On Senja
The stock description of Senja is “all of Norway in one little island”, and the stock description bears out pretty well. A lovely mix of coastal birch and pi...
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2022
From Øvre Dividal to Senja
We leave the shelter of the woods for Norway’s working forests and farms, on a two-day jaunt from Øvre Dividal to the island of Senja.
Alone in Øvre Dividal Nasjonalpark
The beauty of Norway’s national parks often begins outside the park boundaries. It’s not just that Norway is shockingly pretty. Rather, the parks are often b...
Balsfjord to Dividalen
In which we leave big-city Tromsø for an empty national park, and discover some lovely coastal farming country and lefse.
I Sommerlyshuset
In this episode, we make new friends, sleep a lot, and do the laundry.
To Tromso with Florian
Wrecked after our race to Skervøy, we deserved to sleep in. We did! The morning was rainy, so we had a slow breakfast in the tent vestibule, chatted with our...
Over sea and under stone
In this episode, we ride 135 miles in two days, race through Alta, appreciate ancient rock art, meet new people, and avoid a washed-out bridge by embracing N...
Hiking Stabbursnes
Stabbursnes Nasjonalpark protects the pine and birch forests around the river Stabburselva. The area where we camped and hikd is low country by the river. An...
Lakselv Loafing
Sometimes, on a trip like this, you just need a day or two to catch up.
Easy breezy to Lakselv
To Silfar Canyon
Running with Reindeer
The title track
Leaving the E6 for the Tanafjord coast
Today was the warmest day of the trip so far, which was fortunate.
Along the coast to Varangerbotn
The day began slowly. We were late to rise, and I promptly broke a couple of raw eggs in my pack. The shells are thinner than we’re used to here. We spent a ...
To Kirkenes and Nord Norge
In this episode, we make it to the start of our bicycle adventure!
Norway Second Impressions
I’m sure my word-count drop off dramatically soon, but new places are so full of new experiences, and I’m going to run with it!
First Impressions I
We’ve been in Norway for a couple of days now, and I’m excited to get some impressions down while they’re fresh.
Final Norway Packing Lists
It took a bit of hustle, but we got all of our things into boxes and all the way to scandinavia! Here’s the final packing list for posterity.
Packing for Norway
A year and half after our little pandemic wedding, H and I are going to Norway. We’ll ride our bicycles from north to south, eating lots of pastries and maki...
2021
Conda revision control tools
Today I learned that conda keeps track of its own revision history, and allows you to “install” to a specific point in that history.
Conda-installed packages not importable under test
Friday, I discovered I was no longer able to test my provenance parsing code. This wasn’t entirely unexpected - in an effort to get my head around the rpy2 ...
Diane Korngiebel’s AI ethics framework is Agile
The opening keynote at the 2021 ISCB Rocky conference was by Dr. Diane Korngiebel, who presented a formal framework for improving ethical outcomes from AI de...
Interesting ideas from the 2021 ISCB Rocky Conference
Returning from the International Society for Computational Biology’s annual Rocky conference, I’m full to bursting with other people’s ideas. I hope I’ll hav...
Abusing feature rows in the Minimal Mistakes theme
While trying to bash the home page of this site into something vaguely respectable, I discovered that it’s possible to include multiple feature rows, and eve...
The pathos of Things
I’ve been nesting hard for the last few months, tinkering and tidying and building small things to make our home more comfortable. I could blame it on the co...
A heart for any fate
If memory serves, I first found these lines in William Kennedy’s Albany Trilogy. I have loved them since. Their call to action has carried me into many adven...
2020
Checking Git tag SHAs
Recently, while troubleshooting a CI workflow build with Github Actions, I’ve been learning about Git tags. At their simplest, tags are references to specifi...