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Mt. McKinley (2008) - Day 01

Traveling to Anchorage New York to Atlanta to Salt Lake City to Anchorage. This is going to be a long day. I'm taking car service to the airport. Hauling a hundred pounds in two large duffel bags is no fun on the subway and a bus. It'

Alaska

The majority of my possessions (by mass) in New York that are neither furniture nor computers are now stuffed in two large duffle bags, ready for tomorrow's departure. I leave my apartment at 9am and around midnight I'll be checking out the exciting night-life in Anchorage.

Mt. McKinley (2008) - Day 00

Still in New York Overview An account of my May 2008 trip to Mt. McKinley (Denali). You can find the original online post here. This is based on the journal I kept during the expedition. I've finally got all of the journal typed up and available here and

Bases of Pi

As I was falling asleep last night I started wondering whether pi looked more interesting in other bases. I took the first 50 digits (in base 10) of pi and made a bignum out of it and looped from base 2 to 36 and printed it out. Since I only

BigMath-20080428-1

Since I probably won't have anything substantial to add before I leave for Alaska, I figured I'd do a BigMath release now. I've added nth root support (which puts me one step closer to fast factorial support), string-to-bignum support, and a half-completed calculator GUI.

Is Java Dying?

I'm trying to find an RPC protocol (xmlrpc, json, soap, rest, etc.) and server-side implementation for Java that doesn't depend on the massively over-grown and unmanageable train wreck which is J2EE. And I'm not saying that J2EE shouldn't exist (although that thought

BigMath on the Free Software Directory

I had never heard of the Free Software Directory before, but they apparently have my BigMath project listed there. Also, the Free Software Directory listing for BigMath ranks #2 on the Google search results for BigMath, while the official BigMath page has moved up to #3 (previously #4), and something

Mt. McKinley Routine Part 13

I did 48 flights of stairs this time with 77 pounds. I decided to not skip steps on the way down because that seems to be really hard on my knees with this much weight. And it took precisely one Rage Against The Machine album to do this.

Overconfidence

I went to a dance performance this evening. A modern dance performance. Some of it was very enjoyable - like the last piece, which featured two Bjork songs. Actually, it was really good. Another piece of the performance was decent. And the rest of the performance did nothing more than

Hot and Cold

Given a room of people with relatively similar body fat levels, what causes some of those people to be cold while others are hot? Something to do with the individual's metabolism? I'm going to see if I can find out.

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