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San Francisco Bound

I'll be in San Francisco starting Monday for a few days while I attend the Fluent conference. Looking forward to seeing all the old favorite places (or, at least the few I'll be able to get to in such limited time)!

Obligatory tourist photo:

Zoe Steals Home

Zoe Stealing Second

Fun softball season so far.

Signs of Spring

We're still dipping down into the 30° range at night, but we've finally had a steady week of non-rainy days in the 60s. It's energizing to see things greening up and getting out and about.

Skiing at Shawnee Peak

Perfect skiing weather yesterday...

 

Your Neighbor Totoro

Biking NYC

As I start digging around the back of my closet for my cold-weather riding gear, I think back to warmer riding days. Some photos of 30,000 bikes taking to the streets of NYC this summer.

Cryptozoology Class

Some images from a third-grade cryptozoology class assignment.

Mars Curiousity Rover & The Pulitzer Prize

NASA's Mars Curiousity Rover has sent many stunning and historic photographs back to us earthlings, which have been widely reprinted and reported on by the media. While they have garnered much praise, could they go so far as to secure the first-ever Pulitzer Prize won by a robot?

As it happens, I put this question to the Pulitzer folks in 2008. The answer - it's entirely possible we'll see the first Pulitzer win by a Robot-American this year:

" If the photos were published in a newspaper and ultimately chosen, we would have to figure out how to allocate or explicate credit," explained Sig Gissler, Pulitzer Prize administrator.

So who should get the credit? The engineers who built the robot? The camera subsystem programmers? The mission specialists? Or should the Curiousity Rover itself walk roll off with all the glory?

When the Mustaches Came To Town

When Mumford & Sons brought the Gentlemen of the Road tour to Maine a few weeks ago the whole town got into the spirit of their mustachioed tour theme. This included inanimate objects. Also the music was quite good. All my pics here.

 

Bonus: My best picture of a cupcake ever: