May day bike ride on Tioga Road

Self-portrait blocking the scenic mountains

On the weekend I found out that Tioga Road in Yosemite (which I knew had been completely plowed, but not yet open) was open to bikes. I did this ride last year (although 7 weeks later in the year) and enjoyed it enough to want to go again.

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Learning to program, again

I haven’t written a program since Pascal was in it’s heyday. I learned to program in FORTRAN, then picked up assembly language for a couple of different DEC mini-computers, and finally became fluent in Pascal. Notably, C is not a language I have used, nor is Unix/Linux an OS I’m really familiar with.

Learning a […]

Geocaching milestone

Thanks to a few days of caching in the desert, in particular the Planes, Trains, and Automobile series near Barstow, I’ve reached over 4,000 caches found.