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This is the rescue light that I bought from the marine store in Maine. I plan on velcroing it to the helmet of the Ultimate Water Gun Mark II (Also known as project “gardaloo”. I just discovered that “Gardaloo” was the name of my grandfather Baldwin’s boat, after the phrase medieval maids were required to…

I’m back from Maine, where I was visiting my mom in Belfast. Belfast is a really cool town up towards the top of Penobscot Bay, on the Passagassawakeag river. Passagassa…? I guess flatulence was the theme of my trip. Anyhow, I did the following: Survived a ride in a small plane while the wind was…

In one work day, I go hiking twice, get lost five times, am rescued by fifty firefighters, and lose a contest for a suitcase full of sake. Read all about it. It’s almost seven-thirty in the morning, and I’m sitting at a workstation cubicle in terminal A of Boston’s Logan Airport. I’m on my way…

I went to a place that I didn’t even suspect existed until yesterday — Fry’s electronics, a chain of colossal big box stores that sell everything — everything — that a nerd could want. Dan Evander, a programmer at [A client], took me there with his dad (also named Dan Evander.) Ever been in one…

I’m in the Pointe Hilton Tapatio in Phoenix right now, on Official Agency Business. Phoenix is cool and dry tonight — about 40 degrees right now, and very pleasant. The same couldn’t be said for the plane ride, however. I was assigned to the aisle seat at the very back of the plane — the…

A sporting flutter on horrible media wickedness I saw the first episode of Survivor II: The Australian Outback on Sunday, and I was immediately hooked. (Maybe the fact that I didn’t see any of the shows from Survivor I contributed.) These people are awful! I tried to imaging going camping with any of them. With…

I went to a wedding in Maryland this weekend; Kate’s friend Karen Breame, who we both went to Westtown School with (though in different years), was marrying a guy who has a radio morning show in Maryland. There was an Episcopal service (Kate thinks that it’s a shame that churches have to be really explicit…

So, for some reason (Cubicle re-compression syndrome? Vacation carryover?) I’ve still got the hiking bug really badly. I read Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods on Monday (thanks, dad!), Dan Bruce’s Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker’s Handbook on Tuesday (thanks, mom!), and have been putting myself to sleep every night with 50 Hikes in the Adirondacks.…

Someone has taken my hint that Scriptural references to the Deluge in requests for the Ultimate Water Gun are more likely to be recieved favorably. Geoffrey Bab wants to take it to Orlando to overmaster fellow robotic engineers, and had this to say: “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high…

Hey hey! I’m back from vacation, and am a very different color. Vieques was great, the small plane rides to and from the island were safe (if bumpy), we were met by Sue Green, who manages my family’s house down there (the porch | the living room), Kate and I took a pontoon boat ride…