Left as an Exercise

July 14, 2010

Cycle Tour Break: Hiking Excursion

Filed under: Personal, Travelogue — Tags: , , , — Brian D @ 2:29 pm

Because I promised I’d blog about this one…

This year, I’ve taken up cycle touring, trying to get enough exercise and experience in to consider a run to Vancouver next year. So far all I’ve managed to get in are weekend jaunts, which in general I quite enjoy. Last weekend, a small group and I did one such tour, designed to be an introduction to other new tourists, which turned out to be about a 90km ride followed by a 3km hike through the brush. It’s the third such jaunt I’ve done this year, but the first one I’ve done with a camera, and the first one I’ve had people ask me to blog, so…

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March 14, 2010

Obligatory Pi Day Remarks

Filed under: Commentary, Personal — Tags: — Brian D @ 8:02 pm

To all science-people (thanks for the heads-up, Steve!): Time variation of a fundamental dimensionless constant is a must-read example of… something. It’s certainly eye-opening.

To all non-science-people:

To all anti-science people (should any stumble upon this): Let me spell it out for you - the previous link was meant as satire. Though, given the cut-and-paste style of pseudoskepticism (illustrated wonderfully by Kate at ClimateSight and Nexus Six), it’d be interesting to try something similar and see if someone bites.

September 17, 2009

Your attention please

Filed under: admin — Tags: — Brian D @ 7:07 pm

I have reached level 25.

(The years go by more easily this way.)

That is all.

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