This is the view from my balcony. My view of KAUST is optimistic, but for other people than me. The lab I want to work in won’t be up until 2011, so I am getting a one year masters and finding a PhD elsewhere. It is better than my friend who had the rug pulled [...]
Last night I watched the first two segments of Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America’s Greatest Idea and want to salute John Muir (pictured below). I admire him because he told President Theodore Roosevelt that he was full of himself on a private camping trip in Yosemite National Park and founded the Sierra Club. [...]
Parahawking is the most manly activity ever created. You hold two giant hawks – one in each hand – and use them to read thermals and go paragliding around mountains. Sure you could use thermal sensors or some more practical method. But it is a combination of falconry and paragliding. Tip of the hat to [...]