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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Thanks to Heather Rowles I started reading the EXCEPTIONALLY AWESOME Daughter of Smoke & Bone series by Laini Taylor. This book is classified as Young Adult Fiction but I don’t know if that’s fair. I heard a comedian (Colbert?) say “Young Adult is just a term for books that people ACTUALLY read.” That seems about right to…
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OpenID Connect
At work I’ve been doing a ton of Single Sign On, SAML, and certificate based authentication. I wanted to try that out for my own personal use. It turned out to be much easier than I expected. I’ve already blogged here about updating my site certificates using StartCom SSL. Another free service they offer is…
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Audio Books
Last week I read “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow. The overall story was a good read. There were some bits that were mostly the author writing some exposition on a piece of tech he was interested in. The thing that made it hardest to read was the brutal treatment the protagonist received at the hands of…
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Plane Travel Plus Kindle
I think one of my favorite parts of the Park City trip was the new FAA regulations on portable electronic devices. We took Delta and were instructed that we could use our portable electronic devices during all phases of flight. I used my Kindle Paperwhite to read the HELL out of Caliban’s War which is the…
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Canyons – Day 6
Day 6 after a short Cross Country interlude was our final day boarding in Utah. We decided to mix it up and head over to Canyons. The weather forecast was SNOW all day (up to 10 inches) and there was already 4 inches on the ground. Park City was effortless for buying tickets but Canyons…
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Park City – Day 5
Day 5 started out super lazy. We were gonna go to Canyons but the group consensus was to do nothing at all for a while. The day off included a ton of computer time… Then we decided why not go cross country skiing?! We rented skis and boots and did a 5k around the golf…
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Park City – Day 4
Day 4 of Park City gave us a few more inches of snow. This day was completely dedicated to Adventure Alley runs. We completed all of the Adventure Alley runs on the mountain! Each one is demarcated by a little metal monster. I put together a string of runs during breakfast and then we went…
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Park City – Day 3
Day 3 of Park City brought us a few inches of snow! We started right as the lifts opened up (or just a few minutes behind) and headed straight to the Powder Monkey “Adventure Alley” section on the back side of the mountain. This is a tree filled gully full of little dips and whoops that…
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Park City – Day 2
Binding repair Falling in the lift line (me plus new bindings) Fast runs A run that lasted for miles Sunny skies Powder Monkey tree run via super high lift Lunch break Anneka learning to ski backwards and crashing into a 30 foot wide bright orange Slow Zone barrier in the beginner zone. Outside beers Freezing…
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Park City – Day 1
Day 1 in Park City was excellent. The sun was shining, there had been a touch of snow the day before, and we set out to explore the mountain. We got a bit of a late start because the trip felt very last minute for a lot of people. We needed the morning half of…