First Impressions

“first impressions are the most important” is something I have heard all of my life. It is what many people hold to be a strong truth, but in placing so much in them, are we depriving ourselves of a greater understanding of the world? Every person is different and with a more loose social movement […]

Russian Gmail art

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/russian-gmail-art.html I saw this earlier on the GMail Blog (linked from my Inbox) and thought it was both humorous and a bit amazing that this could be done like this.

First Attempt at Rocktop Trail

Yesterday (February 29, 2008), I attempted a new trail, Rocktop. It is a 1.5 mile strenuous trail that is mostly upward with many hazards associated with mountain climbing. The trail is quite nice. On Pinnacle you can only see the mountain ahead of you and the trees that you have already passed, but on Rocktop […]

Elevation Profile of Hike

Now that I have had a little more time to play with the data obtained during my hike on Monday, I have found a few tools that will allow me to show interesting things from the tracklogs. One of my favorite things so far is the elevation profile, which shows the change in elevation during […]

Average Masturbation Per Week

Somehow someone ended up on my blog after searching Google for “average masturbation per week”. The answer wasn’t previously posted on my blog, but I became curious myself, so I did a little research. A survey of 10,000 males returned an average of 6.85 times per week for men between the ages of 20 and […]

A Hike To The Top

King’s Pinnacle I am a bit fatigued at the moment (woke at around 3am and then went for a hike), so I am just going to let the GPS explain everything: [click me]

Desire for Self Improvement

I have been sitting beside my bookshelf for the past hour while working on various things online, primarily taking care of some course related stuff. The bookshelf sits in this room, usually undisturbed unless I’m pulling something specific from it, usually for research or adding something to it, usually some book I will get to […]

Creating Suspicion in a Bot

I have had quite a bit of fun reading over the server log files for this blog over the past few days. My most frequent visitor has been GoogleBot. It would appear that the GoogleBot has noticed that the blog has changed and is now attempting to re-index the several hundred (1,077) pages of my […]