Apparently the city of Redmond is knocking down the strip mall across the street from my condo and replacing it with a lovely park ( Read more... )

In mid-November, my PM at work came down with H1N1 the week before Supercomputing 2009. This led to me acting as substitute presenter in a Channel9 instructional video about my new feature: iSCSI Deployment in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta1 (or "How to efficiently run a large Windows cluster when your individual systems have no hard-disks", as I ( Read more... )

My trip to Peru was all kinds of fun! Many thanks to crazycrazy for initiating the trip with her 6 month tour of South America, and for generally being great company and knowing Spanish and such.

Rather than write a 8000 word blob about all the things we did, I will link to my four public Facebook albums that I have judiciously commented:
Cusco and the ( Read more... )

Vacation in June
Visiting Machu Picchu
In Peru, with Soo

Today was supposed to be my 5th and final running race of the year, but as I already posted, today's race was cancelled due to icy conditions. I did, however, pick up my race shirt and make it down to the gym for a less satisfying 12K simulation run ( Read more... )

I'm generally all for letting people do stupid/risky things, as long as the participants are willingly taking on all the risk. This morning, I was supposed to run the 12 Ks of Christmas in Kirkland. Unfortunately, it rained/snowed last night and was -2 Celsius this morning ( Read more... )

Last week, one of my absolute favourite blogs went on indefinite hiatus. I don't know if any of my Livejournal friends and readers would really get FIREJOEMORGAN.COM. I think prerequisites for enjoyment are: (1) You enjoy following professional sports; (2) You especially enjoy following professional baseball in an objective and nerdy way; (3) You ( Read more... )

Last week crazycrazy posted a tale of lamb woe and salvation. The post made me hungry and gave me a serious case of lamb-envy... so this weekend I did my own rack of lamb. Unfortunately I'm not so artistic at plating:

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After enjoying the FootZone 5K back in August, I decided to run in the Dawg Dash 10K (which was today). The Dawg Dash is an annual homecoming event at the University of Washington. West-coast UW's team mascot is the husky, hence the dog theme of the race. The event is totally dog-friendly, so there were lots of dogs running around and generally ( Read more... )