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The Return of the Airship 02/05/08: I used to think it was just me, but glancing through the Slashdot thread that led me to this article ...
After 1,000 years, Restored Viking Ship to… 07/27/07: "An 11th-century Viking longship that has been reconstructed to its original condition will soon depart on a seven-week voyage from ...
On The Other Ocean 07/23/07: Consider for a moment if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left. Imagine how this would complicate seemingly ...
07/14/07: Blue Whales are unusual this far south, but sure enough. It's a very very large animal. The only time I've ...
07/14/07: We followed him at about 30 meters for maybe ten minutes.
07/14/07: Spouting blue whale
07/13/07: The view from the back of the boat where we moor -- just north of the isthmus
07/13/07: Ideally this would be stitched together with the bast some, but it just didn't work.
07/13/07: The bow at twilight
07/12/07: The mast at twilight
07/12/07: None
07/11/07: I woke up the first morning and stuck my head out of the companionway and saw this sky.
07/11/07: None
07/11/07: None
07/10/07: Shipping vessels are big, fast and scary.
07/10/07: It looked quite foreboding when we left the harbor, but hey, at least there's wind.
07/10/07: None
07/10/07: The cockpit
07/10/07: My third cousins Dick and Bill checking out the Holoholo, as I believe the boat was called.
Historical Wrecks 06/18/07: Deep Blue Marine, a marine salvage company specializing in recovery of "important treasures and artifacts worldwide," launched a new non-profit ...

Filler:

I wasn't quite sure what to do with this space... I thought maybe I would plant a little tree or something, but there's already a little tree just above here. Maybe a watering hole, some sort of saloon. I dunno. Still working on it.

Recent Writings

Thursday
July 3, 2008

Tiny Cities Made of Ash The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems …
Monday
June 30, 2008

You Can't Go Home Again The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, …
Thursday
June 26, 2008

Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
Saturday
June 7, 2008

In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
Responsibilty and Living Well Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …

The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala: "Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most ...
Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real): Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...
Cross-Fade Anything: Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. Generic and handy (uses scriptalicious). [Update: This one had IE7 issues, ...