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Betsy & Hope are off to “bag a president” (i.e. climb a mountain in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire). And true to form,their motto for the trip is: Go Big or Go Home
Ten Highest Peaks of the Presidential Range

Ten Highest Peaks

Rank
Peak Name
ft
m
Area

1.
Mount Washington
6288
1917
Mount Washington Massif

2.
Mount Adams
5774
1760
Northern Peaks

3.
Mount Jefferson
5712
1741
Northern Peaks

4.
Mount Clay
5533
1686
Northern Peaks

5.
Mount Monroe
5372
1637
Southern Peaks

6.
Mount […]

I’m posting this here so I have a place to point my cousin Jake Hodges. He gets the same kick out of driving racetracks as I do, but he does it in a real car. And I know he enjoys a good video game.
Jake, I love to race realistic sims as much as […]

My wife hikes the Palmetto Trail with her childhood friend. They call me “Compass” because I get on Google Earth and map out their route then download it into the GPS. The maps provided by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation have UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates, which are a whole other ballgame from Lat/Long.
After […]

or “Geeks are hard wired to one-up other geeks”
I suppose it would just illustrate my kinship with these souls to publish a formula from my hypothesis that “15 minutes of fame” is an outdated concept. Given that News 2.0 is presented on nearly ubiquitous media and is available on demand, the baseline fame “hang […]

Scott Adams is the author of the Dilbert cartoon series. He also writes a daily blog where, as near as I can tell, he tries to instigate people into vehemently attacking or defending some point of view in an argument that cannot be resolved. The topics he presents are often thought-provoking, and he […]

No.*
No: If you already have WinXP on a computer that is less than 3 years old, I’m a big fan of ftain’t bro’akded, do’an fuxut.
No, just buy a new PC: If you have WinXP on a PC that’s 3-5 years old and you think an upgrade to Vista will “make it run better” […]

Turns out there’s an iTunes US that sells music licensed in the US… and a different iTunes for Japan and, to take Kipling slightly out of context, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
It won’t surprise those of you who know how attuned I am to the 4 to […]

You won’t often find me using 1337speak, but I messed around with Line Rider when it first came out, and this is totally and completely over the top.

Yes, he used the “new” version and I only ever messed with the original… but it’s still very cool.

Jack’s 4th birthday was just a few days away, and we hadn’t gotten him a present yet. We knew there were going to be plenty of trains and cars and books and games, but I wanted to get him an honest to goodness toy.
Enter a metafilter post titled Birthday present for a 4 year […]

…or one person’s impatient survey of open source CMS-capable software that can be installed in my budget-hosted Microsoft Windows environment.

Long story short: after trying-on numerous CMS frameworks, like a bride at a discount wedding-dress warehouse sale, I found “Textpattern”:txp to be the one for me.