Books, Maps, and more..

Codexmap is live. An interactive books/maps experience. The basic idea is finding books on an interactive Google Map, based on the setting(s) of the book. You can find it here: http://www.codexmap.com. You can read more about it here: http://www.codexmap.com/help.htm.

Here's a screenshot where I've navigated to the location "Sparta".

Enjoy!

Mt Monadnock

Climbed mt Monadnock with the scouts this weekend. Beautiful fall day although the leaves had not turned as much as I expected. Route up was pretty crowded (2nd most climbed mountain in the world....). Cool in the morning, 5 layers on. Halfway up, went down to one layer, it got pretty warm. Then on top, back down to ~35-40 degrees and 25mph winds - back on with the layers 8).

On the way down we took the Lost Farm trail, and saw almost nobody. Got buzzed by two WartHogs A-10s, came over the summit (<500 feet?!), gave us a barrel roll. Pictures here, route below.

And in viking news....

This. http://www.comcast.net/news/science/index.jsp?cat=SCIENCE&fn=/2007/09/10/759980.html&cvqh=geek_viking. Whoops.

What I'm listening to...

Who knew? Right in my back yard, Dispatch had a concert in Cambridge a few years back, that drew 100,000 people. Never had heard of them. I'm sitting in a nice restaurant in Gloucester (http://alchemybistro.com/) after wandering the harbor, and this really hypnotic music is on...it's Phish! No wait? It's Al Dimeola! (e.g. "Passerby") Who is this?? The server blandly informs me it's Dispatch. Never heard of 'em, but it's pretty good. Come home, talking to my son, he's like "Oh yeah. Check out State Radio. And check out this website: http://www.dispatchmusic.com/dispatch.html - you can listen to the whole thing"....nice. Now I just can't turn it off 8). And, strangely enough, an acoustic guitarist I admire (but who is not well known), Phil Keaggy, is playing Al Dimeola-like electric guitar with them live. Who knew?

Back from Philmont

Photos for now (http://picasaweb.google.com/troop63philmont/Philmont), journal entries to come.

headed to Philmont...

Leaving tomorrow (at 4:30am - ick!) to Philmont for 2 weeks in the backcountry!

Hingham to Scituate

Took a sail with my friend M- on the good ship Bella...from Hingham down to Scituate....12-15k winds, a fine sunny day, good food, good beer....all I had was my crappy cell phone camera, but... http://www.flickr.com/photos/40968444@N00/tags/scituate/ there are some shots anyway, plus a *very* rough map... http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=42.280357,-70.817184&spn=0.222514,0.462799&t=h&z=11&om=1&msid=107006297205264855906.00043657029a03cf530f2