After a couple of failed attempts at taking the kids to watch glassblowing, we stopped off at Pairpoint glassworks on our way off Cape Cod. Pretty cool stuff. While the kids only got to watch from windows located above the glassmaking area, visitors who scheduled a “Design your own witch ball” session were treated to …
Category Archives: Travel
Cape Cod: Kite Flying
At the end of July, the whole family spent 4 days on Cape Cod. I managed to squeeze in a bit of kite flying with one of our daughters. She’s flying her Uncle Christopher’s shark kite, and I’m flying a brand new parafoil 5. You might not be able to tell, but she got it …
Portable Programming Rig
I’ve been using a Macbook Air as my main computer for a couple of years now, and I’ve generally been happy with the setup. The only real shortcoming of the Air was attempting to program while on away from my home office (and the external monitor). There just isn’t enough screen real estate on a …
France 2009 photos
I finally got around to posting the photos from our trip to France on my Flickr photo stream. I didn’t bother editing the photos at all, otherwise I’d be posting them to the photo blog. Let me know which photos you like, and I’ll edit them for the photoblog. You can see them here. There …
In France
Kim and I have been in France for a day now. While we haven’t done much more than walk through the city in the evening; so far Paris is as lovely as I remember. I snapped a quick photo from the “Pont de Tuilleries” last night, that hopefully will show up along side this post …
Travel Gear: Normal
While I might spend a few days at a beach resort with just my lightweight travel kit, for work related trips a “full” laptop is necessary. So here’s my normal travel setup, which centers around a new Macbook Air, and support accessories. Clockwise from upper left: Macbook Air – I’ve spent most of the last …
Travel Gear: Ultralight
I love to travel, but I don’t like carrying a bunch of luggage. Unfortunately, the geek in me needs a few tools to make it through the day. In this first travel kit entry I’d like to present my choices for trips where computing isn’t meant to play a large role. When travelling to destinations …
Thanksgiving in New York
First order of business, “Miss I” is really named Kim. Since just about everyone now knows that we’re together, there’s little point in keeping the pretense up any longer. Fresh out of surgery and with staples still holding me together, we made the trip to Long Island, NY to have Thanksgiving with her family. All …
Tapia 2007
I’m just back from the 2007 Richard Tapia: Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference. I had a good time, and the weather in Orlando cooperated nicely. I met a lot of great people, found out about a bunch of post-graduate positions, and enjoyed several excellent presentations. Part of the conference included a backstage tour of …
Back in the U.S. of A.
I arrived back in the US thursday night after 22 hours of travel. I’ve managed to contract the flu, and I’m pretty useless at the moment. I’m going to be filling one or two more posts about the trip (appropriately back-dated) in the next 24-48 hours.