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Hail storm

Here’s a neat time-lapse of the hail storm coming in…..
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Flyfishing

OK, none of us really had a clue (this was my first time fishing, let alone flyfishing, ever), but we went with Rocky Mountain Anglers (guide outfit). It was a riot…. I even caught two fish, when we were fishing on the Big Thompson River outside Estes Park.

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Another fire…

Lightning strike in Lefthand Canyon… Bad pics because they were taken with my camera phone

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Aerial house photos

Here’s some pictures I took June 1 of my house from above (plane). You can see my deck and hot tub fairly clearly.

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Fox up close

No, I don’t feed them. About 2 feet away…

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Fire aftermath

I fought the March 4 Lefthand Canyon fire . I happened to take a plane ride over top and some pictures from the ground in the same day.

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Chinese lip-sync’ers

Read this Slate article (actually listened to the podcast) about these Chinese lip-sync’ers and how youtube.com works.

They’re actually pretty good at this thing…


Best one….

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Best Buy mission by Improv Everywhere

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Improv Everywhere strikes again.  This is the same group I wrote about here .

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Russian roulette

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OK, I got to watching the HBO mini-series Epitafios (awesome show, IMHO), where one of the main characters is in the habit of playing Russian Roulette. My instinct was to agree with the odds initially posted on the wikipedia article here and discussed here , that with no respin, the odds go up on each subsequent trigger pull: 1/6, 1/5, 1/4…. etc. to 1/1 on the sixth. I realized that this was a misreprentation of the statistics, because only one "selection" was made at the beginning of the game (the spin). So I wrote a program to simulate the game, and to my pleasant surprise, I was right, each pull is 1/6 up until the sixth pull which is 1/1.

Long story short, Russian Roulette doesn’t become successively more dangerous as you play. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll never play, but this was kind of interesting to me to do the math (and a interesting example of how the self-correcting nature of Wikipedia is accessible to everybody.)

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Heart attack victim saved by passing defibrillator salesman and nurses

Lucky, lucky, lucky.