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  • Forecast

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    OK it usually doesn't rain all day everyday, but not a very sun-shiny forecast. Winter in the PNW. Snow in the mountains though!' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:15pm EST
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  • Columbia Gorge Marathon saga

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    Since I've been meaning to write a post for over a week now to recap the columbia gorge marathon, well, here goes! This year, I really wanted to do a fall marathon. Since my MN days, running the twin cities a few times and chicago, I really wanted to get' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:41pm EST
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  • Probable

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    startOK, here are a couple of spain pics (bike related). we were there for almost 2 weeks and saw alot of other stuff (no bullfights), but seeing la Vuelta was pretty memorable.


    Here is [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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  • Day to Day

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    After a long lapse, I'm updating the blog. Since updating, we took a pretty sweet trip to Spain, which I hope to post a recap at some point. In short I'll just say that southern spain is a very arid landscape and the weather is hot. We saw the Vuelta
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 8:24pm EDT
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  • 2009 Vuelta a Espana - Stage 10 finish

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    It goes by pretty quick!!!

    here's Simon Gerrans winning stage 10 of LA VUELTA!

    ' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:48am EDT
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  • New poll.

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    Should Ryan keep updating this blog?


    No, twitter is good enough.
    No, delete the damn blog.
    Yes, but only if the posts are more frequent.
    Yes, and it's ok if there is only one post a month or less, and are about [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 12:30am EDT
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  • Summer

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    It's July, it's in the 90s, it must be time for... the Tour!
    So the Tour starts tomorrow!! Even though I'm excited for it, I'm not excited about some things. I was pretty excited for Astana, but that was before they left Christ Horner off the tour squad. You [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
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  • Pre classic

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    I had the opportunity to go to a professional track meet last sunday. The Pre-classic in Eugene is one of the best meets in the USA, in terms of the world class competition. There were no less than 34 Beijing Olympic medalists there... Here are some photos below. The rest [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
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  • RIP Sasha Clapper

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    We built one bad ass power supply (below), and a sweet electrolyzer. I met Sasha in Spring of 2008, when we were lab partners in Electrochemistry at OIT. The students in our program are diverse and Sasha was no exception. We're talking about a dude with neck tattoos, on' [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 12:56am EDT
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  • iPod charger for earth day

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    Not enough juice for the iPhone. [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 8:16pm EDT
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  • Power supply

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    School is keeping me busy, with Power Electronics, Heat transfer and Vector calculus. By far the most interesting is power electronics. Why? cause you get to build stuff. Lab 1 of power electronics, we built a power supply. Basically we took a PC power supply and took everything out except [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 1:23am EDT
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  • two wheeled awesomeness

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    thanks bro, via facebook [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 1:20am EDT
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  • do you have mac envy?

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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
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  • Whistler Olympic Park - trail report

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    Well, here we are, back in rainy Portland, after having spent some time up north previewing the Nordic venue for the 2010 Olympics in Whistler. We made it up to Vancouver last Saturday, before heading up to Whistler on the 99. They are totally expanding this road, which basically means [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 7:53pm EDT
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  • PC Free

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    Got rid of the old PC! If you want it, send me 65 dollars and I'll fed ex it to your door. (but it doesn't work, but the parts still hold at least 100 dollars of value on Ebay.

    This is the first post from the new mac mini, [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
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  • a funny one...

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    [www.youtube.com] [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 2:17pm EST
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  • The outlook...

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    So, the blog has been very, well... tired. With all the BSSN internet sites like twitter and facebook, the blog is getting neglected. and it's harder if not impossible to tap out a decent blog post on the iphone, and twitter is super easy, cause posts are short, so I' [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 11:11am EST
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  • Obama

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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 10:33am EST
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  • 2008 is gone

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    Just for the archives, here's the results... with most recent listed first.

    Autumn Leaves 50k, 3:40:14 (PR!)Vancouver fall 5m, 29:27CGRC Pumpkin Run 5m, 32:27McDonald forest 15k, 1:04:35Overlook park 3k XCTimberline 1/2, DNSPints to Pasta 10k, 37:34Twilight Crit, DNFOld River Ramble' [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 11:26pm EST
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  • School (half way point.)

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    First I have to say the weather has been great for the past 2 days. We're talking 50 degree-sunglasses days, of which, you don't get very many of here, during this time of year.

    On to the real blog entry: So, I'm about 1/2 way through my 2nd for-ray' [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 1:08am EST
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  • Big snow, still snowing

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    Posted: December 22, 2008, 10:25am EST
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  • at least a foot

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    Well,
    here we are in portland, with about a foot of snow!!! no kidding. We've been skiing in the streets for 2 days and the temps in the 20s.

    Imagine a foot of snow, and no snow plows, and that's what we have here. The roads [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2008, 11:34pm EST
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  • updatey

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    Here we are in Portland after a good dump of snow. Well in portland a good dump of snow is about 3 inches, and then sustained below freezing temps. This wouldn't have caused a traffic jam back in MN, but here they basically had I-5 shut down yesterday (unless you' [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2008, 4:10pm EST
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  • Autumn Leaves 50k

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    Race prep usually includes resting and hydrating and eating pasta. Some people are different, do different things... but usually those three things are pretty common. Well in Minnesota, I had many a race (mostly xc ski races) on the morning after watching a hockey game, and well, why not [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2008, 10:40pm EST
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  • I-84 EAST.

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    Well a tired Laurie made it to Thailand after a marathon flight plan that went from PDX to Tokyo (11 hrs), then from Tokyo to Bangkok (7 hrs), and then an 8 hour bus ride to Mae Sot, the site of the Op Smile mission. woah. Send her email [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2008, 5:17pm EST
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  • Happy Halloween

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    I will spare you the spam email, and simply ask you to click this link for a laugh.

    [tinyurl.com]

    Thanks Sean.

    and, for what it's worth, i already voted by mail, because that's what they do in Oregon.

    As for other comments on the whole [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2008, 12:52am EDT
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  • Finally

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    A blog post!

    Well it's been a while since I updated, and I guess that's because not much exciting has been going on. It's been real nice fall here in Portland, the leaves are turned. It's been mostly rain free, except for a day here and there, and lets [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 10:13pm EDT
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  • the break in review

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    Six weeks off, well sorta. I still managed to work under 20 hours per week so it wasn't complete off time, if you know what I mean. The spirits are high and the future looks good, despite continued possible world financial melt down and eminent government bail out. The break' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 8:23pm EDT
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  • P2P

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    Battled through a strong chest cold for days, I didn't know how I would feel, but I felt good enough to run the pints to pasta 10k. The name implies there's pints at the start and pasta at the finish, but that's not quite accurate. Both are at the end' [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 4:04pm EDT
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  • Time to get in shape

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    Posted: September 06, 2008, 10:25pm EDT
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  • Joe Nathan

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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 7:16pm EDT
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  • Eddie G

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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 6:59pm EDT
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  • 1st pitch

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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 4:41pm EDT
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  • Hydrogen fuel cell

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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 11:38am EDT
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  • iRyan

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    Well, it took about one week into summer-vacation, and gadget fever overcame me. Got an iPhone!!! What does that mean for the blog? More photos! woo hoo. I also got a new phone number: -5.0.3-7.0.3-3.5.4.7-

    We're headed to MN this week, for the holiday weekend.

    then it's [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2008, 1:31pm EDT
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  • Twilight Crit

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    In the midst of finals week, writing a race report:

    8.8.08, portland twilight criterium sponsored by healthnet; cat 3, $3000 at stake.

    It was a perfect example of an American criterium: short technical 800 meter loop, bumpy, L shape around downtown Portland city blocks.

    The race started. [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2008, 7:55pm EDT
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  • Big Day, plus news, etc. (long post)

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    Here I am, back in the blog-o-sphere, and taking a time out to update the world on everything going on out here. Today was all-in-all a decent day. Still have next week with 4 final exams, 2 presentations / demonstrations, but today was big progress.

    This summer I'm taking' [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 12:23am EDT
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  • Breaking News...

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    This must be a record for new blog posts for me... What is this like 3 in a week? The news today was just too important not to pass on. I just saw on Velonews that old friend and current pro bike racer (in Europe) Kori Seehafer (was Kori Kelly) [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 8:08pm EDT
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  • Peak oil for fun and profit

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    More great videos from the internets.

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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 11:42am EDT
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  • Tour

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    Here's to the Bjarne Riis tour drama! As evel put it: Riis should have just come out of retirement and won the tour himself. In any case, Sastre seems like a nice guy, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for Cadel (see multiple Youtube's [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2008, 12:42am EDT
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  • Matt Simmons

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    Note the 'deer in headlights' look of the idiot anchor people, after some of the comments Simmons makes...



    Get used to high oil, etc. [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 11:48am EDT
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  • Status Update

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    Went to Montana for a week during the break between spring and summer term. It was fun, check out the photos (see flickr feed). Saw a real live, wild black bear. It was exciting. Also spent some time in the beautiful Hamilton area in the bitteroot valley. Pretty awesome.

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    Posted: June 27, 2008, 8:12pm EDT
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  • Don't call it a comeback

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    Ran the 3rd event of the year last Saturday, 5k starlight run. It was pretty fun running along the parade route (right before the parade). Lots of people running & watching, but this race is more known for a quite substantial costume contest. It was quite a scene. For a [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 12:56am EDT
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  • Old river ramble

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    Well, I got back into the scene today with a 10k in West Linn called the old river ramble. I have not been racing much and certainly not training for any racing but when the race number gets pinned on, all bets are off. But expectations were low (but Sub [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 12:24am EDT
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  • Electrolysis

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    School is about it these days. Still have a job, and that tends to get in the way of academics, which seems to be the priority these days. Still running, but the race schedule is a bit up in the air right now. Some good experiments going on in electro-chemistry. [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 9:19pm EDT
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  • Gas price

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    I know it's pretty high historically speaking, and everyone (radio, TV, sidewalk, etc) is talking about it, but I've been keeping track since sept. 2005, and here's the history at least here in Oregon, at least what we paid. I also have fuel mileage numbers, but that's another post.

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    Posted: April 23, 2008, 9:59pm EDT
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  • peak hockey

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    NHL Playoffs are here. It will be a while before they're over, and we'll wonder why the season is so long during the finals, but they start tomorrow and I have to get my predictions in.

    Last year I predicted every series in round one, and I didn't get [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2008, 8:28pm EDT
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  • Presidential Encounter (sort of)

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    The place where I work had the former president [William 'Bill' Clinton] come by for a campaign speech. It [the speech] was at 9:30am, and I had to work from 7:30am-11am and since it was the first day back [at work] after being off all week, I couldn't really get [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2008, 7:16pm EDT
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  • NY Times

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    Nice read here.

    We're back from NW Washington.

    Rode the ferry to Orcas Is.

    Been there done that.

    Caught the wild game Sat. night (hockey night) on CBC tv from Canada! [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2008, 8:05pm EDT
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  • 2 down 1.5 to go

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    Two finals done yesterday. 1 more Wednesday evening, but not before circuits II lab presentation at 1pm. We're not exactly making any new discoveries (yet anyway), but we did manage to build a mini transformer with an iron ring and some wire. It even worked. Pretty damn awesome. The presentation [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2008, 1:03am EDT
    by RNess
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