Archive for the ‘travel’ Category
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Because my new poster gets to go to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's EvoStar Evolutionary Computation conference without me. I just shipped it off this morning.
Combining puzzle-making with biologically-inspired computer algorithms. Because life isn't already crazy enough.
Click the above image to see the large version of ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Yay! Raeford Parachute Center finally sent my skydiving video!
You can read about the experience here.
Posted in family, people, queasy, travel | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
I'm scheduled to report to the skydiving facility at 10:00AM. A solid, low bank of clouds covers the entire sky. The call comes in at 8:30AM.
"The weather is looking bad today. Do you mind rescheduling your tandem skydive?"
"No problem. How does tomorrow morning sound?"
"That's ...
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
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We recently took a vacation at Disney World. I was determined to get a decent camera before the trip, so I snagged a Canon EOS Rebel XS, an entry-level DSLR camera. The consequence of this is that I took way too many photographs during our trip:
Disney ...
Posted in family, photography, travel | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Thanks to Google Maps, we know that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has an awesome swimming pool, complete with a bitchin' water slide:
(click to see it on Google Maps)
But Google Maps also shows us the cost of excess.
(click to see it on Google Maps)
This is a very small sampling of ...
Posted in bizarre, defense, news, pain, politics, travel | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 25th, 2008
"But only that morning, Lama Tashi had told us about his first encounter with a watch in Tibet. He'd never seen one before when a friend came by with a wristwatch he'd just bought from a trader. "It's wonderful," the friend said. "You wind it up and it will tell ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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Article sections: Atlanta | GECCO 2008 | Contests | Research
Atlanta
The Atlanta trip was a lot of fun. We stayed in a really nice rental house ...
Posted in computing, defense, food, math, people, science, tech, toys, travel, zodiac | 6 Comments »
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I've finally finished my crazy Zodiac cipher poster for GECCO 2008 in Atlanta next week:
Click image for biggie size, or get the PDF version. And here's the 2-page paper if you want it.
Last year, I used PowerPoint (gasp) to create the poster. What a huge pain that was. ...
Posted in computing, science, tech, travel, zodiac | 5 Comments »
Friday, May 16th, 2008
I have finally finished uploading our Vegas trip photos to Flickr. Check them out via the links below:
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
Kathryn and I didn't expect to enjoy Vegas as much as we did. And we ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Our Vegas trip went well and is best summarized by this video:
Vegas trip video. The panhandler's sign at the beginning is hard to read; it says: "Why lie? I need a beer."
(youtube link)
A larger high-quality version in M4V (MP4) format is here: http://oranchak.com/vegas-large.m4v (it's about 280M).
The trip ...
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