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Hello Cascade mountain range—I have missed you!
Take a look at the reflection in the lake—it’s perfect. There are a bunch more like this in the gallery.
Austin and I hiked up to Lake 22 last Tuesday. It was about 6 miles round trip (including a walk around the lake) in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
The cool [...]

My need for chronology and my sense of timeliness had a war, and timeliness won. So here, grossly out of the space-time continuum, are Thanksgiving photos.
I didn’t get any post-worthy Thanksgiving-themed pictures (though there are some decent photos here), so I give you the aftermath:

Happy Thanksgiving! More from the foothills of the Cascades and downtown [...]

What’s wrong with this picture?

Allegra’s family at a beer tasting? For Allegra’s mother’s birthday? I think the world has turned upside down.
Then we spent the rest of the day creating complicated meals from scratch. All is right with the world.

But wait! There’s more! Allegra’s little brother is old enough to own a house?

Seriously, we’re all [...]

Matt again - So I caught this article a few weeks ago about the possibility that our dimension of time might collapse into a dimension of space. After thinking about it, I was disturbed. What does that even mean?
Coupled with reading about simultaneity and relativity in Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps in my History [...]

I know that the president was here last night doing this. Why do I know and why do I care? Allow me to expound.
I see plenty of motorcades on my daily commute. Limousines and SUVs with black tinted windows accompanied by at least four police vehicles with flashing lights, two ahead and and two behind.
Motorcades [...]