I’m going to go turn off my TV, go outside, and hop on my bike now.
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Lately
I’ve been riding my bike. Threw in a century for fun. I’ve logged over 2000 miles this year already. I’ve been sitting on my back patio in the evenings reading books. I’ve been hanging out at the beach and drinking beer and trying my hand and stand up paddle boarding. We lit some fireworks and …
Some more about proton therapy
I finally got my hands on one of the brass apertures that was used for my proton radiation therapy. It took a few months for the radioactivity to decay to safe levels, and my parents were finally in the area and picked it up for me. That’s it on the right. It governed the shape …
I was in Alabama all last week for work, and now I’m out of sorts. It was my first real experience traveling for work, and though there weren’t really any big surprises, time went exponentially faster. After working all day, my computer remained off and I was oblivious to all the news stories enveloping the …
A gallery of identical roads on opposite sides of the world
A third industrial revolution
I was particularly intrigued by The Economist’s latest special feature about manufacturing and innovation. Not so much because they are reporting on anything that is so groundbreaking to me, or most engineers I would think, but because they gave exposure to the exact kind of thing I do – engineering custom solutions on the fly …
Yes! I am a long way from home
Pioneers! O Pioneers! (Walt Whitman) Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on …
Yosemite in a day
Waking up among almond trees in Oakdale, Mark and I rode too small bikes with too flat tires into town to pick up our rental car. It was sunny and bright and a little chilly but I can’t complain about riding bikes in California. We were early to pick up the car, so went around …
A brief summary of 24 hours in San Francisco
Our flight out of Chicago was delayed a few hours, but there are only so many $8 airport bar beers I can drink while waiting. I don’t travel by air that frequently, but I will say from now on, whenever I can, Virgin America is my new airline of choice. I’d flown Virgin Blue around …
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SB2K12
I finally got back from spring breaking in California at 3am this morning, so while I readjust to connected civilization and sort through the 600 or so pictures I took, here’s a sampling of Instagram pictures from the week. And now that Instagram is finally available on iOS and Android, consider following me if you want …