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I recently watched The Fog of War, which is a documentary about Robert McNamara. McNamara was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. He was appointed by Kennedy and fired by Johnson, with whom he clashed. McNamara, prior to being the Secretary of Defense, was the first president of the Ford Motor Company outside [...]

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A while back I bought a GPS receiver which I’ve been using on my monthly hikes so that I can geolocate the photos I take. That’s pretty fun, and the GPS itself is cool technology. I’ve also been geocaching, which is basically like a worldwide scavenger hunt where you use your GPSr to find “caches” [...]

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Just watched a fantastic film called A Map for Saturday (website). Well worth watching if you’ve traveled a bit, are planning to, or just like watching movies about travel. It’s a documentary that one dude shot while he traveled the world for a year. Basically chronicles the backpacker ethos and life on the road. Really [...]

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Relays for Life are happening all over the place this month. Ours is coming up this weekend. We’re hanging out with Amy’s former co-workers on Friday and Saturday. Tru will be camping with us and it oughta be super fun! If you’d like to contribute to our campaign, you can hit this page and drop [...]

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Good hike yesterday with Frodo. Though he hit the wall just a quarter mile from the car and I had to carry him. What a baby. Found two geocaches on the mountain, and one geodetic benchmark (the first I’ve recorded).
Here are the obligatory links:

Flickr set
Route on Google Maps
Route in Google Earth

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I’ve been still, as in ‘not running.’ I’ve been active though–hiked a mountain, did a 5k, did an adventure race. And I walk stairs instead of elevators when I get the chance. I’ve got a 5k coming up this Monday. I’m in L.A. (at a conference) and the weather’s been nice. The 5k will be [...]

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Amy, Asher, Truman and I are participating in this year’s Relay For Life with some of Amy’s coworkers. We’re aiming at raising $2,000 (our whole team, not just our little family). If you’d like to contribute, hit this page.
Don’t worry, I’ll remind you again later.

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This past weekend we went over to Redmond to hang out with our friends Troy and Ruth and their kids. A while back Troy invited me to run in a 5k called Heaven Can Wait. I thought that sounded cool so I registered online. A few days later Troy called back to see if I’d [...]

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