This 39 minute video is giving me some itchy travel feet: Temporary Story from Vadim Sahakian on Vimeo.The idea was to road trip from Alaska to Los Angeles, explore Southern and Central Africa, and tour South America on dirt bikes.
Author Archives: Chris Nelson
The Case of the Missing Ancestor – The Denisovans
National Geographic has a great article on the discovery and further research related to our cousins the Denisovans. Everyone knows about the Neandarthals, and at this point I think most people know that large portions humans living today have some percentage of Neanderthal DNA. I was completely in the dark about the prospect of another …
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Unrest in Turkey
It has been interesting to watch the ongoing strife and turmoil that has been shaking Turkey. We were there for two weeks in March & April and had a chance to speak with a number of people in different locations. To a certain extent it has been hard to reconcile the strength of reaction given …
Backing up data on AWS EC2 Micro instances using the CrashPlan headless Linux client
I’ve been using a combination of scripts to do local backups on my Amazon EC2 micro instance I use to serve this website – AutoMySQL Backup and some cron jobs which ran rsync for various paths on a rotation. For example: This is frankly a pretty lazy way to do it. I’m not protected at …
Facebook’s suggested gifts algorithm needs some work
Some good friends of ours recently had their first child and posted photos on Facebook. When viewing that post on the desktop version of Facebook it had a little ad which suggested giving a gift to them: I don’t think their suggested gifts algorithm is doing a good job of suggesting Fast & Furious 6 …
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