Each exhibitor was set up with a rectangle table covered with the ANSI-standard White Top and Black Shroud (whose purpose is to prevent the table from looking as fugly as it really is). It didn’t work well with the man-sized pop-up poster I came with, especially in the spot I had right up front. I […]
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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
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Day 3: Baker City to Halfway – The big epiphany today was that skipping the (now monotonous) breakfast meant I could sleep in. By getting on the road at 7:30, versus 6:30, I didn’t freeze my … um… didn’t need a jacket for the hour it was too cold. Now I just needed a step
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Last year at this time, Cacade’s Ride Around Washington was leaning towards the “Ring of Fire” volcano route. I’ve had good experiences on two of their other events, and was looking forward to riding this year’s. In every other year, the ride has open slots through June, plenty of time to figure out my
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Back in February, I’d mentioned how researchers were using computational fluid dynamics to understand the physics behind swimming. Though I didn’t come out and say it, my product is used in the post-processing of the results. With the interest in Michael Phelps’ potentially achieving eight gold medals (including a nail-biter today), there has been more
Not that I need another hobby, but… I’ve belatedly taken my friend Tracey’s suggestion to try geocaching, essentially a treasure hunt. When I started reading about it last month, I was impressed with how many of these things there are. Check out the map of geocaches within a few miles of home: The first one
Because I’ve had a bout of writer’s block, I am adopting the meme that seems to be cropping up on all of the cycling blogs I read: Q. If you could have any one – and only one – bike in the world, what would it be?A. A JP Weigle Randonneur frame (painted by Sacha
Woodstock wrote about the Green Dilemma earlier this week. I thought I’d pick off a couple of cases and work through the math parts to determine if savings would really be economic savings. Case 1: consider my 15 year-old Kitchenaid top-freezer with an ice maker. The Kitchenaid Marketing Literature says the technology has improved: if you’re