Not usually very proud of my photography.  This one I like:

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Shaina and I drove from Las Vegas down to Boulder City (about fifteen miles) for a brunch.  Food was decent, not extraordinary.  The little downtown was cute, though.


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I estimated that I'd be in Las Vegas at 7pm if I hopped into the car at 8am, giving me two hours to explore Calico and one hour to explore Zzyzx.  I was off my an hour in two ways.  First, the drive with a stop in Calico and Zzyzx would get me into Vegas at 8pm (it's a solid nine-hour drive), and second I left at 9am.

To make up for time, I skipped ( Read more... )

 
2009.09.05 - Drive from Boulder Creek, CA to Las Vegas, NV with possible stops in Calico, CA (a ghost town) and Zzyzx, CA (a former native american site)

2009.09.06 - Drive from Las Vegas to Boulder City, NV for breakfast, and then on to Searchlight, NV and Cottonwood Cove, NV to explore. Return to Las Vegas. 
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I ran a server in my garage up through February, 2007.  I hosted Ricochet Robot and also a collection of  important photographs (primarily Raziel's first 17 months) on the server.  I planned well.  The server ran Gentoo.  It had three SCSI hard drives: one 18GB drive with the operating system, and two 36GB drives which were kept as a RAID mirror ( Read more... )

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A 2.1 quake just rolled through, epicentered six miles north.  Heather and I both heard it, but felt nothing.  Just a low rumbling.

I'm filthy!  I spent the day installing an irrigation system.  I drilled a 7/8" hole through 4" brick and got covered in brick dust.  I dug out the planter in order to feed the tube through the brick and got covered in dirt.  I ran 124 feet of that darn irrigation tubing, installed eighteen sprinkler heads, and got covered in dirt and then water.  ( Read more... )

Today, our federal government thought best to increase minimum wage from $6.55 to $7.25.  I think this is a bad idea, but, of course (because you know me...) not for the same reason that conventional conservatives think ( Read more... )

Okay, first off, I need to be clear here.  I'm a Google employee, however I'm writing this entry, this analysis, from the perspective of an observer.  These are not Google's words, they are mine.  The information I've used to come to these conclusions is all public.  If you're looking for some special, secret knowledge about Google, you're not ever ( Read more... )