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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.

*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 last Friday I got a nice new toy. The Nokia n800 is a linux based
internet communicator. So far I really like it.
Here is Paul’s weather page.

Full screen

Regular mode

Just about two and a half weeks ago Amin, Bryan, I went to NYC to bum around for the weekend.

Went to the top of the Rockafeller center building.

Made a late night Times Square McDonalds run.

Found a nice bike.

Met a cool dude in the subway.

Found a Canada flag

Walked around Central Park.

Visited the NYPL
NYC Photo set

Moon + Venus

Originally uploaded by spi516.

Last night I just happened to look out my living room window just a little while after the sun went down. I saw this nice view of the Moon and Venus. Even though it was insanely cold I was able [...]

John Hodgman visited Brookline tonight and explained to the residents of the Boston area how Hoboes are close to taking over the world. Though most of them escaped to outer space after the great depression.

At least he had Jonathon Coulton along to sign accompanient and play his theme song, because every self respecting author should [...]

I am finally realizing the deficiency of the LCD on my camera to show me how the picture actually turned out. Guess that is a good reason to know even more about how to compose a picture.

Now that July is almost over I have finally used up almost all of my vacation for this year.
First I went to DC for an Iris show at Nation which was absolutely amazing.

My parents came into town for the end of the week. We walked around town and had supper at the Union Oyster House.

Holocaust [...]

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 [...]

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 the [...]