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Monday, September 15, 2003
Juneacy 
| | Linux Lunacy has come to Juneau. We just docked. That's the town, right there in the picture above. Is there a smaller state capital? I doubt it. Whatever, there sure isn't a more isolated one. There are no roads out. Or in. "Out the road" is what they call the only road that tries to leave, and it doesn't get but thirty miles or so. |
| | That little white line running down the face of the mountain is a cascading stream that drains the subalpine meadows above. Makes me wonder about avalanche and falling rock dangers. Hmm.. |
| | Right now I'm working on my keynote for tomorrow night while uploading my first collection of photos, in very slow motion. Those links should work once they're up. In about an hour some friendly locals will take us away for brats & beer. Should be fun. |
| | [Later...] Most of the pictures failed to load. I'll try again tomorrow when I have time and the bandwidth opens up a bit. |
Still rolling along on the high seas
| | I woke up early yesterday morning when the boat listed to starboard and nearly rolled me out of bed. So I turned on the TVand watched the Report From the Bridge. It said the seas were "rough", with waves from 7 to 12 feet high. This statement was followed by a chart that showed waves lapping in that height range, with plenty of overhead to where the chart stops, at 40 feet. Yet the 28 to 33 foot delta seemed small, somehow. What happens in 50 foot waves? I wondered. |
| | Anyway, the rough seas continued throughout most of the day. The pools were worse than unusable; they were dangerous. Witness the picture above. |
| | But the lectures were terrific. I especially enjoyed watching Charles Roth lean one way and then another as gravity moved around beneath his feet while he gave his talk about Online Collaboration. |
| | We visit Juneau today. Among other things, we'll have drinks at the Baranof, where Mom lived for awhile when she first came to Alaska in 1939. |
| | Here's our whole itinerary. Though it doesn't say so, Glacier Bay is tomorrow. |
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