Author: rihahn
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Lakeside
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Clinton came out to visit for a few days, and is a bit of a rollercoaster nut like I am – so I drug him over to Lakeside in Denver…
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The Nvidia Titan-X was released…
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About $1300 later and I have the world’s fastest (this week) video card on the way…
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The view from my evening walk…
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I’ve been wandering over to the local park of an evening to work on my Pokemon Go stuff – the park is a gym – and tonight got to see…
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Vacation Report…
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I’ve been back for a week now and feel rested enough to reflect on my week of financial recklessness in Las Vegas! Being as I spend so much time in…
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The Ten Year Countdown…
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My ‘retirement era’ has appeared on the distant horizon, and accordingly I have entered my ten year planning and setup phase for it. Yep, a decade of preparation; I don’t…
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Iridae sculpture
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The sculpture of Iridae I commissioned has arrived and immediately went into one of my glass doored bookshelves for safety. She was shipped in several pieces because of her size…
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Slightly inclement weather…
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The drive home today happened a bit earlier than usual due to the blizzard… It normally takes about 15 minutes to get from work to home – today it was…
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Happy Birthday to me…
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I did it again! 47 times now! In a row! That’s pretty good I think. 😀 And here’s an amazing picture a friend drew for the occasion:
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And they told us to tell you hello…
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We as a race have spent thousands of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there?” Wondering and hoping and guessing and imagining… Is this…
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2016…
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Annnnd – 2016. Feels amazingly like 2015. But 2015 felt amazingly like 2014 – and on and on. What I find fascinating is the time dilation; time goes faster as…
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The Christmas Spirit this year is Laphroaig
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My Christmas gift this year from one of my roommates. Very apropos. 🙂
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The Command Center
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As they do every year, the folks in chat were showing off pictures of their computers and desks in a “rate my space” sort of thing – and I played…
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Update and RP stuff…
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Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since my vacation, and I’ve finally gotten caught back up enough to take a weekend off. Vacations suck. In my scant free time…
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9/11 memories
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I was teaching CompSci at Marianapolis Prep in northern Connecticut in late 2001. I’d just come off a stint of working the Beltway in D.C. – specifically at the Pentagon…
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EQLA 2015 part two
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Friday night was a whirlwind with the friends I had there at the convention; Imperious, Cassius, Aurkae, and Marco, and two new folks from SL that I’d never met; “Grumpy”…
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EQLA 2015
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EQLA was, quite simply, illegal amounts of fun. Literally so much happened over the last three days I cannot actually write about it all – I’d be here for a…
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And the rest…
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I wasn’t exactly ‘prompt’ with keeping ye olde journal up to date here – I shall blame the presence of so many fun people creating so much fun stuff that…
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L.A. – day one…
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Well, yesterday was kind of rediculously fun. Anaheim is kind of an odd place in that even if you sleep in until 7am, you still can’t really do anything for…
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All my bags are packed, it’s time to go…
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At the airport to hop a flight to L.A… Tomorrow and Wednesday I’ll be at Disney, and for the first time in, well, forever I will actually get to see…
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Update…
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So let’s see here… In the last month I’ve tried a few new MMOs. This time around it was FFXIV, as I mentioned previously, in which I made it through…