Matthew Bohnsack

Today’s activities included a trip to the Coronado State Monument (lame), followed by a drive up the unmaintained, snow-covered, rutted, and precariously slippery Placitas backroad to the North Sandia Peak:

Although it was 45 in Albuquerque today, the temperature was barely above 20° F at Sandia Peak’s 10,378 ft. of elevation:

On the way back down on the easy paved road, we got stuck after I asked to stop so I could take a picture of this this sign:

Luckily, a kind dude in a big truck stopped to pull us out.

I didn’t buy anything today. My position is on this day of mega shopping is not quite like this, but deciededly not like this. I can’t take the crowds, don’t understand the strong holiday/shopping correlation, am not suckered by “deals”, and would rather shop (when required) in peace.

My most sincere gratitude to our veterans. Thank you!

All of the photos I took at Pittsburgh’s Veterans Day Parade

I saw the following happen, but didn’t catch the significance. Perhaps I’m not
as ‘leet as I used to be:

Story (via the hated Trotskists at Boing Boing).

This is now part of a Wikipedia article on "Leet".

According to the always interesting Pika Brittlebush, my home is “Albuquerque’s hotbed of conservative blogging“. At least I’m an “obviously intelligent anomaly”.

I welcome Larry to his new home in Albuquerque’s conservative stronghold and encourage you to check out Pika’s photo gallery of the south valley’s Day of the Dead parade, while visiting her site.

Dear Mr. Bohnsack:

Congratulations! You have been admitted to the Master’s degree program through the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of New Mexico for the spring 2005 semester.

Our spring semester begins on January 18, 2005.

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Yipee! Firefox 1.0 was released today (slashdot discussion).

Fedora Core 3 was released today. It won’t do me any good, until I can get its Perl to play well with Apache 1.3.x/mod_perl/HTML::Mason for a project I’m working on, but I’ll try downloading it with bit torrent from the hotel room this evening and putting it on a play system when I get home. Seems like it was only yesterday that RedHat 9 was released. Time marches on.