Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Day 6: December 29th, 2008

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I slept well on the boat, but Hector complained about the heat, which would turn out to be an incessant complaint for him the rest of the tr...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Review: Dive Shops in the Virgin Islands

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If there's anything I learned on this trip, it is that it is nearly impossible to get a good gauge of dive shops over the internet. We w...
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Day 5: December 29th, 2007

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We woke up early this morning to check out of the hotel and wait by the scale house, where the Carribean Adventure Tours company would come...

Day 4: 27th December 2007

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We woke up to a wet floor, evidence that an storm had blown through over the night and our open balcony could be a liability as well as an a...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Review: EEE PC

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Now that I've had a chance to use the Asus EEE PC on an extended trip, I can write my review. First off, my configuration: One of the f...
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Day 3: 26th December 2007

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The morning found us once again at the dive shop getting our gear ready. Unfortunately, I seemed to be doing a good job losing gear --- firs...

Day 2: Christmas Day

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One of the reasons I picked Dive Experience for our lessons was that they were doing dives even on Christmas Day, albeit a late one. The n...
Sunday, January 06, 2008

2008 Book Reviews Index

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The 2008 Books of the Year have been announced and picked! Fiction S pin The Jennifer Morgue Three Days to Never The Atrocity Archives The ...
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Review: Spin

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I ran out of reading material for the trip back, so I borrowed Spin from Hector Yee , who had finished it on the flight to the Virgin Islan...

Review: Canon WP-DC 70 Waterproof Housing for the SD500

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Underwater camera housings are a specialty item, and are priced to match: this one cost $160, along with an underwater weight package to ma...

2007 Books of the Year

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Overall, the book of the year has got to be The Conscience of A Liberal by Paul Krugman. Well written, this book shines the light on the so...

Day 1: Christmas Eve, 2007

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For some reason, I thought that the Virgin Islands was 5 hours ahead of California, so I'd set the alarm clock accordingly. Of course, w...

Pictures: Virgin Islands Trip

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Virgin Islands Trip 2007-2008 Virgin Islands (Edited) The main album is the album that has all the pictures that might be of interest to the...

Prologue, Dec 22nd-23rd, 2007

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On Dec 22nd, 2007, Lisa and I flew to St. Croix for Dive training , followed by a sailing tour of the Virgin Islands. Our flight took a par...

Index to the Virgin Islands Trip

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From December 23rd, 2007 to January 5th, 2008, Lisa and I went to the Virgin Islands for a diving and sailing trip. We traveled 135 miles b...

The Voyage of Rya Jen

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My brothers bought me a GPS unit for my birthday, so for the first time, here's a GPS-chart of the course of our sailing trip!
Friday, January 04, 2008

Life on Mars TV Series Review

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Its sort of been a time traveling theme this last few weeks for me, what with reading Joe Halderman's The Accidental Time Machine and wa...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Virgin Island Pictures, Part the First

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Virgin Islands Part I - St Croix

Book Review: While I was Gone

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This is a story about two women: Jo Becker and Dana Jablonski. They meet in their twenties during the 1960s. Jo is running away from a marri...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Rainbow over St. Croix

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After today's SCUBA lessons, we had a late lunch and returned to our hotel in time to see some rain clouds form and start small rains f...