A blog from a science nut, computer geek, sometimes philosopher, and a human. Based out of Denver, with a love of Antarctica, I seem to wander the world so who knows where I'll be in 6 months.
I got out of DC yesterday and spent several wonderful hours wandering around polyface farms in the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia. 3 hours of a drive from DC, it was well worth the trip as we managed to shuttle past the persistent rainstorm settled atop DC for the beautiful weather at Polyface Farms. For … Read more
My life right now is a tunnel vision of DC, governed mostly by living in a district where national policies are decided, but feel handed out. As I was laying in bed moments ago, I was prompted to arise by a thread of thoughts which reminds me how much we as a represented people need … Read more
To follow up my previous post on how to keep yourself safe, I felt it was only fitting that I also add a short piece on how you can recover from some data loss situations. First and foremost, I’ll re-iterate, BACKUP UP YOUR DATA! Look at this from a money point of view. The following … Read more
I still try and practice the art of photography occasionally and it’s really to keep me sane then it is to win anything, but occasionally I get notice for random things. I put some of my photos on flickr and this one here in DC has been included on a virtual guide. Not much, but … Read more
A few weeks ago, in purchasing a new phone and looking for the best deal on the internet, I was taken in by a phishing site. Additionally, Angela, my girlfriend in South Africa, left her USB thumb drive in a library and returned to find it missing. A few weeks later she was accosted by … Read more
My brother, who’ve I’ve only be back living with for 2 years now while we’ve both been in DC, is picking up to work in Burundi. He isn’t leaving till April 28th, but I guess it’s his turn to pack it up and go see the world. It sounds like it’s going to be just … Read more
Bloody christ they don’t make this easy to figure out. I’ve been trying to figure out how to approve a moderated post using the mailman email command-line interface after I just moved all my websites to a new hoster. I’ve used mailman before for work, but I realized I hate it! Way to techy, not … Read more
Bobby’s house is flapping in the wind. As one of the residents of New Orleans whose house was flooded by 3 breeches surrounding the Lower 9th Ward during Hurricane Katrina, she came back and paid 131,000 dollars for a house that’s a shell of completion. Her shell sits on 10 foot concrete stilts next to … Read more
This one’s is for anyone who’s reads their news from blogs or online content more then they do from newspapers. (it’s a bit technical in other words) I’ve become a fairly avid Google Reader fan as it’s a perfect way for me to get the new that is both interesting to me, thought provoking, and … Read more
At least once a day lately I am reminded how we live on a body based on several million years of randomly permutated designs that proved to be the most fit for the enviornment. Yet in most cases evolution was on a scale and of a term that no human has witnessed. In contrast our … Read more