I finally got around to scanning some pictures from the Red Green regatta last summer.

They are here: http://gchristopher.net/lj/rgr_07/red_green_07.html


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My karate groups do very little of the silly, but fun jumping and kicking techniques.

Hopefully some of the other people will be up to sneakily putting together a group to practice the silly, not-very-applicable things that we all secretly want to do in a movie.

At least until we all rack up new and different knee injuries, I guess.

What good is knowing how to defeat locks, climb, cover tracks, survive being attacked by men with knives and otherwise go where one is not expected, leaving no evidence, when I can't think of any new place to go? I now suspect that I grew up with a science fiction-inspired idea that I would be confronted with a dystopian megalopolis beneath which I ( Read more... )

Hey livejournal. I'm as bad at posting here as I am at correspondence ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day:

"The standards aren't there for a reason. They're there for a Cause." -Chris on operating procedures.

The show was pretty fantastic last night. The eclipse started during exceptional aurora, especially considering that we were sitting in our front yard, inside the city light radius. We watched until the middle of the full eclipse, counting four meteors! It was an amazing display and we temporarily vandalized one or two of the biggest light sources ( Read more... )

Amazon.com sometimes offers free extra-slow shipping. In Alaska, where shipping can cost more than the item, this is great. (For a computer case, it's extra great.) However, I strongly suspect they intentionally try to make distant customers lose hope of ever receiving the order so you'll cancel and buy something else with more profitable shipping ( Read more... )

The gym was closed, so we did our conditioning circuit drill outside this week. Since there was a hill handy, we tossed hill sprints into the mix. It was great*. Only two of us were still moving at the end, and I was as close to aerobic limits as I've been in a long time.

That is a rather large hill.

*great: adjective stupid, even for me

The Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars concert was pretty fantastic. The tracks I'd heard don't come close to capturing the live performance. Even though it was in a theater setting, people were dancing in the aisles. This stared mostly with high school students and spread from there. The band had a mix of quiet reserve and frenetic energy and ( Read more... )

It is an unusually excellent concert week for Fairbanks, a place that is normally as likely to be visited by good bands as Antarctica or the moon. This weekend (tomorrow!) we get to see the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, and next week, Matisyahu will be here ( Read more... )