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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The week goes on… and I am listening to the new album by Harvey Danger titled “Little by Little.” Even cooler you can listen to the whole album free as it was released via bittorrent. Of course you can go the old school route and buy it. Give it a listen, you don’t have anything [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Neil Gaiman in Cambridge, originally uploaded by spi516. Neil came to Cambridge as part of his Anansi Boy’s signing tour(as mentioned in his journal post). Neil read a few pages from [...]

Deerwood river, originally uploaded by spi516. So I am not on top of things, but last weekend I went kayaking on the Deerwood river in Western MA. We went on sit-on-top kayaks which are next to impossible to tip down class 1 and 2 rapids. So after getting used to running the kayak over rocks [...]