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Hakuna Matata

This is what total relax­ation looks like—atleast to me. I took a long
walk with the dog into the back­coun­try, far from the city, traf­fic and stress.
It was cold (~5C°) but oth­er­wise lovely weather. The only piece of
tech­nol­ogy I took with me was my mobile phone with inte­grated camera—I decided to cap­ture this
moment of intense enjoy­ment. Maybe it will some­how make every­one happy. So
what’s your favorite activ­ity or spot to get away from it all?

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Sunday, March 28th, 2004.

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9 comments on “Hakuna Matata”

  1. Posted by Mike on Sunday, March 28th, 2004.

    Late after­noon on my favorite golf course. Play­ing by myself, mid-August, with nobody in front of me or behind me.

    Sit­ting on a bench behind a tee box and soak­ing it all in.

  2. Posted by David Barrett on Sunday, March 28th, 2004.

    What phone is that? The image qual­ity is much bet­ter than any­thing I’ve seen so far.

  3. Posted by Didier Hilhorst on Sunday, March 28th, 2004.

    Mike — Oh, I can so relate man. We dis­cussed play­ing a round of golf but it was really too cold (hey, I can’t have my hands freez­ing off while putting…) I’m pretty much a good weather player although I’ll occa­sion­ally hit a ball (once every week though) dur­ing the win­ter just to keep the swing going.

    David — I actu­ally have an old one. The first one to have a cam­era to be pre­cise: Nokia 7650. Remem­ber that there was a lot of sun that day. The 0.5 megapixel cam­era needs that amount of light to pro­duce decent pic­tures. Not enough light results in poor and grainy pho­tos (and I’ve got a ton of those). Oh, and make sure you’re not mov­ing at all when tak­ing the pic­ture. Any move­ment, even the slight­est, and the qual­ity degrades dramatically.

  4. Posted by Chris Vincent on Sunday, March 28th, 2004.

    I’ve got a lovely, cush­iony couch in my liv­ing room that’s just per­fect for relax­ing. If I’m feel­ing more active, I’ll take a walk around my neigh­bor­hood, or wres­tle with my dog.

  5. Posted by justin goodlett on Monday, March 29th, 2004.

    My favorite place to relax would have to be on the couch with a book and some New­cas­tle — or on the front porch watch­ing all the peo­ple walk by. It’s quite enjoyable.

  6. Posted by Dustin on Monday, March 29th, 2004.

    Very nice pho­tos. As for your ques­tion, I think that is my prob­lem… I have nowhere to get away from it all. Even when I sit down and read a book, I always put on some nice relax­ing ambi­ent music on in the back­ground on my stereo. Tech­nol­ogy has a huge hold on me.

  7. Posted by mattymcg on Monday, March 29th, 2004.

    Nice shots for a phone!

    Man is it hard to get away from it all liv­ing in cen­tral Tokyo. Even if you sit on a train for a cou­ple of hours, if it is a week­end then half of the city fol­lows you.

    The biggest thing I miss about Aus­tralia is chill­ing on the beach. Well, the fact that there IS no beach. So when I go home in a cou­ple of months I will be doing a lot of squish­ing my feet in the sand, walk­ing along the shore, skim­ming rocks, writ­ing silly mes­sages in the sand with a stick, doing hand­stands in the water, and chal­leng­ing my bud­dies to race me to the buoy 300 metres out… that’s my way of relaxing.

  8. Posted by Jennifer Grucza on Thursday, April 1st, 2004.

    Nice dog­gie! :)

    My ideal way of relax­ing is to wan­der around the woods for a while, espe­cially in the fall when there isn’t too much under­growth left, but before it gets too cold. I used to love wan­der­ing around my grand­par­ents’ land (40 acres in rural South­ern Illi­nois) with my family’s dog, Pep­per, run­ning ahead of me. Some­times I’d take a cam­era, some­times not. I’d try to get lost then find my way back again. I’d try to find cre­ative ways to cross the creek with­out get­ting wet. I’d find milk­weed plants and open their pods to get to the cot­tony fiber inside.

    It’s a lit­tle harder to find a sim­i­lar envi­ron­ment here in Boston. The nice places I’ve found haven’t been nearly as deserted as I’d like. And it’s really too bad I can’t take one of my cats traips­ing about the woods with me. If I try to put a leash on them, they just fall down and won’t move. And I don’t trust them out­side with­out a leash. And that’s if they wouldn’t totally freak out about being out­side (they’re indoor cats).

  9. Posted by Didier Hilhorst on Friday, April 2nd, 2004.

    Jen­nifer — She’s indeed a nice dog­gie though she never lis­tens. Usu­ally it’s a lot of fun, but as soon as she finds some hole that might have any­thing liv­ing in it she starts dig­ging like crazy and ignores every­thing around her. Which includes me. Ugh.