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South Island adventuring, part four
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Lucy "Ate My Mate" Green, championship rally driver
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South Island adventuring, part three
The next leg of our holiday was another tramp: the Kepler Track. One of New Zealand’s Great Walks, the Kepler was created to relieve crowding on the nearby Milford and Routeburn tracks. Apparently it didn’t and instead became just one more popular Great Walk, with the distinct advantage of being easily accessible from Te Anau and a loop (loop tracks seem hard to come by in New Zealand). Unfortunately for us the storm system we saw coming in at the end of the Rees-Dart track struck Fiordland pretty hard over the first night and second day of this tramp, ushering in snow up to our knees and enough wind to make standing, let alone walking, next to impossible. In the end we turned back on the second day, stayed a second night at the Mt. Luxmore hut, and walked out and back in the reverse way to the Moturau Hut.
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South Island adventuring, part two
The second leg of our South Island vacation was a guided 3-day kayak trip on Doubtful Sound, a fjord (or fiord as they spell it here) in the south of Fiordland. Access to the fjord is by way of a water taxi across beautiful Lake Manapouri, just south of Te Anau, followed by a 4WD drive over a pass to Deep Cove.
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South Island adventuring, part one
Friends Don and Rebecca joined me, or perhaps the other way around, for a few weeks of roaming around the South Island. We left Wellington on a early morning ferry and hooned down to Glenorchy by way of Christchurch, Lake Tekapo, and Queenstown. We had a wild start actually, as I forgot one important bag (with food and some tramping gear) back at Cecile and William’s house. Lucky for us Cecile was kind enough to race down to the ferry terminal in under 15 minutes (still in her pajamas, with Minette by her side!) and bring me the bag. From there we drove all the way to Lake Tekapo, where we camped, and then drove all the next day to Glenorchy.
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#@$!#@* computers
Minette and I left Auckland on the 26th of March for a three week vacation to Wellington and the South Island. Late on the night of that very same day the hard drive on msqr.us died. Thus msqr.us has been dead for a few weeks. I guess I’m not too bad off since after the last time the hard drive crashed on msqr.us I implemented some more stringent backup procedures… but @#&^$!! what are the chances of that? It’s been less than 2 years since the last drive failure. At least the last drive had the decency to fail after I got back from vacation.
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Whangapoua weekend getaway
Our friends Don and Rebecca are currently travelling the world over 6 months for their honeymoon. They plan to spend about 6 weeks in New Zealand, so of course Minette and I want to show them a good time here. First outing: a weekend trip to the Coromandel Peninsula where we rented a super-flash bach.
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Players and Workers
And for something a bit more recent, I found this essay about politics as a game quit good.
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Underwater turbine converts tidal energy into electricity
I meant to post this article on underwater turbines ages ago (it’s about a year old by now). Sometimes it just take a while to get around to it, but it’s still relevant and quite a cool idea.
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Summer holidays
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msqr.geek.nz
msqr.us has finally migrated to New Zealand, too, as of about a week ago. Since Minette & I moved here msqr.us had been living at a friend’s office in San Francisco. It took about a week for it to fly from there to here, including time to clear customs. Everything went according to plan, and the only hiccup was the disruption of email service during that week.
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You lookin' at me?
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Good times with a mower in Edmonton
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36,000 year old timber
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Steamy Puritan romance
Recently I stumbled upon some old computer files, and ran across this one from a high school English class. The only reason I can think of for having to write this would be from assignment following the reading of The Scarlet Letter.
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Turdus merula
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Back in New Zealand
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Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!
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Toronto / Montréal photos
Minette and I just got back from a visit to Toronto and Montréal with family and friends. It was our first visit to Montréal and we both loved it. It was great seeing everyone before heading out to New Zealand (tomorrow!).
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