AZW-0503

Dear Sir, It is my hope that one day you'll decide to Google your license plate and that you'll find this blog post. I'm sorry that my bicycle descent from Neel Gap wasn't fast enough for you. Because you held down your

Phil "Boring" Schiller

The one executive at Apple who can consistently take an exciting, world-changing product and introduce it with the world's most boring half hour monologue -- is supposedly becoming the "public face" of Apple. I thought Tim Cook was smarter than that. I look forward to reading

Day Zero?

I guess today is as good a day as any tot declare as the first day of this trip. I think I usually declare the ore-departure packing day as the first day of the trip but I really don't have much to say about it. But today I

Liftoff!

Short hair. If there's one thing I learned from the 2008 Alaska trip (beside the fact that NOT every small town has a barber - and I had always assumed the contrary, even if the barber was also the town sheriff and building inspector), is that if you&

T-Minus Seven Days

Seven short days until take-off. I've pulled the rope out of storage. I could probably almost set up a 5-to-1 pulley blind-folded. (Let's hope that particular skill isn't put to the test.) I customized my new backpack with an attachment on each side, onto

Fooooood

The final detail - meal planning - is done. We're going to bring roughly twenty-two days of food that we can stretch out to twenty-five. There won't be any pancakes, bacon and maple syrup breakfasts this year but it'll still be decent food. It

Linkers

I spent this week learning about Node.js C++ add ons, node-wap, node-gyp and linker behavior. What a week. The monkey wrench in the whole thing was that this C++ add on depended on a particular static library (".a" file). The resulting file (from "node-wap build"

D-Link Life Expectancy

My home network has had at its center a D-Link switch for a year and a half now. Recently it has started failing every few days - refusing to route any packets until it was rebooted. Considering the value of a packet-switching device that refuses to route packets, this was

Denali and Hunter

So it looks like there's a chance team Midnight Meat Train will be tackling the West Ridge of Mt. Hunter after we finish up the West Rib of Denali (time permitting). And not to jump too far ahead, but hopefully that'll all lead up to the

Winter in Atlanta

I spent most of last week in New Hampshire. The state is completely covered in snow and ice and somehow the people there continue to function. Upon returning home I made a trek to the grocery store. I chanced to pass by where some water was dripping from an over-hang