Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Review: Century Rain

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Century Rain is Alastair Reynolds' time travel science fiction novel. (Yes, I'm on a Reynolds kick right now) If you want to be a h...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Cranks, Bottom Brackets, and Upgrades

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Pardo was on my case about my cranks for about a year or so, ever since he built up my custom frame . His reason was that the pedal eyes of ...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Review: Zima Blue And Other Stories

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Zima Blue and Other Stories is a surprisingly uneven collection of Alastair Reynolds' short stories. As you might expect from Alastair ...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Review: Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

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Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days is two novellas joined together by a tenuous link set in the Revelation Space universe. The novellas are well...

Purissima Creek Hike

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  From Bay Area This turned out to be a very pretty hike! I was impressed. Shyam and I got started late around 10:00am, but the fog that was...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Tour of the Alps 2005 Pictures Redux

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Tour of the Alps 2005 In 2005, Mike, Steve Purcell, and I did a Tour of the Alps , Jobst-style. That was my first foray into digital photogr...

Review: The Outskirter's Secret

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This is book two of Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman series, and is out of print but can be bought as part of an omnibus collection . The...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

New Zealand 2000: Flying Kiwi

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New Zealand 2000 In February 2000, I went to New Zealand. It wasn't a spur of the moment trip, but I decided to go with Flying Kiwi Expe...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

This year's bike trip...

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... is in its planning stages. Right now, I'm thinking of Hokkaido, in Japan. Why? Because Japan is a mountainous country with polite dr...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Review: Defense Grid, The Awakening

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Defense Grid: The Awakening is a member of the Desktop Tower Defense genre. When I first stumbled upon the flash based members of this gen...

Netgear Fail

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2 years ago in July, I bought a Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ on Dan Wallach 's recommendation (it helped that my brother in San Diego was runni...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Tuition and Alumni Giving

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Someone over at friendfeed pointed me at this New York Times article about Harvard students having a new and innovative loan for going to s...
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New England 2000 Bike Trip

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New England 2000 In September 2000, I flew to Manchester, New Hampshire, photographed Scarlet 's wedding, and then rode my bike to Portl...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

South Africa, February 2001

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South Africa 2001 Lisa and I visited South Africa in 2001, starting in Cape Town by visiting a Jana, Radek's sister. Her family kindly p...

Review: The Age of Entanglement

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I loved the concept behind The Age of Entanglement . Rather than just explaining the physics behind Quantum theory and the impressive improv...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

The Miscellaneous Collection

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Miscellaneous Sooner or later, if you shoot enough, you'll find perfectly good photos that don't fit into any other category. Like m...

Review: The Graveyard Book

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I somehow never got to the Graveyard Book last year. It wasn't just because I was in Germany (I had a Kindle), it was that for $9.99, t...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Tour of Hokkaido Solicitation Letter

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My doctor has said that I will be done with my thrice weekly physical therapy sessions by the end of July, and I might even not be fat and ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Dead Kindle

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  My Kindle just gave up the ghost. As you can see from the image, the failure mode is a strange one: it's not that I cracked the screen...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Pictures from my first bike tour in Europe

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Tour of Languedoc-Roussillon (Southern France) 1998 In 1998, Paul DuBois and I joined a retired history Professor, his wife, and two other c...