Once upon a time, there was no valley, no ravine, no house, and no driveway. Between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, glaciers reached their maximum extent covering much of North America. As the glaciers melted, they formed a massive lake around 13,000 years ago called Lake Agassiz. Over roughly the next three thousand years this […]
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View this post on Instagram Light and shadow around this beautiful ship, which I’ve waited years to see A post shared by Colin Catlin (@colin_catlin) on Jun 2, 2019 at 6:17am PDT I wandered into Stockholm’s old town (‘Gamla Stan’) today. I had been wondering where the true tourist hordes would be, and well, here
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What is paradise? I do believe paradise would have lots of bikes, and lots of people riding them. Paradise would also weather suitable for athletic activity, cool but not cold. The sun would shine. Flowers and greenery would be in abundance. Splendid monuments would rise. The place would bustle, but it wouldn’t be busy. People
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I am going to take a quick break from my busy work at the farm (of remote data science work, farm and garden work, packing for my trip, unpacking from moving, cycling things, and more!) to discuss my thoughts on Game of Thrones Season 8. To get things started, my overall impression was: hmmm, good.
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How I Think, Usually My brain spends most of its time play Sudoku. Obviously, not Sudoku exactly, because that game gets boring quickly enough, but such a game on a large scale. My brain is all about taking what I know, and recombining pieces of that to draw conclusions, and so on ever building my
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It’s pretty much undeniable that this phase of the trip is far more photogenic than the previous stops. I landed in Christchurch on the sixth of January, and spent three days there, two of which I was working remotely. I then drove down to a farmstay a bit south of Twizel, and then the next
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Australia, as experienced by me in Sydney and Melbourne was a friendly, but unremarkable (and too hot!) of a place overall. Nice, but nice enough to return anytime soon, given the long and expensive flight. That was, until I headed out to the Blue Mountains, a two hour train ride west of Sydney. As the
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Sydney, Australia There is only one place in the world to be for New Year’s Eve, and that is Sydney. The city is packed and the popularity, no doubt, is largely due to Sydney being one of the most beautiful cities in the southern hemisphere. The temperatures, in the 80’s to 90’s F, are in
…is a place filled with heat and tourists. Through the shimmering waves of hot air, a dozen languages can be heard filling the busy streets of the central business district (CBD) or simply ‘the city’ as the locals call this part of the downtown. This city is perfect in many of the ways I love.
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Mortal Engines has been doing terribly in theaters. Which is sad, because this epic steampunk adventure is, if I may say, probably better than it’s competition -specifically Spiderman and Aquaman, if the trailers are any indication of them as yet more generic superhero films. Indeed, Mortal Engines has already made it onto my list of
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