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Incunabula

March 21, 2008

Incunabula — pl., noun

extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.
The earliest stages or first traces of anything.

I happened upon the word while translating an obituary for the Count Gaston de Marchant d’Ansembourg, with whom my friend Patrick and I stayed several nights while backpacking Europe in […]

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Jackson Hole Video Clips

March 4, 2008

Here is the first video I’ve compiled from the trip to Jackson Hole. This one is not terribly exciting, it’s just the first run down the slopes which claimed one casualty among my crew.

At 9am it was overcast, but the clouds gave way to a nearly cloudless, sunny day, with a temperature near 30 […]

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Vacation Pics

September 27, 2007

I’ve posted a handful of pictures from Maine on my flickr account this morning. I took about 150 pictures in all, but I’ve only posted a handful of them at flickr.
This particular picture is towards the end of a pretty difficult (but not technical) climb up Mt. Dorr, in Acadia National Park.
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Vacation

September 15, 2007

By the time you are reading this, I’ll be somewhere between Detroit and Providence, RI.
This afternoon I’m off to sunny Maine for the better part of a week. I’ll be flying in to Providence, RI and driving up through Portland, visiting my cousin and her boyfriend for dinner and crashing there Saturday evening. […]

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