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Month: October, 2006

gunny-fun

Spent the last weekend in Gunnison, CO, and it was quite the blast. My old friend John Peterson is now a professor at Western State College, and invited me to give a talk in his seminar class. So I went down on Thursday, and inbetween mountain biking at Harman Rocks (in John’s backyard!) and [...]

netflix notes

Executive Decision ipod I recently joined the Netflix revolution, having resisted for quite some time due to a) inherent Asian cheapness but more importantly, b) fear of wasting all my time watching movies and never doing anything else, due to my addictive personality. Whatever the case, I’m a member now.
One of the things you [...]

installing a pot rack

Vipers ipod
I wanted to remove one of the 1970s cabinets in my kitchen and install a pot rack. Unfortunately, the location of the studs didn’t exactly line up with the holes in the rack, which was a bummer.
The solution was to cut away the drywall on the other side of the wall (which was [...]

the fam (minus dad) visits

My mom and two brothers came out to Colorado for a nice 4-day weekend. Dad couldn’t make it due to using all his vacation to play golf. Oh well. Itinerary was:

Friday, brewery tour in Ft. Collins. Eat massive amounts of food.
Saturday, drive to RMNP, hike at the Glacier Gorge trailhead up to Mill’s lake. [...]

hp pretexting: black, white, or shades of grey?

As you might imagine, a lively debate has been raging inside the HP firewall (usenet is dead; long live usenet). Maybe more surprisingly, there hasn’t really been any thoughtful discourse on the matter. In one (lonely) camp, a few lone voices are defending HP’s conduct of the investigation as if it were the Maginot line. [...]

mountains == men

Hilarious fluff piece today in the local rag that basically says Colorado is a sausage fest. The article says that there are 1.16 men for every 1 woman in both Larimer County and the State.
What could possibly explain this? According to the article:

Where there are mountains, there are men, said CSU sophomore Laura Phillipson, [...]