One of the last things that Phil suggested I do was this really cool walk up Mt. Fox, near the Fox glacier. Sounded good to me, so he printed off a b&w topo for me, and bade Wendy and him adieu.
A few hours later, I arrived at the Fox glacier village, filled out an intentions [...]
I bought an OLPC XO through the G1G1 program for several reasons, among them my theory that the requirements and use case of a travelling backpacker and developing nation child might be pretty similar.
This is my field report after three weeks in Australia and New Zealand.
I appreciated the ruggedness due to sealed keyboard, sealed I/O [...]
One of my many weird personality quirks is that I like to eat at McDonald’s in every new country that I visit. Hey, since American “culture” is our biggest export, I figure I may as well check in on it and see how it’s doing in other countries…
First up, the mcd’s at MEL. They were [...]
When you find kindred spirits vibrating along the same superstring in our cosmic universe, life becomes a Miles Davis milkshake. Falling back in the groove with Wendy and Philip was smoother than apple pie.
With open arms, huge smiles, and glasses of fine wines endemic to the greater Tasman region, they welcomed me into their home [...]
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Howdy folks,
A quick email just to let y’all know I’m still tramping around NZ. Past few days have seen some hiking, climbing, and goggling at the landscapes.
I’m off in a bit to do some more tramping, but here is a very quick photo dump, or “ode to my ego” as I like to call [...]
So it turns that Kiwi immigration laws aren’t so conducive to a devil-may-care attitude to travel.
RocketMan the movie
During my checkin attempt at MEL, the ticket agent asked for my return flight information. My response of “Um, I only bought a one-way ticket because I don’t know when and where I plan on flying out [...]
Taken In Broad Daylight aka Snatched ipod
Spent the past few days wandering around Melbourne. After checking out of the expensive but crappy hotel that HP paid for, found a real gem of a hostel, called the Nunnery. Resplendant with religious relics, but I’m still undecided as to whether they’re ironic or genuine. Regardless, ’twas [...]
Allow me to indulge in a rant. Dear annoying American guy from Brooklyn: you are American. You have an American accent. It’s just the way it is, so get used to it. When you speak in a confused jumbled mealy-mouthed mishmash of Aussie, English, Irish, Brooklyn, Welsh, and Moron, everyone can tell. The people you’re [...]
Howdy friends and family!
First, an apology to the non-nerds out there (aka, 98% of you)
who were attempting to glean something interesting out of my blog
for the past week. Sorry about the extreme nerd overload, but on
the other hand, that’s actually the world I live in so be thankful
that I attempt to be interesting when interfacing [...]
Whoops, one last nerdlinger entry, and that’s just to give a quick report on Open Day. This year, we (HP) had a few ideas on how to make Open Day better (from our perspective), namely, giving away schwag and actually bringing a product running Linux. Good ideas, right?
On the first front, for some reason, the [...]