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Halloween

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

This actually has nothing at all to do with Halloween other than the time stamp on this picture. Took a little trip to Indiana Dunes State Park and captured this gorgeous industrial horizon sunset. Mmmmmmm… pollution!

Bags of Crap

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

This post is one of pride as well as shame. I purchased a “Bag of Crap” from Woot. For the uninitiated, Woot is a site that features one item (often techy) for sale every day, available until midnight central time or it (occasionally) sells out. Then, there is the Woot-Off… a multi day event where [...]

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 [...]

North Manitou Kayaking

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Last weekend I had a chance to add a new island to the kayaking repertoire. Doug, Callum and I had been to South Manitou a few years back. This time, Todd and Linda were making a quick trip to the North island. The trip was fist planned a week earlier, but weather wasn’t cooperating. On [...]

Mackinac Island Kayaking

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

First extended weekend of the year = first kayaking trip of the year. At least that’s the goal. With this in mind, on Tuesday, I put out a suggestion that I wanted to do some version of the Mackinaw City to Mackinac Island / Round Island trip. It’s short notice, I know, but that’s how [...]