On Saturday, I went out with a local “Hike of the Month” (geocaching) group on the redux of their “Snowshoe 101.” (Yes, despite living within 30 miles of a snowy mountain, I have never gone snowshoeing before. Or skiing.) The goal was Gold Creek Arches, with an optional trek out to Snowshoe 101. A […]
During a long bike ride yesterday, I noticed several road signs calling attention to a fine of $101 for driving without a seat belt. I’d noticed these signs before, but while traveling at the glacial pace my winter legs permitted, I read them a lot more than once 😉 Upon passing of House Bill 1460,
A “cache machine” is geocaching social where someone sets up a route that people can follow to make a high number of geocache finds in a relatively short period of time. On Sunday, I attended one in Belfair, WA. Since Belfair is not too far from home, I planned on driving up the morning of.
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I’ve been researching date/time formats for inclusion in a software product, and wanted to share some of the thought processes involved.Use case: an engineer or scientist wants to plot something over some time period. All time periods are possible, so we must provide years down to minutes. For example, a coastal engineer surveyed said he:
King Neptune, outside Mardis Gras Land A few weeks ago, I spent a week in New Orleans at Supercomputing 2010. (Sometimes my job has perks.) I wrote a really long summary of this for internal use, but thought I’d share some of my notes: Jack Dongarra of Oak Ridge National Labs offered his perspective
John writes his thoughts about PC World’s “Best Tech Products for 2010” and asks about others’ intersections. Here are mine: #2 Apple iPad — to be honest, when it was announced, I didn’t really see the big deal. However, then I got an iPhone 4 (six months after ditching my Windows laptop for a MacBook
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NOAA had a very cool display at Supercomputing 2010 this year. I would like to think think Cliff Mass has one of these in his study: Fig 1:It’s a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A white sphere, suspended in the middle of the
Toaster [twitter]: “Hope you enjoy standing outside in the rain while the Bellevue fire department shakes its head disapprovingly of your charred mess!” #EpicToastFail [3 seconds ago] “Dude, it’s looking medium well.” [2 minutes ago] NotMyJob: @Toaster is looking very dark now. [4 minutes ago] “Your toast is ready!” [5 minutes ago] Espresso machine [Facebook]:
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