An olive tree, a fig tree and a girl who smiles at you and means it.
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Posted in Facebook, Journal, Livejournal on Jul 25th, 2010
Here in Ballard, my little studio is short walk to the Locks and the Puget Sound so along with the occasional gull, boat horn or allure of salt in the air, I occasionally enjoy a charming evening phenomena that other coastal people will probably recognize; an atmospheric changing of the guard. If the day has [...]
Posted in Facebook, LinkedIn, Livejournal, Outdoors, Reviews on Jul 23rd, 2010
Anyone that has seen my gear list know that I’m a pretty satisfied user of ultralight canister stoves. The combination of cleanliness, control and convenience usually meets my needs 9 times out of 10 when hiking and camping. I do have a strong admiration for the weight, design and ingenuity of many of the [...]
Posted in Facebook, LinkedIn, Livejournal, Technology on Jul 13th, 2010
Google Swirl is a beta search results interface that compliments Google Images. Instead of the standard grid of single level navigation, Swirls returns results in an “intuitive” tree interface that allows you to explore images matches based on visual and semantic similarities. It works best with fairly ambiguous terms because the beta only has about [...]
Posted in Facebook, Journal, LinkedIn, Livejournal, Outdoors on Jul 7th, 2010
Very sore and sunburned but I’m back. I had considered kayaking out to one of the islands in the Puget Sound but my lack of experience with tides and currents, as well as not really knowing my limits I decided for something a bit more modest. With the help of my sister, I put in [...]
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