Friday, August 26, 2011

Day 22: St. Caterina to Fondo

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From Tour of the Alps 2011 We woke up to clear blue skies which made me feel like the decision to wait for better was justified. The c...

Day 21: Bormio to St. Caterina

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We woke up to cloudy, foreboding skies, but by the time we left the clouds hadn't gotten any worse so we thought we could make it up Ga...
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Day 20: Glorenza to Bormio

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We woke up once again to sunny skies and a very small breakfast where we nevertheless met Leo Verhoeven from the Netherlands. Leo was a fas...

Day 19: St. Moritz Bad to Glorenza

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We woke up to beautiful sunshine that led us to believe that staying the extra day was the right thing to do. We eat a quick breakfast, rod...

Review: Monster Hunter International

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Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International is what John Steakley's classic Vampire$ would have been if it had been written by a ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Worldcon Notes: Discussion with Bill Willingham

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Fables is by far one of the most interesting comic books today. One of the big draw of WorldCon was the chance to meet author and creator B...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Worldcon Notes: Publishing in the Age of Ebooks

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The two most useful panels/seminars I attended at WorldCon were "How to give an effective reading", and "Publishing in the ag...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Trip Report WorldCon

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This year, I decided that since I no longer have a day job and can in fact take as much time off as I wanted to, I would do a really geeky t...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Day 18: Corvatsch Hike

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The night before, I had looked over all the literature and discovered that there was one cable-car way that accepted the half price card, an...

Review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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I was given this book by a Couchsurfer who stayed at my place last year. I set it aside, but found myself needing to take a break from Royal...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Day 17: Pontresina Hike

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We woke up in the morning to dense looking fog and forecast of afternoon rain. Dinner the night before was nothing special, but breakfast a...

Day 16: Zurich to St. Moritz Bad

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I woke up around 4:45am so XiaoQin and I could catch the 5:00am bus to the airport for her 6:45am flight. While at the airport, I noticed th...

Day 15: Carouge to Zurich

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From Jennie's apartment in Geneva, Saleve dominates the landscape. All dinner we could see the light on the mountain, which was shaped ...