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Talkeetna

So, I just booked a room for two nights in Talkeetna, Alaska - the two nights immediately prior to the start of our trip up (and back down, hopefully) Mt. McKinley. While talking on the phone to the old guy at the hotel, he mentioned that the town has been

Burrito Bars Sans Tortillas

We have a burrito bar at work today for lunch. They forgot the tortillas. The office manager was on the phone with the restaurant, "...yeah, you forgot the tortillas; it sort of makes our burrito bar useless." So, burrito components, with nachos, for lunch today.

McKinley Routine Part 2

I did forty floors today (up forty and down forty) with the same twenty pound pack in twenty-four minutes (twenty seconds per floor per direction) and I did a decent job of holding a constant pace. That equates to thirty-seven minutes for the entire building. If I triple the weight

First Guess for nth Root

I want to add an implementation of the PrimeSwing algorithm for computing factorials to my math library, and it requires both prime sieve and square root functions. So, I'm working on add nth root support first. I found this article on Wikipedia on the topic. The first step

McKinley Routine

I'm eating fresh popped popcorn and drinking a fifty dollar bottle of wine. Something is very wrong with me. Anyway. Subsequent to Rainier I became aware that my gym routine was not entirely adequate for mountain climbing so I've decided to start climbing the stairs of

Where to Move To

My apartment lease here in New York ends in a couple of months and I intend to remain in the area for another year. Following that, however, employment allowing, I intend to move. In considering possible destinations, I've settled on the following criteria: Geography Weather Mountains Beaches People

One Sane Cop

So, yet another instance of a cop abusing his power with his taser. Instead of having to posses an even rudimentary ability to control a situation outside of brute force and physical violence, the cop tasers the kid for no justifiable reason. Some interesting viewer comments on the cop-car-cam video

The Four Most Prolific Things in NYC

Without further ado, the four most prolific things in New York City are: 1. Cockroaches 2. Rats 3. People ... 4. Water towers Didn't see that coming, did you? I noticed this while eating my 3pm orange today. I took a picture from the roof of the building I

Resistentialism

I learned something new today. Resistentialism: a jocular theory in which inanimate objects display hostile desires towards human beings. Read more about it here.

Tracey is Wrong

An oldie but goodie. Click for the bigger image.

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