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Monthly Archives: January 2012
1500 Miles in Virginia and North Carolina
Day 160 of 1000 On Monday and Tuesday last week I drove from Raleigh to Charlotte and back. On Wednesday I drove from Raleigh to Wilmington, NC to Elizabethtown, NC, and back to Ralieigh. On Thursday, the biggest day, I … Continue reading
Kelly is REALLY stepping up her blogging game
Day 158 of 1000 Inspired by fellow Oregonian stuck on the east coast, Smitty (his post this morning is stellar, CPAC-in’ Heat) and new-blogger Jon in Chile, Kelly and I have decided to try and up our game a little. … Continue reading
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Thursday in Roanoke while Lorena fights Microeconomics battles
Day 157 of 1000 I am scheduled to put over 1000 miles on the pick-up this week. This morning, I am writing from a McDonalds about a half an hour out of Roanoke, Virginia. My understanding is that I will … Continue reading
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Tagged Khan Academy, Linear Algebra, Machine Vision, Microeconomics, Roanoke
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Facebook is bad for people.
Day 156 of 1000 Imitating The Other McCain, I find myself blogging from a McDonalds this morning. I am on my way to Wilmington for a two hour visit for business. On the way, there was a radio report about … Continue reading
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Our buddy Jon’s new blog and another campus shutdown
Day 155 of 1000 Just a couple of notes today. First and most important, our buddy Jon from Chile has a new blog. You can find it here: http://www.jonchile.com. It is amazingly bilingual Spanish/English, fun to read and has great … Continue reading
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GaugeCam meeting on Saturday
Day 153 of 1000 The GaugeCam team met with Tom D. at NCSU yesterday to try to figure out how to commercialize our idea. We had a pretty good brainstorming session. All of us left the meeting with something to … Continue reading
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Kelly fired it back up
Day 152 of 1000 Kelly is drawing again! You can see it all here. This makes me happy. She is getting killed at school so we finally decided she did not have time to do a Betty Blonde comic strip … Continue reading
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Buying a new car
Day 151 of 1000 (207.3 lbs) We are all driving a LOT these days. I am working at least two days per week in Charlotte with some additional driving around the Carolinas and Virginia. Lorena and Christian drive about forty … Continue reading
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Life is good if you blog
Day 150 of 1000 A good buddy of mine who was hugely influential in my loving Mexico and Spanish so much is thinking about blogging about a big trip. That is a FABULOUS idea. It is especially fabulous right now … Continue reading
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Nerdhow
Day 149 of 1000 (209.8 lbs.) Note the weight!!! I thought I was going to get killed, but I am doing OK. The big news, though, is that Christian has started blogging again at his website Nerdhow.com (Nerdhow.net also works) … Continue reading
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Sports and Tim Tebow, not the same thing
Day 147 of 1000 I got into a big discussion with a good friend about sports this weekend. I was a sports fanatic until I went to college. In college, I was a Judo fanatic, but started to lose my … Continue reading
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Driving through the Carolinas
Day 146 of 1000 I have worked in my new job for a month now. It is (and will be) a crazy life for the next few months. We live a three hour drive from the main office, so I … Continue reading
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Blogging and weight loss for the new year.
Day 136 of 1000 (210.7 lbs.) I was dreading getting on the scale again this morning, but I think my battle with the flu might have helped me a little. Woo-hoo. I made it through the holiday season and am … Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
Day 132 of 1000 It seems right to worship God on Sunday morning as the first act of 2012.
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