Hurley Smoke Stacks

Hurley Smoke Stacks

A group of locals has gotten together and funded a photo contest. Two giant smokestacks from the Phelps Dodge Hurley Smelter are going to be taken down in the next year. This is a contest to memorialize them. The website is here.

Mountains and Rivers

Misplaced
“The stone woman gives birth to a child in the night.” This means that the time when “a stone woman gives birth to a child” is “the night”.
There are male stones, female stones, and stones neither male nor female. They repair heaven, and they repair earth. There are stones of
heaven, and there are stones of earth. Though this said in the secular world, it is rarely understood. We should understand the reason behind
this “giving birth to a child”. At the time of birth, are parent and child transformed together? We should not only study that birth is realized in the
child becoming the parent; we should also study and fully understand that the practice and verification of birth is realized when the parent
becomes the child. - from Soto Zen Journal

Pr0n

A new series for February, about porn. Wikipedia for Pr0n is:

Pr0n or pron is 1337 slang for pornography

This deliberately inaccurate spelling/pronunciation for “porn” is sometimes used in legitimate communications (such as email discussion groups, Usenet, chat rooms, and internet web pages) to circumvent language and content filters - which might result in messages being rejected as offensive or flagged as spam - and to prevent search enginesfrom associating them with pornography - which might result in unwelcome traffic. It has subsequently become one of the most widely used examples of 1337 speak (leet speak). Pr0n is also sometimes spelled backwards to further obscure the meaning to potential non-informed readers.

It can also refer to ASCII art depicting pornographic images.

Pr0n show ad

No ASCII art but photo collage using GIMP and Metapixel. Using found images and changing them in GIMP then putting them through Meatpixel.