Friday, April 25th, 2008
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I’m heading over to ROFLcon in Cambridge now — bringing my laptop and camera, of course! Check back here for entries and pics throughout the day.
New entries will appear at the top of the page with events in reverse chronological order.
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
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I’m biking for The Hub On Wheels in two weeks and have been preparing for it. I’m only doing the 25-mile route as I have something to do that afternoon (XKCD meetup!), but I was curious if I am physically capable of biking the full 40-ish mile route. So just for kicks a few weeks ago I biked the entire Cape Cod rail trail, which is about 44 miles round-trip. I’m still amazed that I did it. I’ve never been an athletic person so when I shared this news with my family and friends, everybody was pretty impressed. So yes, I’m proud of this and wanted to share it with you all. (And here is the photographic journal of that day!) (more…)
Monday, June 11th, 2007
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The flickr greeting I received today was both unintentionally quite funny and a bit unnerving at the same time:
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Reaction #1 (too-cool-for-this neo-geek-hipster wanna-be snark): O RLY?
Reaction #2 (cripplingly self-conscious): is my greek so bad that flickr assumes i don’t even know how to say hello?
Reaction I should have had: How many Greeks wrote emails to flickr to get “yasou” on the international greetings banner? And how long will it take for a counter-reaction of Turks to mobilize and demand “merhaba”? ;)
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