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Amsterdam Layover Excursion photoset Great Amsterdam Excursions Seven hour layover in Amsterdam Schiphol. At the transfer desk a friendly KLM representative tells us we have enough time to go see the city and still get back before boarding, plus it’s a nice day out. We decide to see if the excursions desk in the terminal […]
Work sent me to Atlanta last weekend for SMACSS and AWA12 at the GTRI Conference Center. Amy came along to see the High Art Museum and Botanical Garden while I workshopped and conferenced, and we both visited the Georgia Aquarium before heading home. While in Atlanta we stayed at the Midtown Artmore Hotel, a short […]
We went down to Lorton, VA a couple of Saturdays ago to check out the Workhouse Arts Center open house, but left earlier in the day to drop by Gunston Hall and Mason Neck. (The latter two, while technically not in Lorton, are close enough to be considered part of the area.) Gunston Hall, home […]
Fun Saturday. While Amy attended to some school tasks I went into town to meet up with mach5 from MeFi at Air and Space. But first, lunch at Ben’s Chili Bowl, my first time. (Yeah, I’ve lived around here for 10 years and never gone to Ben’s. That oversight has now been rectified.) Lunch: chili […]
We were in the Philippines for about a week and a half — in Metro Manila for Christmas, then in Coron, Busuanga after Christmas through New Year, and back in Metro Manila for a few more days onward.
I’m not a big fan of #newtwitter, partly because I don’t like client-side-scripting-heavy content delivery interfaces with hashbang URLs, and partly because the redesign still fails to address a long-standing problem with archiving. Old tweets are still not organized in any kind of list or dated format; there aren’t even next/previous buttons on individual tweets. […]
I suppose membership with Costco is an inevitable step in my ongoing Transition to Suburbia, and despite having lived in the USA for almost a decade now, trips to big box warehouse-type stores still hold an almost anthropological fascination for me, a cultural exploration of the types of consumables — and crafts-turned-consumables — that retailers […]
In early August 2011 I attended a NASA Tweetup at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for the launch of Juno, JPL’s new probe to Jupiter.
We went to Charlottesville in April to see Amy’s friend Heidi get married. I rarely go south of the DC area and was interested in seeing that part of historic Virginia, so this was something of an adventure.
(AKA “the wedding trip,” or “the shingles trip.” This entry backdated closer to the trip for posterity.) Full trip photoset on Flickr YouTube playlist of assorted videos In September of 2010 my brother Francis married his longtime girlfriend Ayna, over in the Philippines, so we took two weeks off from work to hop over to […]