March 22, 2004
Seeing More Red
Matt's provided a nice report of the trip to TheRed he, his brother, and I made Friday and Saturday. (3P3)
Was a blast. My mac has produced a multimedia extravaganza recording the event for history. (3P4)
The pictures that made that movie are at MattFirstRedThumb. I've updated ClimbTheRed with info and pictures gathered from this trip. (3P5)
Notable events: (3P6)
- Matt's first trip to TheRed (3P7)
- Matt's first lead (MrBungle) (3P8)
- Matt's first whipper (on ToDefyTheLawsOfTradition) (3P9)
- Lot's of good pizza (3PA)
- Much sick talk between rad dudes, bro. Yo? (3PB)
- I make a promising attempt at SeekTheTruth (3PC)
Three times so far this year. At this rate might actually get there as much as I want. (3PD)
March 15, 2004
Red River Gorge Climbing
I returned last night from a quick trip to TheRed with Gary, a genial fellow I met at HoosierHeights. We went down Friday night, climbed on a sunny Saturday and a rainy Sunday and returned home. A good and successful time was had. (3JI)
I've gathered up some photographs at TheRedSpringBreakContents. Thumbnails can be found at TheRedSpringBreakThumb. I've used those, plus pictures from a few previous trips (EarlySpringRedContents, last summer) to start a ClimbTheRed section which holds info about climbs in the Red River Gorge that I'll find useful so someone else may as well. (3JK)
This recent trip was a blast despite 17 degree temperatures Friday night (the ultralite thermarest doesn't really cut it in those temps) that left morning frost and ice on my tent. The cold forced me up early for a long day spent at LeftFlank where we climbed ToDefyTheLawsOfTradition, FaceUpToThatCrack, MrBungle and much to my surprise and enjoyment, WildYetTasty. (3JL)
We went then for a dusk cold-fingered dash up CreatureFeature over at PhanTasia followed by the required pizza at Miguel's. That evening's choice was: shrimp, artichoke, banana peppers, garlic, onion, black olives, mushrooms, and broccoli. (3JM)
One's choice of toppings is an important part of the TheRed experience. (3JN)
I woke the next day to cold rain. We had planned to go to TorrentFalls anyway, but the rain cinched it. Gary led a 5.8 that's not in the guidebook (UnknownTorrentFalls), and top roped WadCutter, BandoLier and PoopieHead?. I went up the 5.8 and then decided, despite feeling wishy-washy to lead BandoLier. I was ashamed of myself only top-roping WildYetTasty the day before so gave myself a kick. (3JO)
Glad I did. Got it clean on the first go. Prior attempts on previous trips had me swinging through the air. (3JP)
After that went around and flashed the tricky PoopieHead?. (3JQ)
And that the rain told us we wanted more pizza, so we returned to Miguel's. This time I had: shrimp, jalapeno, pineapple, garlic, black olives. (3JR)
And then home. (3JS)
Our trip was greatly improved by running into GregMartin?, a long time excellent climber who gave us loads of advice and encouragement. (3JT)
March 01, 2004
Conferences?
I've been asked by my employer to suggest a few conferences I might like to attend between now and August. I've not been following this year's conference opportunities so I'm not as aware of the opportunities as I could be. (3AF)
Does anyone have any suggestions? The following topical areas are probably relevant: (3AG)
- Collaboration (3AH)
- Knowledge Management (3AI)
- Knowledge representation, especially classification or categorization of documents in knowledge repositories (3AJ)
- Agile Methods (programmming, databases, management) (3AK)
- Perl or Java Programming (3AL)
- Web Services (3AM)
Given the budget that's probably being considered here, within the US or perhaps Canada is a constraint. (3AN)
Suggestions involving locations near stunning natural beauty get bonus points. (3AO)
Thanks. (3AP)
