My wonderful wife Nathalie surprised me this Christmas with a new computer! That makes it sound like so much more than it really is though… She gave me a Raspberry Pi, which is, by design, the most inexpensive fully functional computer ever, and maybe the smallest too. It really was an awesome gift though, because a true geek loves nothing like learning, and the Pi is the ultimate learning/teaching computer. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Winter Outdoors in Boulder
Looking south from South Boulder Peak
Winter in Boulder can be a very mixed bag. While it’s is possible to have 60° degree weather in January, it is just as likely to have a week, like last week, where the weather doesn’t get above 10°. Even when the weather is cold and it gets dark early, there are still a large number of people who commute by bike. I had one ride last week where is was 6° and I saw at least a half dozen people on the bike trails. When it that cold though, I don’t ride for exercise, I only ride because I hate driving that much. Continue reading
Inspiring Ingenuity 