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Tags:argusoog, irc, teramai healing, webchat, zeronodeI returned from my vacation yesterday, but I thought I would share some of the interesting food, drinks, breweries and restaurants I ran into while in the USA.
Overall I had my fill of typical New England food (and some Thai) over the weeks of my vacation and I found some places I will surely want to visit again.
Tags:burlington, vacation, winooskiThis weekend, we took a roundtrip into New Hampshire.
From Burlington, we took the interstate to Montepelier, where we went onto Route 302.
This took us to Barre, where we saw a few very interesting sculptures along the road. Defnitely a place to check out further.
After Barre, we drove on along route 302 into New Hampshire.
In Bath, NH we saw an old covered bridge along the road that we just had to cross. It was quite long and a bit scary to cross the first time. On the other side we found out it was built in 1832.
Of course, we had to cross back to continue our journey, though that wasn’t as freaky as the first time.
From Bath, our trip took us through Lisbon on the way to Littleton, where we spent about an hour trying to find GG Allin’s grave in St. Rose Cemetery. His grave was covered in broken bottles and what seemed to be a small pile of human excrement.
After Littleton, the trip took us south past Franconia along I-93 to the Indian Head resort near Lincoln.
The view of this face in profile in the side of the mountain was very nice, especially when the sun was starting to go down a bit.
On the way back north to Franconia, we saw the “Sleeping Dog”. That’s not the official name of the mountain range, but it really looked like it. We took a small detour to watch the Mt. Washington hotel at night. It looked really nice all lit up.
After that, we checked in at Hillwinds Lodge in Franconia, had dinner, went to a store for a 12-pack of beer and spent the remainder of the evening just hanging out in the motel room with beer + music.
The next morning after breakfast, we went south into the Franconia Notch state park, where we stopped at regular intervals for more scenic views. We visited ‘the basin‘, a pothole that was eroded at the end of the last ice age. It looked really nice with the landscape mostly covered in a layer of snow.
From there, we went south to Lincoln, where we went onto route 112, also called the Kancamagus Highway. This scenic route took us all the way to Conway, with frequent stops along the way, most notably at Rocky Gorge. Some wild turkeys accentuated the scenic beauty of this route.
After a nice mexican lunch at Cafe Noche in Conway, we traveled up north along route 16 towards route 302 (a familiar number by now). After traveling through Crawford Notch, we stopped at Willey House for some more pictures. Unfortunately, the area looked to be closed down for the winter. Even all signs had been removed (except for a sign about black bears).
Shortly after Willey House, the trip was completed by a sudden moose sighting. After quickly turning around the car and backtracking a short bit, we were treated with a great view of a young female moose standing along the road before disappearing back into the forest.
The last stop on the trip was back at Mt. Washington for some pictures of the mountains lit up by the setting sun. After that, we took Route 302 back towards Barre, VT (with a mandatory two way trip over the covered bridge at Bath). From Barre, we took I-89 back to the Burlington area. Just before getting back to Burlington, a couple of meteors from the Leonid meteor swarm gave the trip a final finishing touch.
Overall, the trip into New Hampshire was definitely worth our time. I really enjoyed the trip, the scenery was stunning and the moose sighting just completed the whole package.
Pictures to follow, once I get around to editing them.
Tags:bath, covered bridge, gg allin, indian head, kancamagus highway, littleton, moose, mt. washington, new hampshire, rocky gorge, the basin, vacation, willey houseIt took a week, but I finally got around to editing the pictures of the trip to Plattsburgh and the lake Champlain islands.
Some samples:
More pictures here!
Tags:isle la motte, Photography, plattsburgh, st. anne's shrine, vacationWe took a road trip today around Lake Champlain.
We left from Burlington to South Hero and then took the Grand Isle ferry over to Plattsburgh, NY.
From there we drove around a bit, mostly going north until we got to Fort Montgomery (also called Fort “Blunder”) near Rouses Point, NY (very close to the Canadian border). We went back to the Vermont side of the lake there across a bridge.
Right after that, we got to the town of Alburg, VT .. or should I say Alburgh, VT? I don’t know .. but neither do the people that live there, it seems. There’s a whole disagreement going on about whether or not the town’s name should end in an H or not. Alburg(h) is sort of unique in that it’s the only part of the USA that actually only touches Canada and is surrounded by water on all other sides (Apart from Alaska).
From there we traveled back southwards towards Isle la Motte and visited St. Anne’s Shrine. It’s a really pretty outdoor church (though the church itself wasn’t open now).
After St. Anne’s Shrine, it was pretty much directly back to Burlington. The sun was setting anyway, so there wasn’t much left to be seen outside, except for the sunset over the Lake Champlain islands.
Overall, I took about 120 pictures today. I will try to upload some of them soon.
Tags:alburgh, burlington, isle la motte, plattsburgh, st. anne's shrine, vacationWell, 10:13 PM turned into 10:38 PM and eventually we left Philadelphia by 10:55 PM. Burlington Airport looked like it was waiting for us to leave to they could close, so I guess it was a close call whether we would be able to fly to Burlington at all.
We landed at 12:15 AM. On the way down, we passed through some clouds where it definitely looked like it was snowing there. It’s not snowing yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it started snowing later this night.
We got checked into the motel and now it’s time for a good night’s rest.
Tags:burlington, flight delay, vacationWell, it’s 5:30 PM now (though my mind still thinks it’s 11:30 PM) and I’m now in Philadelphia Airport.
So far, the trip went well. Left home this morning at 7:15 AM to go to the trainstation. My train to Schiphol had a delay of about 15 minutes, but that was ok, I had plenty of time to check in anyway.
Checked in, went through customs, did the whole security thing …
By 12:35 pm, we were away from the gate .. 13:00 we actually took off.
8 hours later, we landed in Philadelphia, 15:00 local time. It only took me 2 hours to get here !!
Going through the security checkpoint took the most time, but even that was a matter of about 5-10 minutes (getting all electronic devices from my bag, packing them all back in …)
Waiting for my connecting flight to Burlington now, which leaves at 8:55 PM. Only a bit over 3 hours left to wait. Good thing there’s wireless available here. I wouldn’t know what to do with so many hours of free time …
UPDATE 6:43 PM: Guess I spoke to soon. The connecting flight to Burlington has been delayed and is now scheduled for 10:13 PM. The streak of good luck was going to end sooner or later, I guess.
Tags:airport, burlington, philadelphia, vacationAccording to an article I just read a Russian spammer, thought to be responsible for roughly 30% of the viagra spam worldwide was found murdered in his house this week.
Now the optimist in me wants to see this as a revenge action where he spammed the wrong person, but I bet he just failed to pay his protection money or something silly like that.
The end result should be 30% fewer viagra mails .. if only for a few days until someone else takes over the botnet this idiot was using.
EDIT: Appearently, this is a hoax. The original domain this post was on was registered just before the story appeared, has no other content and is hosted at a hosting provider (ESTDomains) which is known for hosting malicious websites in the past. Securityfocus.com notes that this might be an attempt to create a highly referenced URL (through blogs, digg, slashdot, google, etc.) that later could be used to host malicious code.
Tags:hoax, malware, spamSo I had to do some work this morning/afternoon … After our SAN had a failure earlier this week, we had to fix a lot of things. We hadn’t lost any data, but on quite a few shared folders, all access rights had disappeared.
The best plan we could come up with was restore all data to a secondary volume and copy over the acls through robocopy. The only problem was that our new backup policy turns out to make full backups only once a month, so we had to restore the full backup of July 31 and then restore all differential backups since then in order, which I’ve been busy with all morning.
Since I was confined behind the PC anyway, I decided to go over some of the pictures I took nearly two years ago while on holiday in Italy. I cropped, resized and uploaded about 120 more pictures from that week.
Some of the pictures I uploaded:
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