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lenses, lenses everywhere
Amy and I are heading out to Glacier and Yellowstone parks next summer! If our trip to Alaska last year taught me anything about lenses – it’s that 70mm is not enough when you’re looking at things really far away. More below.
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Requests For Rain Dance
Weather for Sunday looks hot. I’m having flashbacks to the first year I ran the race in the 90+ degree heat and close to 100% humidity. I don’t think it will be as humid on Sunday, just hot. I think I’ve learned a lot since then in terms of what to do/not do with respect […]
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loosen the belt
Here’s a fascinating video animating our discovery of asteroids in the aptly named ‘belt‘ between 1980 and 2010. You’ll notice detection generally occurs in relation to the third blue dot sweeping around the sun. That’s us, silly goose! The discovery rate increased in the 90’s as the process became more automated. Then in very recent […]
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fall phish
Phish is kicking off their Fall tour shortly and I’ve ordered tickets to the Amherst show on the 23rd of October. Since regrouping last year they’ve gone to this raffle format for the initial round of ticketing. It’s for people on their mailing list, or for people who are actively paying attention. You tell them […]
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One Week To Go
Rainy morning and my car roof is leaking. What a way to start the day. It’s ALWAYS something. Three miles in the rain. Home for a nice, warm shower and breakfast. Ran 13 on the course on Friday afternoon. Felt ok afterwards but we’ll see on Sunday when the gauntlet is thrown down. Start the […]
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tempii
Everyone loves slo mo. If you don’t already, it’s just because you don’t know it yet. It’s like seeing a hidden world within a world. A dream, within a dream. Oh, speaking of dreams – I saw Inception last night.
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seabreacher x
First of all, yes please! Second and third and fourth and fifth, I have no interest in the actual ‘breaching’ part, looks like it could use a defroster, they want $95k for one, and your chances of drowning after ramming into a rock/stump/log or being run over by a real boat = 100%.
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kill-a-watt
I recently purchased a watt meter for the house and it came in the mail yesterday. Nothing fancy but it does the job. And that job is to measure the electrical usage of individual items in your house. They do make systems that integrate with your home at the panel – giving you immediate feedback […]
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jensen kimmitt: yo-yo savant
This guy is amazing.
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htpc realized (semi)
I’m surprised I haven’t done a review for the home theater PC I put together a week or so ago. I think it’s because I’m still working out the kinks – 3 weeks and I still haven’t finished loading the drives with all my video and we don’t have internet yet so it’s always going […]