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These were taken along my walk along the canal

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This collection was taken on our trip to Penguicon

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I live right where the Eerie Canal and the Genessee River meet. There's a park nearby, whose green and trees makes up for the browns and murkiness of the water. There are also some paved paths along both bodies of water, so we went exploring.

Some of the more active Rochester crew and I walked along the canal tonight. We headed northwest, racing the sun to the airport. We stopped so we could watch the sky torn with sound and metal, while changing with purporanges and fading to black. We moved on.

Darkness came, and brought from me hums and walking songs. I recorded two onto my cell phone, and hope to be redoing them in some unsucktactular format soon. I need more of my own songs to sing.

We made it all the way to 390 and some railroad tracks. We turned around, as darkness had started painting the sky with stars. Trees and decay are such beautiful things. I will post pictures soon.

If you know me, or if you don't, we should walk along the river or the canal. I love these places the same way I love programming: though it may seem complicated or dirty, there is beauty living under the surface and in a certain viewpoint; you just need to learn how to find it.

Update 2004-04-20: Photos are online.

Penguicon was good. I met Greenfly (who I had previously known of through his Lifebook page), Rob and Hemos (the Slashdot people), and a rather awesome guy named Derek of the uhacc.

I saw an excellent talk on Mozilla by Scott Collins. I was very impressed by his presentation of the subject: it generally had nothing to do with the technology itself, but moreover the overall real-world concepts invloved.

Novi, Michigan was beautiful when we were there. It was coolwarm with a tickle breeze, in a soft, hazed sky. We saw a church with an enormous (150ft) white cross near it. The cross, upon closer inspection, was a cell tower.

There was unlimited Woodchuck cider and sodas in the conroom, which made me quite happy. One of the sodas I tried tasted of red and strawberries; I'll have to hunt it down.

I spent all the money I took out of the ATM on food, but it was worth it; I had a wonderful time.

Update 2004-04-19: Photos are now online.