Technology
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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* 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
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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
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I'm bound for Park City Utah with Brendan, Anneka, Kenneth, Peter, Paul, and Dave (who I haven't met yet (or is it whom?)). The flight from ATL to SLC seems to take forever. So long that I was suckered into buying 90 minutes of Internet for
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A quick post from the slopes.
Technology
Woah - why didn't anyone tell me I could replace https:// or http:// with JUST // to preserve the protocol on the current page? I didn't know about it until I saw YouTube embed links using it. This is amazing news. I'll have to go through
Music
I had never heard of Conor Oberst or Bright Eyes before I became friends with Kristan. She was(still is) IN LOVE with the moody front man. I didn’t catch on until I started listening to some of his more energetic offerings recently. Let’s start with an example.
Music
Speaking of some old music. Here’s what came up on Spotify to pique my interest in Jawbreaker. There was something smart, haunting, and melodic about this that really grabbed me. It hasn’t been my day for a couple years. What’s a couple more?