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Travel

The theory of relativity explained

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I called Amtrak to ask about the mysterious extra hour in the schedule, due to Daylight Savings Time ending, and the very nice lady I talked to said that the train actually does stop around 2 in the morning, and waits for time to catch up. So at 2 in […]

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Web

Please…do evil

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Google Blogoscoped Terms of Service: By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the general public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish and otherwise use, with or without attribution such Content on Google services […]

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Travel

Don’t mind me, just carry on as usual

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Different perspectives can cloud our perception of what each other is saying. For instance, Amtrak’s baggage rules state that I can take two “carry-on” bags, as well as a “personal” bag on to the train with me. I gnash my teeth and roll in ashes before putting on the sack […]

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Photography

That sucking sound you hear

…is me getting into the new toys at Flickr. Now you can print, have a book made, stamps, or burn a DVD of your photos. This, now, is a very, very good business model–something extremely tangible AND something made with Web 2.0 technologies. I feel so with it and ubber cool. Or is that über, cool. I’ve set […]

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Travel

The theory of relativity

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve long been fascinated by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity; the concept of curved space and our galaxy being a marble flowing down and around holes punched into the void via black holes and other objects we probably haven’t even imagined yet. Most particularly the concept of gravity and speed and […]