I spent my third Memorial Day in a row in the cycling paradise of Pendleton, Oregon. Can’t say too much more about the ride itself that hasn’t already been said. On the way there, I stopped in Ellensburg to do an art walk multi-cache. This one was pretty cool. Disturbing yard-art: Check out the whole […]
The bike rental fell through. Despite having made a reservation and providing a credit card number and calling to confirm, the kid running it had given out all the bikes in my size. There, behind him, was a calendar with my name in light blue highlighter. Sigh. The day wasn’t totally a waste. I visited
Partly sunny, no bike to rent Read More »
Is it wrong to look forward to attending an industry trade show just so I can see that bright yellow thing? It’s been so long since I’ve been in 70+ degree weather… I am definitely renting a bike on Sunday!
Two weeks ago I was in State College, PA, home of football powerhouse Penn State University. One of the first things I noticed upon entering my tasteful, blue and white hotel room at the Nittany Inn was the brochure for Football Fantasy Camp 2009. For $4,995, one could spend four days in football/PSU alumni bliss:
State College is to College Station as Columbus is to Austin Read More »
Somewhere over Montana, our pilot announced there was a malfunction in the food heaters in the front of the plane (used for first class; the unclean masses in coach can purchase an unheated Box O’ Salty Snacks for five buckaroos), so we would be turning around. Odd – the safety concern is great enough that
I gotta stop traveling Read More »
The exhibit hours begin at the insanely sadistic 7:00 a.m., made even worse by this being in EST and my still being sick. If my experiment with fasting yields positive results and I am coherent tomorrow evening, I hope to check out the fireworks downtown (though not the rooftop VIP option ;-). I didn’t even
Initial review of the AGU conference: awesome. Brain is happy from the learndrophins. More on that Sunday, after I catch up on sleep. The BART ticket machines’ user interface must have intentionally been poorly-designed. Buying a ticket went like this: Look up fare on the list posted to the right of the machine. Put credit
He doesn’t bite. The first bloc of today’s presentations were about carbon capture and sequestration. Fascinating stuff. The first presenter, from the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, presented a “stabilization triangle” model. Carbon emissions in 2004 were estimated to be 7 gigatons/year. On the current path, it’s expected to be 14 Gt/y by 2055. Stabilizing output would
Lenny Bruce was not afraid Read More »