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6000footdrop.com Begets a Twit: @6kfootdrop and Its #InanityIndex

6000footdrop.com survived its fifth anniversary in 2015. 85 posts over 65 months with about 65,000 unique viewers from 136 countries. A modest success for a PG-rated website with nothing to sell.

But the world changes, and the pace of hobbies apparently tags along. 6000footdrop.com retains its mission to report on travel, politics, and fine living, but it is newly committed to breaking its slow pattern of reporting only when something old, odd, or large comes around. So, we've invested in a twit handle @6kfootdrop in order to more timely comment on the direction of modern life.

Two weeks into this experiment, @6kfootdrop is pushing its own hashtag the #InanityIndex, which is a starting point for an algorithm to help decipher the quizzical behavior of modern man. #InanityIndex = bad ideas x efficacy x personal unawareness. You choose the relative weighting of these three factors, and if other factors also contribute to the inanity of the situation you are facing. For example, Washington State near-famous Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers scores high on the #InanityIndex despite her low relative efficacy, because her bad ideas and personal unawareness are high.

For example, if you look at the US Presidents of the past 50 years, the most inane is certainly George W. Bush and arguably the least inane was Lyndon B. Johnson, so run them throughout the #InanityIndex to rank them. Do the same with the last 30 Best Picture Oscar winners to find No Country for Old Men and Schindler's List  are the #LeastInane, and Titanic and Dances with Wolves are the #MostInane.

Probably @6kfootdrop's most inane tactic so far has been picking on intolerant, out of touch, uneducated Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers as imbecilic, and manipulable. 

Once the Congresswoman's shallow well is exhausted, we might focus the #InanityIndex on arcane political history, or technology advice, or reality television, or taking ambiguous points of view on political hot buttons like abortion. Empowering human potential?

Or maybe we'll keep it more cosmological or soulful.

But fear not, 6000footdrop.com will continue to report on the big and important events of travel, politics, and fine living, and its protege @6kfootdrop will report on the inane ones as they surface.

Look for the #InanityIndex at the @6kfootdrop twitter feed top right of this page!

Boo! 6000footdrop Surpasses 10,000 Hits

6000footdrop.com debuted 20 weeks ago.  50 posts later, this week the hit counter exceeded 10,000 hits.  Regular readers may have assumed we surpassed 10,000 hits long ago, and we appreciate that vote of confidence.

Our first post "6000 Foot Drop - Will North America Get There?" detailed our greatest lift-served vertical drops.  A few (those in soggy Whistler denial) were surprised that the new vert king is Reve Reve Reve Revelstoke BC at an over 5600 vertical foot drop.

Our most popular post "Telluride CO:  Phish -- San Miguel Has Tickets" showcased the box canyon alpenglow even more impressive than Phish.  Could there be a more stunning concert location?

Our most humorous post "Hollanders Speak Dutch in The Netherlands Despite Everything" was swimming in sex and drugs innuendo.  Or is innuendo even needed when these are your choices for entertainment in The Hague?

Our most scientific post "Amsterdam NL: The Bulldog Experiment" included a maximized trail run around Amsterdam consuming lattes and spacecakes (say it like you're Sean Connery) -- a precursor to post Prop 19 Oakland.

Our wettest post "Maui HI: The Road to Hana -- Twist Around" featured a floral ride along.  But maybe it was the mis-tagging of this grove of bamboo as "maui wowie" that has driven this photo to the top of our photo archives.

Our most ambitious post "Exile on Main Street -- Phish vs Stones Face-Off" was mostly text about musical subtleties and musical superiority.  Here's to the one year anniversary of Phish's Exile on Main Street! 

The two posts most likely to short out your keyboard were  Patrick J. Lynch -- One of the Pacific Northwest's Pioneers of Skiing and Patrick J. Lynch -- He Showed Those Doctors Who's Boss .  Independence Day takes on even more meaning now.

6000footdrop.com has another 10,000 hits in the queue, so we hope you'll continue to tune-in. 

See you in Marin County!