rumblestrip.org
Rumblestrip.org has been rebooted, AGAIN. Old stuff from nearly the beginnin of this blog, like from 2002 thru when I stopped actively posting around 2017, has been pulled out of an old database archive and refactored as Markdown files and dumped into a Jekyll site. I would like to add in old content that’s missing, and update the usual stuff, hobby pages and whatnot. The internet is a new place these days, as is this country. Lots to talk about.
Rumblestrip.org has been rebooted. Old stuff worth a damn will be resurrected. New stuff will emerge. There is no timeline.
This is the first of perhaps many posts about the last 26 hours I spent with my dog Hooper, which also turned out to be the last 26 hours Hooper had on this earth. It’s the only way I know how to deal with this numbness, this dull ache, this incalculable sense of loss I’m experiencing. - RPG
My first “big” adventure ride with the Tiger is in the books. My dear friend Rois was getting married in Gunnison, and Brenda wouldn’t be able to make it out due to work, so it made perfect sense to take the bike out there, and while there, do some riding and maybe even some camping, right?
Apparently, it all started two years ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but it’s also been a while since I’ve posted anything at all on this blog. Seems like as good a reason as any to get my narcissism on!
Well, our little Ellie passed away last night, the poor dear.
When simulating light transport with light-backwards raytracing, complex macro- or micro-geometry that obfuscates light sources – especially a small, intense light source such as the sun – generally cause the alrogithm to break down, leading to gross error.
After listening to Jersey girl Diane Sanfilippo at the gym this afternoon, I was all fired up to make something paleo. It was also kinda grey and cold outside, after a few spectacular sunny and warm days. I always think “chili” in times like these.
In case anyone is still out there, I just updated my blog again, agian, again. Again.
They’ve done it again; just when you thought you were fully Boulder Whole Foods Battle Hardened, these people manage to redefine solipsism. Lemme tell ya what happened.
f.Lux is a cool little utility that appeals to the lighting geek in me. What it does is adjusts the color temperature of your monitor or laptop screen, based on the time of day, “warming it up” at night and “cooling down” during the daytime, because it has been shown that looking at cool illuminants in the evening can screw up your circadian rhythm.
rumblestrip.org is now running on the Ghost platform. More later.
New camera, same pals.
I just signed up for an online class at Berkeley (Intro to Statistics). I’m pretty psyched, because I believe all card-carrying lib-ruhls are supposed to have studied “at” Berkeley. I’m also just interested to take part in the whole MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) revolution. Class doesn’t start ‘till January so I have time to lose interest in the whole thing.
You’d think that after seven years of living in Boulder, CO this shit wouldn’t faze me anymore, but, alas.
I recently read a righty editorial that suggested the notion that the massacre at Sandy Hook was the “price of freedom” – that the right of all American adults to own firearms is inherently going to make such massacres possible, even regular. And you know what? I totally get that. I agree. Problem is, I said the exact same thing about 9-11, in the context of the impending PATRIOT Act that was being rammed through Congress, which has stripped Americans of their right to privacy in the name of national security. I still believe that another major terrorist attack on our soil is the price of freedom. (And besides, even without the PATRIOT Act, Cheney – excuse me, Bush – had plenty of actionable intel that those scumbags were eminently planning something big, and they played golf instead, so, yeah.)
A friend of mine recently asked me to post a clarification to a comment on one of her Facebook posts. My friend had posted this piece about how climate change skeptics/denialists are so underrepresented in the scientific literature, and someone hit back with many of the standard denialist talking points, including such hits as: