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Massive Belated Update
It occurs to me that I have not chronicled much of anything lately. I thought I'd at least try to hit some high points, mostly for my own life record. Please feel free to ignore, or
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Chocolate Party
Wow, I suck at updating this thing. Anyway, here are tasting notes from the chocolate party. My favorite was the Michel Cluizel Plantation Concepcion. Other nice surprises were the Taza 70%, Republica de Cacao (both provinces),Cafe Tasse,Dolfin,Tcho Chocolatey. Standby chocolates for me that held up well: Divine, Alter Eco, Kallari. Biggest ( Read more... ) -
Trip to Mexico City!
Sarah and I took a lovely 10-day trip to Mexico for our four-year anniversary. It was suitably awesome:
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Star Trek Party
By request for those who missed it on facebook, here are some pictures from the star trek party:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13829298@N00/tags/startrekparty/
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Birthday Culture Week!
In honor of turning 30, and having a ton of vacation time at work, I took a week to soak up art and culture in DC. The weekend before a friend came to visit, and we got some good Burmese and Ethiopian food, plus hit the natural history museum and botanic gardens ( Read more... ) -
New Conservation Data Resources!
I just got a new web map up to view some of The Nature Conservancy's public conservation data. The goal is to have something useful to both conservation staff and interesting to the general public. Note that this is not a comprehensive map, we're still working on collecting info internationally and verifying what's OK to share with the public (in ( Read more... ) -
WORMS!
I finally have started composting again, for the first time since I got my current condo and lost any convenient spot outdoors to stash food. Here it is pre-worms:
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Real Life Superheroes
So the release of Watchmen has me thinking about superheroes, which makes this a perfect time to link to the World Superhero Registry. These are actual people who actually (presumably) "fight crime" by patrolling the streets. There's a pretty interesting video about one such group here:
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Inauguration
So, inauguration was a pretty fantastic scene. I woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep, just anxiously replaying in my head all the plans to get there and back and backups and etc. Finally left the house at 6:15am with Sarah and her parents, and met Colleen at the bus stop. We made it to the mall in about 45 minutes, and it looked like ( Read more... )
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