Imap is a welcome addition to email, and apple mails support is exciting. I am now pretty much plugged in, with my phone and laptop working in the same folders. For people with multiple computers, managing pop can be a drag, since anything on pc1 didn't get delivered to pc2. I had to disable autostart of a few email clients to ensure I was getting email on the road, or slog on over to the sweetest webmail around to check it there.
Pretty content with everything, now.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Arrived in Valdez
I'm at the Best Western Valdez Harbor, the bistro had real guinness in a bottle, not the guinness draft nonsense that passes for beer in the bars I've been to lately. Snow falling, and slush outside my door. I need to figure out how I'm getting to the college tomorrow. I'll probably need to call someone, or bribe the hotel shuttle into taking me across town.
In any case, no incidents with moose or wolverines to end my happy life.
In any case, no incidents with moose or wolverines to end my happy life.
Underestimated
Well, I got google maps for my blackberry now. It turns out that the
considerable icefield that's only 120 miles to fly over is an eight
and a half hour drive. I really hope the flight this afternoon isn't
cancelled. If its too rough to fly into valdez, how will it be to
drive 300 miles in the dark. If this is the last thing on this page,
and its after april second, assume a bull moose has scattered my
innards across the tundra.
considerable icefield that's only 120 miles to fly over is an eight
and a half hour drive. I really hope the flight this afternoon isn't
cancelled. If its too rough to fly into valdez, how will it be to
drive 300 miles in the dark. If this is the last thing on this page,
and its after april second, assume a bull moose has scattered my
innards across the tundra.
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Cancelled flight
Sitting in the anchorage airport, have a few hours free to get my
thoughts together. My flight to Valdez was cancelled for weather, and
I am waiting to see if they cancel my 5pm departure too. I guess
that'll give me a chance to drive a few miles of the frontier state.
thoughts together. My flight to Valdez was cancelled for weather, and
I am waiting to see if they cancel my 5pm departure too. I guess
that'll give me a chance to drive a few miles of the frontier state.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
New book
I spent a long long time at SFO on Thursday, and after reading all of this months Harper's Magazine (no I didn't even try the puzzle), I picked up the Great Upheaval, a history of the revolutions and counterrevolutions at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on Catherine the Great's Russia, Washington's America, and France from Louis XVI to Napoleon. Pretty good. I wish I had a paperback copy, Big hardcovers are hard to fit into my lifestyle.
A poem for pi day
Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
In sacred truth and rigid spelling
Numerical sprites elucidate
For me the lexicon's full weight
(from the comments on the BBC pi day story)
Tuppennyblue, Worcester, UK
In sacred truth and rigid spelling
Numerical sprites elucidate
For me the lexicon's full weight
(from the comments on the BBC pi day story)
Tuppennyblue, Worcester, UK
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