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Mo' travel
I survived the big conference in Vancouver that I had spent about a month and a half working 90 hours a week to prepare for. It was mostly to get rich folks who donate money to The Nature Conservancy more aware and excited about our work so they'll give us more, perhaps it was successful in that. Not too exciting, though. But I had a team ( Read more... ) -
A new dog!
On saturday we got a new dog! She's a 55 pound super-sweet rottweiler mix from a rescue agency who likes every person and every dog. Her name is Leeta, named after the star trek character, not to be confused with Leda, who got sexed up by a swan. Anyway, click the link for what I think are ( some pretty adorable pictures ) -
Today is not a good day
OK, to be fair, there were good times and an amazing amount of visits recently. In late July I went to Madison for a wedding and got to see some Mikes, a Molly, a moonrover, and other good people. Then I went straight from there San Diego for a GIS conference, got to stay with a good friend who I've known my entire life, plus met lots of ( Read more... ) -
God, I love the British
What other national newspaper can describe "a gold standard cock-up" in a story like it ain't no thing?
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A whirlwind of travel
I am home! In mid April I went to Costa Rica for work (a week-long meeting on data management and information systems); amusingly it was cheaper to fly and meet there than other cities we looked at in the US (in part b/c we had 2 people coming from costa rica and ecuador)! The meeting went incredibly well, and I had 4 days to explore and have fun ( Read more... ) -
fun with FM transmission
FM transmitters suck. But they suck a lot less, and even approach excellence with ( a few handy modifications ) -
worst christmas ever
I originally planned to write a longer update about Indonesia, but recent events have eclipsed the importance of that trip. On Thursday 12/20 our dog Chloe had to be hospitalized due to her kidney function sharply decreasing. She's had kidney problems for a while, but we were feeding her special foods, and Sarah was even giving her subcutaneous ( Read more... ) -
Some cool pics from Indonesia
I'm in Indonesia! While I'm currently neck deep in the usual 14+ hour days involved with a meeting (Asia-Pacific science conference for the nature conservancy), beforehand I got out to the Derawan Islands of the eastern coast of Borneo for a couple of days (I met with our local field staff and got to talk to them about what they were doing to ( Read more... )
