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About the numbers on the scale
In 2010 I landed back in Utah, from gallivanting around the world. Spending a lot of time in Turkey, largely enjoying wandering around the Aegean Coast for the better part of a month. After spending enough time in the interior regions and backwaters I was happy to visit an area that was decidedly European. Familiar cultural trapping become ( Read more... ) -
Couldn't think of this one
Man, I'm terrible at these 100 day challenges ( Read more... ) -
Blah.
Mid summer blah on motivation to do, well, anything really.
Anyone who has thoughts about how to decrease blah state and restore some amount of motivation is greatly appriciated.
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A treatise on type of fun
Mountaineers and other outdoorsy people classify fun in three separate types.
Type 1 Fun: It's fun, it's stupid amounts of fun, you have a great time doing it, you have a great time thinking about it later.
Type 2 Fun: Not so much fun while it's going on, in fact, a fair amount of suffering is usually involved in the activity. But you think back on ( Read more... ) -
Why I love astrophysicists
from: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04342
Opening line:
"We construct a model which illustrates the conjecture of fuzzball complementarity."
My life is better knowing that "fuzzball complementarity" is, in fact, a legitimate scientific term. -
Two more days
Two days to Oregon. The legs are feeling ready for something, which is good and just in time. I don't expect results, I just expect to survive. If I like the course I'll work towards expecting results next year. Hoping I can garner some late season form to compete in the King of the Mountains competition in Capitol Reef. Though, admittedly, my ( Read more... ) -
The end of the world hard-drive
From an R Programmers QnA mailing list:
Q: I have 27 variables kai 146 observations. I want to make a contingency table for this data set but it doesn't work.
A: You could try being a little less greedy in your expectations.
Brief explanation: attempting to cross tab that many observations would result in the number of tabulations being 146 ( Read more... ) -
Maps!
Two entries! One day ( Read more... ) -
Complaint
The last couple days I wrote something. Then I attempted to add pictures to it. LJ didn't like it and erased my entry in the process. Probably user error in the mix, but their autosave feature doesn't exactly appear to be doing its job. As such, it's ended in a couple of days worth of frustration.Of course then there is exhaustion. Saturday ( Read more... ) -
Slow morning here.
Yesterday evening was eventful…ok, it really wasn’t. It was productive though! Based on iffy weather, I had two options - if it rains or rain becomes extremely eminent, ride a bike. Because riding in a downpour is actually a lot of fun. If it doesn’t then yard work ( Read more... )