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The iButton temperature logger, USB reader, and capsule arrived. I had to dig through the example source to access the logger (the authors are idiots), then naturally tossed it in the freezer. The battery is rated for four years at -40C; my GPS's AAs lasted twenty minutes.

I ordered an iButton temperature logger that can record for over forty days on a battery rated to last a decade. Paired with an external GPS antenna (so last year's super-cold AAs don't die mid-climb), I should get a merged altitude-and-temperature graph from Denali. Number-fun.

I parsed every iChat log back to 2005: 291,640 messages, 2.5 million words, 911 days. After a brutal fight with backslash escaping into Postgres, I ranked my top 100 words against the people I chat with. They talk about themselves, and about me, more than I do.