PTCHiker.com has posted instructions for building a really neat soda-can alcohol stove.
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Toxic Design Studio made this excellent video for a festival in Oslo.
(As Daniel said, “It’s a trap!”)
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I really love Ural 13 Diktator’s wonderful 80’s-style 8-bit “music video” for their song, “Name of the Game”.
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I find it mildly amusing that Microsoft chooses insect-related themes for their products. For example, the butterfly guy, and their new “resource for Windows community leaders”, which is called The Hive.
Does this mean Microsoft closely identifies with bugs?
Here’s how to set up syslogd on OSX to log base station activity.
Note that Tiger is a bit different, so you’ll need to refer to this other article.
I’ve posted my vacation pics here. Note there’s a “Part Two” and a “Part Three”.
I’ve been out in the desert for about a week, camping in Big Bend national park, and in the Davis mountains. it’s been very hot — at 109F in Study Butte.
We only saw two Western Diamondbacks, but since we didn’t have small game hunting licenses, we didn’t catch them. We justpicked them up, took their pictures, and tossed them off the roadside.
If you’re interested in learning more about the region, here’s a blog with a few more links: The Desert-Mountain Times.
I went on a 4 mile hike up in the Chisos Mountains on the weekend. It doesn’t sound like much, but it was like 4 miles of stairs, straight up. I’m also a fatass.
Monday was Carlsbad Caverns, which were amazing. I couldn’t do the whole tour because my legs were broken from the previous day’s hike, but the part I saw was fantastic. On the way, we ate at the Hotel Limpia in Fort Davis, TX, which has some of the best food you’ll find in that area.
We spent a lot of Tuesday driving to Concan, where we rafted down the Rio Frio on inner tubes. It was awesome — the water was a cool 60ºF, and the day was overcast but in the mid-90’s.
We started back Wednesday morning at around 7AM, and drove straight home. We got back to my dad’s at 2:30AM, and I got home today after noon.
Posting from vacation hot-spot (literally), Uvalde, TX.
We drove for about 18 hours. I’m going to bed.
Tomorrow’s for rafting and hiking and looking at dinosaur tracks.
