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Wil Wheaton was in Boston last Sunday. He gave a reading at the Coolidge Corner Theater and signed books at the Brookline Booksmith. Wil is a very engaging performer and the talk was very lively with alot of banter and crowd interaction.
I was able to get a few pictures of the event(with my new Canon [...]

Along with DC/Baltimore, San Fran, and maybe Raleigh. In the month of July I will be flying into the glorious airport of CMX. I will be at my parents place on Lake Superior for the week of the 23rd to the 29th. I fly in late on the 21st and back out in the afternoon [...]

The mice army want a rematch. Last count is 1 to 0(spi vs mice). Saw the bugger running across our countertop earlier today. Oh the joys of a living in a new to me but old apartment.
I took the hammer but can’t quite do much with that… will have to resort to the trap.

What a nice day.
Though one of the disks in my raid array is acting up. I hate moving my computer.
cheating by back dating

So I traveled 350 odd miles in 6 days. Going 90 miles on my longest day.

The bike I bought was a Trek 520. It is made for touring and made me very happy. Had a nice time riding it across Oregon.
The passes were long
In the 90s so it was nice and hot and dry. Meltwater [...]

Snow! Not as much as the 20″+ of NY and CT but still got 14″ or so.

Following kottke and since this past year was actually interesting here is my 2005 in cities(or towns):
Boston, MA
Flint, MI
Syracuse, NY
Washington, DC
Houghton, MI
Minneapolis, MN
Sebeka, MN
Cedar Rapids, IA
Hamburg, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lund, Sweden
Jabel, Germany
Glastonbury, CT
I spent at least one night in each place at some point over this past year. Never got to the West coast something I plan [...]

Yes thundersnow. Boston had a nice snowstorm yesterday. We got about 6in10in of snow other places got up to 17in. Plus we got an added bonus a little bit of thunder and lightning.

Amin made it here safely even though his plane got hit by lightning and broke of a portion of the wing.
Then the T [...]

One cool thing with windows Live maps is that you can add pushpins onto the map. And then create a URL to always access that map. Plus it has Europe with some level of detail. More then any other service I have seen.
Check out a map of the route Paul and I took on our [...]

Last.fm makes it very easy to find out how I listen to music. By looking at my weekly charts you can easily tell that I listened to alot more music on my computer earlier this year when I was still in college. Since then I have spent alot less face time in front of my [...]