ydnar

Retirement?

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:00:33 -0800

Sometime before Flickr and Twitter scratched my lazy itch, I used to blog. Whole paragraphs! Structured sentences, posts with conclusions and enclosures! Double entendre! Exclamation points! Retirement’s been mostly a drag, just kidding. Yester...

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Costa Rica Trailer

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:05:06 -0700

945 photos taken. 945 photos to sort through. 500 Colones = 1 US Dollar (more or less). 14 hours flying. 7 days in Costa Rica. $26 to leave (honest! tax!) Zero internet. 562 unread emails. Not including spam. 20 photos taken underwater. 1 los...

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Good Holds

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:21:23 -0800

This weekend I learned to lead belay, rappel and climb on real rock. As other people have put it, climbing on plastic doesn't quite completely prepare you for the experience of hanging off the real thing. My friend Janet and I went to Pinnacles ...

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I Got High

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:31:31 -0700

Before the unfortunate incident with my foot I drove & hiked up to the top of Mauna Kea. This is kind of cool for two reasons: Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world, measured from the base (33,474 feet). At the summit is the largest c...

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Island WiFi

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:11:35 -0700

Found WiFi at a coffee place in Kailua. After trying a half-dozen seats in the place, one router restart and commiserating with a fellow also lacking internet, I was able to connect. Currently skirting Alamo's 30 minute grace period, 10 miles and ...

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If I was a Superstitious Person...

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:46:33 -0700

...I'd say the gash on my foot was because I violated a half-dozen kapu by taking photos and committing other generally annoying tourist shit on the mountain summit. But I'm not, so your angry god can stuff it. However, being an engineer subject ...

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Saturday Plans

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:22:49 -0700

Going up to the top of Muana Kea, more desolate landscape photos to come...

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Sunset

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:21:17 -0700

From the west coast of Hawaii (Big Island). Edit: Replaced broken photo.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:34:06 -0700

This one time in Japan, I was caught in a blizzard on top of a volcano in Kyushu, abandoned on a 70 mile bridge between Shikoku and Honshu and caught Scarlet Fever. Had I died it might have been a worse vacation. If you ever go to Japan, n...

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