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 walked into town and ran into Stuart on a corner so we
went and had lunch. We walked into a place and the guy served us a mixed
plate of
food ...
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 Bosphorous I could see the old city of Istanbul. I
stopped and took some photos of the pool and the skyline.
I then went down to the lobby and Al ...
This is my humble home on the wide interweb. This site has a few interesting sections so spend some time looking around. I like to dabble around with web technology and computers in general so this site reflects that. Enjoy!
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Sometimes xkcd is too close to the truth.
So last.fm have announced they will be offering a streaming service in the near future which will allow users to play any given track whenever they want.
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
I hope that this ends up being a real step forward in a music subscription service. I want something like Rhapsody but with the ability to play the music on any computer or with just a web browser. Hopefully with DRM going the way of the dodo on music it seems like that has ...
-read more--read more-I'm walking in the desert land
I'm walking without a plan
The sun will rise stars will fall
- Michigan "Valley of Death"
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 ...
-read more-Robert Jordan died yesterday. This is sad. I haven't read the latest book in the series but I was looking forward to him finishing the series and being able to read the final chapter.
Back in the early 90s Jordan's Wheel of Time series was one of the first large fantasy series that I read. It really got me into the genre and started my long time obsession with WoT and the world created therein.
RIP Robert Jordan.
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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 is in the Quincy mine. Though this one is also in the room with the Hope diamond.
Anyway a long way to say that it reminded me that I will be up in the UP from August 2nd to the 5th. Let ...
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