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Mercator, sinusoidal, and stereographic: yawn. Myriahedral projections are where it's at. Computer graphics noodling at its finest...

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Details here: http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/myriahedral/

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I just got back from an eight-day trip to the island of Hawaii with Allison and my family. One of the things that I'd been wanting to do ever since I last visited the Big Island was to climb to the summit of Mauna Kea. The sheer novelty of tromping across snow in Hawaii and the world class astronomical observatory at the summit were the big ( Read more... )

I didn't want to try my luck at driving out to the mountains today, so it was another day of snowboarding the hills of Seattle. Too bad about the crust of freezing rain--I could have had some nice powder turns without that. Still fun though... I did 10 laps on Pike from 31st to MLK, repeated the 37th to Lake Washington run starting down Columbia, ( Read more... )

I've been waiting for this line to be in for almost 10 years:


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I headed up to Mt. Baker on Saturday night to be there for opening day on Sunday. I'm renting a ski house in Glacier with Adrianne, Josh, Chuck, and two other people, which makes Baker trips much easier than round tripping from Seattle in a day. I left Seattle around 5:30 and watched temperatures drop and road conditions deteriorate the further ( Read more... )

I got my very first running injury yesterday. The injured body part: my face. Ran straight into a parking sign while I was running along blissfully and obliviously, looking backward at... something. So if you see me, you'll know what the signpost-shaped red stripe is on the left side of my head. No witnesses, fortunately.

I finished the Seattle Half Marathon yesterday well off my target time of 1 hour 35 minutes. My final time was 1:48:05, 123rd out of 515 in my division, 859 of 7277 overall. I made the newbie mistake of starting out too fast and also underestimated the hills, the worst of which were cruelly placed in the second half of the course. Between mile 9 ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying the last few days of a trip to the Netherlands and Belgium. Here's a photo of Ghent, Belgium that I took last night after a snowfall:


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