I started receiving three of “invitations” from spock.com on behalf of former coworkers: “Hi Jim Carson, [former coworker] has invited you to join their Trust Network on Spock. Click here to get started. Spock is a people search application for finding anyone in the world. Your Trust Network helps Spock tailor search for people you […]
My roller bag has endured immeasurable abuse in its three continent, twelve-year service. The zipper pulls had fallen off on the cobblestones of Amsterdam ((Because I was too cheap to change currency and get a cab, I took a train. It was an interesting two hours of people watching before I found the Radisson.)) in
There’s a joke around the office that I am most likely to ride when it’s most miserable outside. Conversely, when it’s sunny, I’ve often got something else going on that keeps me off the bike. That was how last week played out. Tuesday: I was coming back from a ten-day hiatus from cycling. The rain
[This is the remaining set of mental notes on the AGU conference, mostly as a mark for me to look up more later. Because it’s been a week two weeks, including a week of doing real work to ship products (w00t!), my recollection isn’t as good as it could be.]
Another blast from the past, and one leading me to realize I have a lot more cleanin’ to be doin’, was finding this pair of trade show badges being used as bookmarks. These are from a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, when I worked in a completely different industry than
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I made a huge batch of the Chocolate Crinkles again this year. The texture of these cookies is amazing – crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. They squish well against the roof of your mouth. 8 ounces unsweetened chocolate (I used half of a Trader Joe’s Bittersweet Pound Plus bar.) 1 C vegetable
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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
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