Today we received an unseasonably late snow-storm that has left us with several inches of snow on the ground. We woke up this morning and were greeted by the first several inches of heavy, wet snow clinging to branches during a lull in the storm. After accidentally letting the cat…
Sarah’s Valentines Day blizzard photos Featuring your’s truly in snow-blower action shots as well as crazy downtown drifts.
On Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 snow started falling, hard. Sarah had class and I had a meeting that was not yet canceled, so we headed in to campus in the morning with several inches on the ground. A quick errand to the Agway for flowers at 10:00am required 15minutes of…
This weekend I started a project of mapping hiking and biking trails around Vermont and building a Google Earth data set of the trails, their heads, and destinations. View the trails in Google Maps. To view the trails in Google Earth: Download and install Google Earth Click on this link…
Sarah and I adopted Siegfried from the Addison County Humane Society on July 19th, 2006. He is 11 weeks old. Siegfried and his litter-mates were brought to the shelter as tiny babies and nursed by a surrogate momma cat at the Humane Society. He was sleeping when we first picked…
One of the neatest experiences I’ve had has been the [almost] complete removal of advertisements from my life. I live in Vermont (were we don’t allow billboards), don’t have (or otherwise watch) TV, use Ad-Block to remove Web-Ads, and only listen to CDs, college radio, or NPR. As such, then…
I’ve just put up a site to manage and aggregate iCal calendars from various different swing dance organizations: http://www.swingcalendars.org/
Introduction With the rapid increase of computer power and the growing software power-requirements that go with them, it is often easy to find old Pentium 100, 133, and 166 (or similar generation) laptops for little if any cost. Machines of this generation generally ran MS Windows 95, which can’t cope…
By Margaret Aleks – Law student, UC Hastings; Poll monitor, Election Protection November 3, 2004 San Francisco California Tell me we’re back in the fifties, the sixties, some other time; but 2004? Please, tell me the country hasn’t gone this far. Earlier last week, my constitutional law professor begged students…
In my many re-readings of Tolkein, I have come to learn that what I enjoy most about that master’s writing is the full, intricate, and detailed world that he creates, with its own physics, biology, cultures, and mythology. Miéville strives to create such a world, similar to, but divergent and…
