tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231316440327933282024-03-12T18:50:34.042-05:00Corbett's Ramblings...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-6870929746707194712013-01-05T19:10:00.000-06:002013-01-05T19:10:01.938-06:00Jen Can ShootBack in Dallas just before Christmas, Jen reluctantly tagged along with her father and I to go for a sporting clays session at <a href="http://www.elmfork.com/" target="_blank">Elm Fork</a>. She'd been shooting once before, years ago, and said that she didn't hit a single clay when she went.<div>
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Here is another picture, during actual shooting. She started shooting with her dad's Yildiz over/under, and switched to my Browning a few stands in (this was near the end). I've cropped the picture to show the shell being ejected from the gun (you can see the next shell in the process of loading as well; click on each picture for the full image):</div>
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My parents gave me a gift certificate for <a href="http://www.capitolclays.com/" target="_blank">Capitol City Trap & Skeet Club</a> (where Jen went on her previous time, years ago), so we'll have to both pay a visit there soon.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com2Elm Fork Shooting Sports, 10751 Luna Rd, Dallas, TX 75220, USA32.877956 -96.9266870000000155.5412459999999975 -138.23528100000001 60.214665999999994 -55.618093000000016tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-66663785322354385552012-01-25T18:01:00.001-06:002012-01-25T18:01:23.406-06:00Starting this morning: GWREWith an initial range of $10-$12, a price set at $13 on Tuesday, things kicked off this AM:<div>
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(Snagged from <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GWRE&ql=1" target="_blank">Yahoo Finance</a>)</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-79365170818033387992012-01-19T20:55:00.000-06:002012-01-19T20:56:29.605-06:00Hiking at Pace Bend: A Bit Turned AroundLast weekend, Jen and I decided to use the slower-than-normal weekend to set out on a hike in the Austin area. I have had a book sitting on the shelf for a few years, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/60-Hikes-Within-Miles-Antonio/dp/B0029IB07I/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327025933&sr=1-2" target="_blank">60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of San Antonio & Austin</a>, that we browsed through to find something close enough and long enough. Most of the hikes were too short (~3 miles), and some were a bit far away.<br />
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Pace Bend fit the bill, though: the route there was to be about 5 miles, and Pace Bend is relatively close to us. It is SW of Austin abutting Lake Travis. We're on the SW end of Austin as it is, so it was just a short (20-30 minute) drive west on 71 to get there.<br />
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The book includes a map of the intended hike. It did not show the full Pace Bend trail system, but rather a trace of the out-and-back route it wanted us to take. It had us taking Grisham Trail (one of the main park roads once you enter) to the trail head. From there, we memorized the basic left/left/right/left sort of sequence we'd need to take to stay on the path. We drove a bit farther than we expected, but eventually saw a sign that read 'TRAILHEAD' and saw a rough parking lot. It was mostly full of mountain bikers loading and unloading; there looks to be plenty of good singletrack there.<br />
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You can see the number marker on the post. When we drove into the park, the gate guard gave us a trail map. It has waypoints denoted by these numbers, but is pretty sparse otherwise; it doesn't label the trail segments by name (as you can see on this marker: 'Pack Trail' and 'North Quarry'). Jen thought the map must be wrong or out of date in some way, as she thought 'the numbers don't line up with the map'. We pressed on.<br />
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The early hiking was pretty rocky, but quickly transitioned into some nice shaded packed singletrack, akin to the easier parts of Walnut Creek. Despite a bit of rain in early winter, it's still pretty dry:<br />
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One problem: we made it to the trail head (going by the numbers)...but our car was not there. In fact, there was no parking lot, and no sign saying 'Southeast Trailhead'. We started to wonder if we'd interpreted the map completely wrong, if we were actually somewhere else on the map, and what direction we should head. After a while, the trails look like a never-ending maze of this:<br />
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Pretty, but a bit confusing if you're trying to figure out which direction to point yourself. We soon realized (we were pretty sure) our mistake: we HAD reached the SE Trailhead. However, we had not parked there...we must have passed that on our drive in somehow, and instead parked at the East or North trail head. The park map did not have the parking lot(s) labeled, so we had no way to know which of the two it really was. In any case, we thought our best bet was to head back to the SE Trailhead that we found and had earlier left (not being sure it really was where we should go, in our confusion). Grisham runs right by the SE Trailhead..so if we were where we now thought we were, we should just go to the road and walk along the road north. If we were right, we'd see the same things we saw on our drive in. <br />
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Sure enough...we started recognizing landmarks, and eventually the RV/improved campsite area that was shortly before the place we parked (which turned out to be the East Trailhead). The map below is marked up to show where we really entered, followed by all sorts of wandering around the spaghetti in the middle, and finally popping out on the bottom right of the map...only to walk along the road back to where we started.<br />
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Oops. Our guess is that we hiked 7 or maybe 8 miles, instead of the 5 we were expecting. Well, now we know for next time. It is somewhat understandable: the SE entrance has no parking lot and no sign of any kind, so I have no idea how we would have found that entrance from the car even if we knew to look for it. The East Trailhead was the first one with a sign and with somewhere to park the car. The trails did look great for biking, so we'll surely be back with our bikes next time...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0Pace Bend Park, 2011 N Pace Bend Rd, Spicewood, TX 78669, USA30.4596386 -98.019247130.4322641 -98.058729100000008 30.487013100000002 -97.9797651tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-54373567504322563592012-01-03T23:03:00.000-06:002012-01-03T23:05:07.365-06:00Too Many Lenses...Among my Christmas gifts, I received gift certificates towards some additional camera gear (it is for Adorama). With this money, I plan on picking up a new lens. The gift money would cover all of some of the options and leave me a bit short on some of them. However, if I have to kick in a bit extra to get what I decide is the 'right' choice, it's well worth it (and much cheaper than if I had to pay for the whole thing).<br />
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<li>The 70-200 is a very versatile focal length and the above is a fabulous lens that I'd love to own at some point. I rented (much cheaper, much ligher) the f/4 IS version for our <a href="http://klempay.zenfolio.com/f849511978" target="_blank">trip to the UK</a> this August from <a href="http://www.lensrentals.com/" target="_blank">LensRentals</a>. I borrowed Matt's original version of the 70-200 2.8 IS for our <a href="http://klempay.zenfolio.com/f785926115" target="_blank">honeymoon</a>.</li>
<li>I do not own a macro lens yet, and am interested in macro work. The IS present in the L version is supposed to be stellar, and it seems like it would make handheld shooting much more feasible; it would be nice to avoid having to relegate macro shots almost entirely to the tripod.</li>
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Santa did not bring any lenses (although he did bring some nice photography accessories, like a <a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/749827-REG/Vello_RC_C2_ShutterBoss_Timed_Remote_for.html" target="_blank">Vello ShutterBoss</a> and a <a href="http://www.adorama.com/INDPHT0.html" target="_blank">pan/tilt head</a> for my tripod), but he did bring these gift cards to use for photography equipment. I thought about the macro lens (as well as its 100mm non-IS, non-L little brother) and the Tamron, and the more I looked...the more I decided to nix the Tamron from contention. It seems that (aside from a few "this lens does EVERYTHING!" user reviews) most of the detailed reviews of this lens characterize it as of middling build/durability and good but not great optically. I think the LensRentals commentary best summarized it as a 'compromise lens', and that is probably to be expected in a not-very-expensive super (15x) zoom targeted at crop sensor cameras (of which my 7D is one, admittedly). I may actually end up using it, but I think I'd feel like I was 'being lazy' if I left it on, as opposed to bringing 2 or 3 better-performing lenses.</div>
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#1: The <a href="http://www.adorama.com/CA1022AFSU.html" target="_blank">Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM</a>. This lens seems to be universally well-reviewed, and seems a bit like my existing 17-55 2.8: L optics/internal construction without an L physical exterior build (or designation); I'm not sure Canon would ever label an EF-S lens an L, in any case.</div>
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The parts of its replacement came in today, ordered while we were still in the UK. This new rig should remain usable for a while. I expect I'll switch all of my Lightroom work over to it, along with my real work when I'm at home (meaning I'll probably be looking to set up some sort of simple syncing process between it and my work laptop, at least for a few directories). The pieces:<br />
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<li>OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB. I realize there are plenty of issue reports with the new second generation SandForce hardware, but it seems to be much improved with recent firmware..and should be tied up while I have this. The worry did drive me to the cheaper (albeit slower; half the channels) 120 GB version instead of the 240.</li>
<li>Seagate Barracuda XT 3 TB</li>
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I finished putting it all together since typing the above. It's speedy! The new case is definitely a cut above the Antec Sonata used in the old system; much easier to work on, much lighter (aluminum versus steel), and with better (versus nonexistent) cable management. The Seasonic power supply packaging was hilarious: the unit itself was inside of a velvet bag, sort of like a Crown Royal bottle!</div>
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A city monument, built and unfinished in late 1800s due to lack of funding.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, UK55.9501755 -3.187535955.8790505 -3.3454644 56.0213005 -3.0296073999999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-19698711887916204212011-08-16T03:39:00.000-05:002011-08-16T03:39:21.906-05:00Lake DistrictJen here! After Bath, we drove about 4 hours northwest to the Lake District, a national park area with a few very picturesque lakes. The roads were so narrow and lined with ancient stone walls -- we also we rented the biggest car in England -- so parts of the drive were a bit scary. Corbett did a great job though, and only slipped over to the wrong side of the road a few times. We stayed in a B&B in Barrow-in-Furness, leaving from there to ride an old steam train and take a cruise on Lake Windermere.<br />
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Hotel in Barrow-in-Furness (There were 2 weddings being held there, so we had good people watching.)</div>
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A mini-hike behind our hotel took us to ruins of an old church. This is the entry way.</div>
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Our ship over to Bowness, a cute little shopping tourist town. (I fell asleep on this 50 minute boat ride (anyone surprised?) and woke up to Corbett missing and a group of Asians sitting at my table staring at me.)</div>
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There were lots of people sailing on this beautiful lake.</div>
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Intersection in Bowness.</div>
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Many amazing houses and hotels along the coast.</div>
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The hotel in Bath. Awesome grounds and gardens. </div>
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Cool pub where we had a few drinks.</div>
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Park in Bath near Bath Abbey.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0Regent St, London, UK51.5120347 -0.13973251.5070937 -0.1496025 51.5169757 -0.1298615tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-23158794795939668842011-07-19T15:44:00.000-05:002011-07-19T15:44:24.973-05:00Circle C in TdFSomeone in the neighborhood cycling club was paying closer attention than I when this RoadID commercial played earlier in this year's Tour de France coverage:<br />
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If you watch the riders showing proper group riding technique, you'll see our neighborhood. They are clearly riding on Spruce Canyon for part of it (the stone walls) and Escarpment in others (the wood slat fencing). The ride past Nan Clayton Elementary adds a bit of extra confirmation!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-54904374313987619132011-04-28T12:02:00.001-05:002011-04-28T12:02:44.991-05:00Damn This Is AwesomeThis is Russ Roberts' second such video...the first was also good. I love how a totally made up 'economics joke rap' is >= musically a large portion of what passes as hip hop. The video is even better than the majority of videos for non-joke music too:<br />
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It's here: <a href="http://gosu-lang.org/">Gosu Community Release</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-59586785166905078972010-11-03T00:22:00.000-05:002010-11-03T00:22:04.040-05:00Nick is a BadassTechCrunch covers the formation of Tasty Labs, a new startup that Nick has co-founded: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/02/tasty-labs/">Hot Shot Vets From Google, Mozilla, Yahoo Cooking Up Stealth Treats At Tasty Labs</a></span><div><br />
</div><div>Not much info at <a href="http://www.tastylabs.com/">TastyLabs</a> yet, though.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-53989627601993700292010-08-05T13:12:00.001-05:002010-08-05T13:51:09.164-05:00Gosu: A Quick ThumbnailThis post probably only pertains to my fellow dorks. The language I end up writing nearly all of my work stuff in is not Java, but a Guidewire-developed language that is hosted within the JVM. Guidewire has plans to open source it, and just presented it in recent weeks at the <a href="http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Main_Page">JVM Language Summit</a> conference.<br /><br />The not-too-long slide deck that one of our developers used to present it at the conference is here: <a href="http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/9/97/McKinney-Gosu2.pdf">Introduction to Gosu</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614677675720419153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523131644032793328.post-50297415832568960872010-07-01T16:02:00.000-05:002011-07-19T16:03:06.714-05:00Our Overall RouteTo help visualize where all we went during our trip, Jen threw together this multi-destination map in Google Maps. She originally had in all of the places we stayed at night, but I added in a bunch of the places we hit during the day (to preempt a lot of the 'did you make it to xyz?' questions):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Near the main square in town; trams everywhere</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our new Croatian friend, bought us drinks! Lives in Lic.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">..other side of the same sign, entering Lic!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Fuzine cemetery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuzine cemetery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. George in Lic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Lic cemetery</td></tr>
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At this point, there was no way to get from Brac to Hvar that evening (we are talking about Saturday the 12th at this point). The taxi driver said that our options were to stay on Brac that night or possibly take a ferry to Split. Our next night (the 13th, the night I am typing this) was to be in Split anyway, so we thought we'd take that route. Unfortunately, the port we came into was not the port on Brac that services Split...the one that does (Supetar) is on the opposite side of the island. We had the driver take us all the way over to Supetar. From there, I called the place in Split (<a href="http://zephyrus.hr/home.html">Zephyrus</a>) that we were staying the night of the 13th, checking to see if they might have any availability on the 12th for us. They did. We boarded the next ferry out of Supetar (certain that we were headed to the right city this time!), getting into Split about 8:30 PM. We managed to make it to Zephyrus, and have been in Split since. I suppose we'll have to finally see Hvar the next time (there must be a next time!) we are over here..<br />
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The below pictures are mostly from Split during the day today, but some are from the long day of transit yesterday (Dubrovnik to Makarska by bus, then ferry to Brac, then ferry from Brac to Split). We have a 7:55 AM train in the morning (the 14th, it is a bit after midnight on the morning of the 14th as I type this) to Zagreb. From there, we immediately grab a rental car and head down to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%C5%BEine">Fuzine</a>, where half of Jen's family hails from.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the ferry from Brac to Split, trying a Magnum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tasty octopus salad at dinner tonight</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From our outside seat at dinner at Sperun tonight -- the sister cafe across the street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruins of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian's_Palace">Diocletian's Palace</a> in Split</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of our room in Split</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ana, our tour guide to Korcula. For Patrick.</td></tr>
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