Sunday, October 31, 2010

Facebook and Google

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A few months ago, I wrote Tips for Nooglers . That post became far more widely read than I expected, and one of my friends at Facebook, Stev...
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A Perfect Pigeon Point Edition

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From Screen Captures From Screen Captures Pigeon Point Halloween 2010 In the past few years, I've been using Pigeon Point hostel ...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Review: The Fuller Memorandum

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The Fuller Memorandum is the latest in Charles Stross' Laundry Novels, the first two being The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morg...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Review: The God Engines

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The God Engines is John Scalzi 's novella set in a fantasy world where gods are captured and used to drive starships. Sounds whacky? ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Review: Astro City: The Dark Age

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The Astro City series is a series about the reconstruction of superheroes. In other words, we get to see them as they would be created toda...

Review: More Money Than God

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If I had to summarize More Money Than God in two words it would be "survivorship bias." Mallaby spends the first two thirds of th...

Old accounts haunt you...

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Last night I had a police officer from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office come by my house at 11:00pm. It led to an extremely long ...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Strong Frame #2

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Strong Frame Returns! Carl has sent me a replacement frame, and I built it up today! The changes from the previous frames were: 72 degre...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Review: The Social Network

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Between Scott Adams' review of the movie and Steve Grimm telling me that teenagers were considering becoming computer scientists becaus...

Berkeley Presentation

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I was over at Cal on Friday to give a talk at the CSUA general meeting. Before that, I spent some time visiting with friends. Berkeley is ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Review: Psych Yourself Rich

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(Disclaimer: I got my Kindle copy of the book for free) In September, someone asked me for basic financial advice: should she contribute to...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Canadian Rockies: Epilogue and Conclusions

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The flight home was uneventful, though as some of you know, the aftermath of the return was anything but. I feel that I'm bragging whe...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

2010 Canadian Rockies Fall Colors Trip

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2010 Canadian Rockies Fall Colors When my family and I started exploring the Canadian Rockies in 1994, 1995, and 1996, I wasn't much ...
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Review: Chasing Stars

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I've always maintained that performance is extremely contextual: treating performance as an individual issue, not as a team effort is mi...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Day 14: Many Glacier to Kalispell

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I woke up in the morning to the sound of rain drops on the roof of my van and groaned. This did not bode well at all. And in fact, as I drov...
Monday, October 04, 2010

Day 13: Banff to Many Glacier

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I woke up in the morning and made breakfast in the kitchen. I heard two women talking about driving to Glacier National Park en route to Min...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Day 12: Wilcox Pass Trailhead campground to Banff

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I woke up bright and early and ready to hit the trail. Well, actually, I dithered a bit because I was in no hurry to get up to the ridge and...
Saturday, October 02, 2010

Day 11: Jasper to Wilcox Pass Trailhead Campground

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The morning found me downing a quick breakfast of ramen, tea, and sneaking out of the youth hostel by 6:30am. I started worrying about getti...