News and Views

We’re going on a trip.
Wednesday morning Gisele and I leave for Taiwan where we will spend a week (and part of the Chinese New Year holiday) with Devon.
Then we go to Thailand for a week, where Gisele’s nephew is getting married. The wedding is on the resort island of Phuket, but we will also […]

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Devon was the main actor in a commercial for a new video game. The commercial was just filmed yesterday and won’t be published for a couple of months, but here’s a picture of him in costume.

I didn’t recognize him at first. He said it was just about the most fun he has ever […]

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Derek’s university, ASU, held a campus wide Cryptography contest, where the students competed to solve a series of ciphers, or codes.
40 students entered, and Derek and a partner took First Prize.
You can see a brief note on it here. Look for “Crypto Rally Recap” a couple of items down.
I have fun solving […]

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Here’s a graph showing the energy I’ve used since installing the solar panels two and a half weeks ago. The blue is energy I have bought from SRP, and the red is energy the solar panels have generated.
You can roughly infer the weather from looking at the graph. The sky has […]

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