Swans on Tea

I was browsing the web and ran across this Gigapixel image of downtown Vancouver. I used to live there — not downtown, since my postdoc salary wouldn’t support that — but I opened it to see if I recognized the area. And I did, but not from when I lived there. [...]

Success!
The rough headcount for the Open House was about 9,000 visitors. This was the first one I had worked (there hadn’t been one of these since 2001) and the expectation from the earlier events was that we could get “a few thousand” people, so I’d have to say that we exceeded expectations. The [...]

The weather this past weekend was very nice, so both afternoons were spent geocaching. Some bushwacking required.

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Out geocaching this afternoon. First outing of the year where I did significant bushwhacking in shorts, so I have a start on a new set of scratches on my shins. And I landed hard jumping down from a bank while crossing a stream, so I have sore ankle too. Good times.
“Found it [...]

I went out geocaching in the wonderful weather today. First stop was to check on caches I have placed, in response to a couple of emails from people who couldn’t find them. Sure enough, they had been muggled. One cache almost completely gone — only the lid and the logbook could be [...]