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North Manitou GPS Track

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

GPS tracklog overlay. The above was made at GPS Visualizer. It makes some very nice plots, and has a lot of configuration options. The only downside is that because it’s all done through a web interface, there’s a lot of slow iterations to find the settings that work. In that sense, it would be nice [...]

Wind, Waves and Wine at Wilderness

Monday, October 5th, 2009

To me, the mark of waves getting big for surf is when there’s really no effort needed to catch them in a sea kayak. This happened often today – if I was not making a concerted effort to paddle out, the waves were going to surf me in. Josh and I both got a number of good, and thanks to the size of the waves, fast surfs.

Oh… It’s On

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Finally it’s OK for me to post about this since it’s been officially announced. I’ll tread lightly and not give any details beyond what has been formally released to these guys, but trust me, this is an awesome moment in Matt’s Life. Gizmodo: Dell Latitude with Wireless Charging Gizmodo: Leak showing the Latitude Z dseign.

Killington

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Michael and I arrived in VT in the late morning of Saturday, unloaded a bit of stuff into the condo and promptly started sleeping. Ideal case was that we would have been arriving sometime around 3AM and have had five or so hours to sleep. As it turns out, due to weather we didn’t leave [...]

Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Symposium ’08

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I just returned from the GLSKS up in Grand Marais, MI.  It was a highly successful weekend, as judged by me. Doug and Corrina headed up early Wednesday on Doug time – meaning they left about 1:00 in the afternoon.  I didn’t want to take the day off just for driving, so I headed up [...]