The John Day river is an amazing place to paddle board. It has a 70 mile section of wild, red rock canyon that is only accessible by rafts, drift boats, and yes – stand up paddle boards. This trip was even featured on OPB years ago. This was my third SUP camping trip on the […]

It’s been a long while since I climbed the South Sister (way back in 2012). Originally, I grabbed a permit to climb with my father. Unfortunately, he was not able to make it. This was probably for the best, as the conditions were less than optimal, but I didn’t know that when I started. This […]

It’s been a few years since I last went up hood, but the conditions looked promising. When the weather held up, I found myself at Timberline lodge at 2:30am, Friday night. I wanted to start earlier (to catch a sumit sunrise). However, with temps well below freezing, I had reservations. With firm snow, I made […]

Monday, October 9, 2023, 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM EDT  Slides: Breaking up with vendors [PDF] Description We live in a modern world where vendors can provide your college with cloud-based, enterprise-level solutions. Why then, would anyone decide to build a new “application and registration” system from scratch? Initially, this was not a project my […]

I try to climb Mt. Adams each year. It is a beautiful mountain and the climbing route offers majestic views and a reasonable challenge without being too technical. Last year, I decided to try a single day, car-to-car climb. This made for a very long trek: 14 miles, 7000′ of elevation gain and losses not […]

I try to find time to climb Mt Adams each year. It is a beautiful mountain and the climbing route offers majestic views and a reasonable challenge without being too technical. In past years, I always opted for a standard two-day climb. During the first day you haul a heavy pack up the “lunch counter” […]

Spent the weekend in the off-limits area of the Columbia River burn. I was with other members of the Oregon Trails Club doing repairs and maintenance on the Nesika lodge site. Two of the three buildings were lost in the fire, but the main lodge amazingly remained undamaged. We spent most of the weekend clearing […]

As you may have noticed, I am a bit … obsessed … about hops. So, I was stoked when Michael contacted me in the comments about some seedling that his garden club students were growing: My students (high school garden club) collected seeds from the hills west of Pueblo, Colorado, and have been successful in germinating a few seeds. […]

The WordPress API: Web Applications for the REST of Us What: Workshop at the 2017 HighEdWeb conference When: Wednesday, 10/10/2017 Where: Hartford, CT WordPress is an incredible platform for building custom web applications… but until now, it always required a bit of hacking. With the release of the REST API, it has finally become a […]

The 2017 solar eclipse has come, and gone – but it left a strong impression. So much so, that I am already considering how to travel to the next one in the US: 2024. We viewed it from my brothers property just south of Philomath, OR. The hour leading up to totality was interesting enough, […]