Smudge
The new Spot Messenger finally showed up in stores, and now there's one in my pocket named Smudge. Also: my gym thinks my wife doesn't count as family, and the Garmin Oregon's topo data is gorgeous but still stupid expensive.
Curtis Jones
Hooooooooome
Ten hours door-to-door, thanks to New York air traffic control. But I discovered the Delta Crown Room exists, and now I plan to arrive at the airport absurdly early forever.
There's a moose...
"There's a moose. Where's my gun?" Actually I was reaching for my iPod, but a desert eagle in Alaska would have been cooler.
Cold
I call this one "Cold." It was actually warm, considering the altitude.
I'd rather be ice climbing
Winter is nearly here and Ouray is icing up. New season, new ice tools, and one of them is simply beautiful. By the time I'm back from Ecuador it should be all out madness.
Maze Solver [3]
The C port of the core maze solver is done, tested, and wired into the OS X app. The solution line comes out so much cleaner now.
Enchiladas (Made in China)
Super Taco Express: a Mexican restaurant staffed entirely by Chinese people, including a guy with a perfect American accent. Watching them make my enchiladas, not laughing out loud was a struggle.
Maze Solver [2]
Ported the maze solver core to C and got it compiling. With pre-allocated memory pools instead of the Objective-C object churn, I have high hopes for the speed. Benchmarks to follow, after Phantom of the Opera.
Maze Solver
My mind was under-used, so I pointed it at solving mazes. Here's the algorithm that searches like water flowing across a level floor, complete with pseudo code and a few stubbornly imperfect mazes.
New Yorker Phone Etiquette
Strange phone calls keep coming to my hotel room. One caller claimed to be the FBI; another insisted that if this were a Marriott I'd answer the phone differently. There isn't a lot of trust going on here.