San Jose Ca Other Trips
Skating on Stanford campus w/ Geoff: With only a few puddles left from the recent rains we checked out some of the new terrain at Stanford. Unfortunately about an hour into the skate the skies opened up again and we got rained out.
The Friends of Coyote Creek were out for National River Clean-up Week on May 16. 2009. I brought my GPS, camera, and creek savy, to the venture. Even though I was in the largest, most stable boat on the water, fear of dropping the camera into the water limited the number of photos taken. Our boat actually spent most of the day collecting and ferrying trash from other boats to the drop...
Random walk on the GooglePlex
Santiago Villa Mobile Home Park, California, United States
consuming | 0.6 miles
consuming | 0.6 miles
Winding down with beers and burgers at the GooglePlex at the and of the Developer Day, after an interesting day full of Google Maps API action.
The Boy Scouts have a jewel of a camp, and some great leaders who made a great experience for our boys. Best part was the GoCart building. For more information see http://www.scccbsa.org/html/about/csr.html .
International Picnic Back to School Night at Walter Hays School
Palo Alto, California, United States
PIcnic | 2.8 miles
PIcnic | 2.8 miles
What does it look like to document a picnic held a block away from home? I guess we'll find out.What we found out is that the systematic errors of the GPS make it appear as if we were holding this picnic on top of the school building visible in the satellite imagery. We weren't. The gpx time must be GMT, because the saved file timestamp says it's tomorrow. Maybe that's editable in...
For four days its been raining, often hard. Yesterday I picked the perfect moment to get drenched on my 1.5 mile ride home from work. But today, today is spectacular. It's dry, breezy, colors, such as they are here in California, are full fall splendor. It's a great day to vote.I had a vote by mail ballot, so I could go anywhere to drop it off. My old regular spot is no...
The Amazing Refuge Race - Don Edwards SFB National Wildlife Refuge
Newark, California, United States
GPS-based adventure racing | 3.9 miles
GPS-based adventure racing | 3.9 miles
In the context of the National Wildlife Refuge week, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay NWR organized their first "Amazing Refuge Race", an educational, GPS-based contest:"Armed with GPS units, you and your team will “race” against other teams by attempting to complete required tasks on the refuge first. Teams will be given a set of coordinates where they must try to locate using a GPS unit. Once at that location, teams must...
I play tennis with my children at a park a few minutes away. Today we rode our bikes there, and I left my GPS on while we played. It's interesting to see how much movement there is. The biking is about 1/2 mile each way, easily discernible from the speed data. That means running around the tennis court was about 2 mi. That's believable. The Vertical, is that to be...
