take two...

This is a re-edited, "remixed" version of the video below (which isn't available anymore)... some new angles and shots, and with better music this time. enjoy!

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hike

The view north of Boulder looking East from a ridge above Left Hand Canyon.
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monday coffee...

I'm sipping my second coffee of the morning, or third and fourth shots of espresso if I'm honest. I'm distracted by thoughts of finding new apartments, whether or not they are suitable for dogs or gardens or bikes (ideally all three). It came up during a chance run-in between my housemate and landlord that we need to find a new place to live... my landlord is like that. I'm also distracted by thoughts of how to stay in Boulder for more than another year.. I should be done with my PhD by mid 2010 but I'm thinking I will probably want to stay for a little longer than that. Boulder seems to have this affect on many people, but I find that many are actually successful at finding more permanent residence here, despite the competitive job market. First things first, I still need to focus on writing (not blogging!)

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Wu-Tang Clan Downhill Vid

latest weekend outing... a weird riding location, actually an offroad vehicle area, and popular place to discharge firearms... note at the bottom of the ride I pass about ten people who are shooting. The top section is fun though... enjoy!

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more of the same...

More anaglyphs... this is of the new desk setup. I've now moved my office one floor up to the structure lab. Finally I have my own window. Even better is the fact that the window looks out onto the flat-irons, unlike my previous office that looked out on the exterior wall of the football stadium. In other news, I rode to work this morning (feb 5th) in a t-shirt, and I should be outside riding all day but no, I'm sitting at my desk. lame. enjoy my fascinating world of being chained-up in an academic cave, now in 3D!!

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time killer

a new 3D test... this was a bike of mine (had to sell it a while ago unfortunately) but as I was flipping through images on my computer I realized two images that were very close in their views of the bike but just different enough to offer a stereo view. By registering and then combining different channels of the two images, I made this anaglyph. This was just done with Photoshop, and is a pretty simple procedure given the proper base image pair. (View with standard red-blu 3D glasses)

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smokers beware...

A sign dissuading smokers from lighting up inside Java Joe's coffee shop...

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slidey-snow

The semester has officially begun, to the tune of 6 inches of fresh snow that fell overnight. I opted to drive in, and had one small bump with another car around a blind corner in the parking lot of the coffee shop I'm sitting in now. People all over town are driving like morons (this particular person slid into me, but we just barely kissed bumpers) so I'm hiding in the coffee shop across from campus that has comfy leather chairs and a fireplace. Thankfully there are no undergrads clogging the chairs, mostly because they don't have any work yet... but I can see that everyone in here is likely a graduate student or professor.

Distracting me from the sounds of two people next to me yammering on about something, is the Crystal Castles album that I just got turned onto... check them out:

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Forest Fires

Yesterday and last night North Boulder experienced a thousand-acre wild fire. Almost 11000 homes were evacuated, but only 4 structures burned. High winds (gusting to ~73mph, ~116kph) damaged electricity lines which started the fire, which was then spread rapidly in the windy conditions. Several ridge lines burned, and the fire was visible more than 20 miles away.

I drove around the town at about 9pm, stopping to photograph the fire from several different locations. NCAR (in south boulder) was a good place to watch from (and more than 5 miles away from the blaze), but the photos from Violet park (adjacent to the fire, in North Boulder) was better for detailed shots... the pic below was shot from there.



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another mindless video re-post

My brain is a bit frazzled at the moment and getting back into the swing of work is tough, so I'll just post this little teaser from the newly returned and reinvented redbull rampage contest.



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christmas tree

This tree mysteriously appeared in my house without my ever having to raise a bow-saw in a national forest. another pic will follow once it's decorated... but I like it bare at the moment.

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science blocks

Figures take forever!!!
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building blocks

Figures for a talk at AGU... these are the drafts, without any of the sciency-stuff on the edges of the block diagrams.

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back to work...

Ah, I'm finally done with teaching this semester... and not a moment too soon. The American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting is in one week and my presentation is 80 percent done, but that last 20 percent is pretty friggin' important. It's also the hardest, because it's the last 20 percent that makes the whole presentation work. It's taking me a while just to get back into my own research. Anyway, this week will be completely focused on finishing this presentation and trouble-shooting issues that some colleagues have brought up.

I am really looking forward to being back in San Fran...

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Winter!!

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today's

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seasonal

This morning Boulder awoke to a thin veneer of ice coating every leaf and blade exposed to the sky, looking like we had been attacked overnight by someone set on varnishing the earth. Actually this is quite a nice change from the 70 degree days we've been getting... not to say that 70 degree weather isn't nice, but it is currently November in Colorado. My chilly bike ride to work this morning, for which I swaddled myself in fleece and down whilst slurping my coffee with one hand, took me past the same cop who wrote me a citation yesterday. This morning he was writing another bike-commuter a citation... as I rode past and gave the other biker a knowing look, I raised my coffee cup to the officer and reiterated what he told me yesterday, "keep one hand on the bar!".

more importantly, I also rode past a blackberry stand that I stopped at and snapped this picture of. A nice image of what this season should really look like.

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Picture Rock

Be sure to watch the high-quality version on youtube (just click the video when it's playing)... this is shot over the last couple of days. Trail crews of volunteers built this trail with the guidance and support of BMA and IMBA, and Boulder OSMP.

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My living room...

This was my living room, as it appeared this afternoon. Ridiculous. The silver bike in the stand has a cracked frame (the downtube is cracked across the primary pivot mount) so all the parts are getting transferred to the SC Nomad in the background... it's about time anyway. My one roommate who doesn't really ride was sitting in the midst of this disarray this evening and said he thought it was 'pretty cool' when I apologized for the mess. For the rest of you riding fools, living in these conditions is so-so, but it's much better when you have a two-car garage for the 'fleet'.



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