist, I make copies daily on $.10 copy machines that have been around since before I was born. Not to compare myself to
R. Johnson or anything, but Art usually leads technology (?) That is, if you're true to your art, somebody will come up with an artful way to reproduce it for you.

What-do-you think? Does art lead technologies? Is the push nature to TV giving way to the pull of the Web? Is this all hogwash? or am i on to something?

Incidentally, have you noticed two spellings for Disk/disc? or disq? Hmm. Maybe a disk has a plastic cover and a disc spins freely in the box. Dunno.

About halfway through this first release from the Port Chester trio you realize what you're really listening to. It's high art, truly subconscious barchords with
mandatory thundering bassline. Harmonies out the kazoo. This is three teenagers? You're thinking. It's good. Reminiscent of early Graham Parker or perhaps
Elvis Costello, before he quit his dayjob as a computer operator. Or is it closer to the Police? It's a trio that's for sure: Or do I mean Graham Parsons?

Their first full length disc is called Dreamsequences. I caught them live at the Beachhouse in Old Greenwich, CT last 4th of July and was blown away! Rocked. Rochambros. ****