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Jess and I at Acadia National Park in October

I can has bucket?

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Thor can has bucket

Saturday August 9th Near Gole Turkey
1:45:54 22.62/124.62 Av 12.8 Mx 22.4 Odo 1564.2
My cycle computer got reset again today. I am pretty sure it happened when I stopped in a town to buy ice cream. Unfortunately I had left my money in my pants in my day bag. As I explained that to the shop [...]

Saturday August 2nd Amaysa Turkey
Today was a rest day and it was very good. We had breakfast provided by the hotel. Then I went with Mike and Clive to visit the ruins that are in the hills surrounding Amaysa. Amaysa has been settled since 3500BC the caves where at times tombs and prisions. Then we [...]

Friday July 25th 1:55pm Haram Hotel Istanbul

After a 10 hour flight and a one hour cab ride I arrived at the hotel in Istanbul. I was immediately brought up to a room where I hung out for a little bit. From the hotel room I could see the hotel pool and looking out across the [...]

Today was the XKCD Dream Girl meetup in Cambridge.
I went it was fun. All kinds of XKCD geeks in one space. w00t!
The park was transformed:

Raptors were not allowed

Spiders showed up

The jungle gym was popular

Tape measures were used

Randall showed up

The comic was completed

Overall very fun.

off to the uk for a week and a half.
check twitter for any updates that might occur.
http://twitter.com/spi

*poke*
is this thing alive? I guess it has been a while. Though two months isn’t that horrible and with all of these new internet technologies people can still listen in.
Last weekend while in DC at the Museum of Natural History I saw this nice sized piece of copper

Reminded me of the huge piece that [...]

So after missing my first flight from BOS->DTW I got on the second plane to MI. Eventually made it to the penuicon hotel with only a few hours delay. So that wasn’t that shabby.
Met up with techieb0y, mary, jon787, and scott. We ran and got dinner and returned in time for a few talks that [...]

Penguicon cometh and I will be there.
Should be a blast it has been 3 years since I was last at Penguicon.
w00t!