Podiobooks are cool

Check out this cool website: podiobooks.com
They host a whole set of mostly unpublished authors' audiobooks, and allows you to subscribe to the book as an RSS feed; you can recieve a new chapter every day,  week, or month to allow slow consumption.
There are some great books on there, I've been exploring it for the last few days.

It combines very well with netvibes.com, which is a personalized homepage that I have been using. It lets you set up RSS feeds and many other things to show everytime you open your browser. Mine is set up to get my email, about 10 blogs from my friends, weather, news, and also has a notes and to-do-list feature.

Combine them?
=cool.

Take the money and run

Hello everyone. Max here, reporting from the city of Bellingham. Did you know that Bellingham was the site of a gold rush of 80,000 miners in 1858?

Random fact for the readers. I picked up the Hiking Guide to Whatcom County earlier, should make for interesting tramps. I am considering making a foray out to Olympic National Park over spring break, we shall see. Contingent on the sky not falling down in a thuderous wet splash, as has been known to happen around here in March. Here are a few pictures from up here.

The remnants of the latest snow     Soren drifting off in class

spring or winter?                                    Fog is thick and common

Oyster Dome

So I met up with some people and did some parkour/hiking on Oyster Dome, just south of Bellinghman on Chuckanut Drive. It was fun,
a long day at 7 hours and many miles.  There is a 200 or so ft. escarpment up there, which looks to have 5 or 6 climbs up to three pitches on it. Gotta check those out asap. Here are a few pics, I didn't take many. 

Fright

almost two and a half thousand nuclear weapons are located
at Bangor Submarine base, 20 miles from Seattle.
That is 1/4 of the USA's nukes.
Frightening.
 

Day 13... and counting

Well, I'm still in Bellingham since the last time i posted, things have been good up here.
the snow has melted out over the last couple days, and yesterday was actually sunny! The first
nice weather since i have been up here. Me and some friends threw a frisbee around on the field,
soaking in the sunlight. I think we all had the rickets.
Last night we all went to the Basketball game, Western vs. our rival Central Washington. We won
the game in overtime, there were probably 25 lead changes through the course of the game. Fun!

here are some random photos ; a sandstorm in iraq, marshall and megan cruisin in thailand, and tokyo in HDR.

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In other news...

snowfall blanketed bellingham on wednesday, leaving a 4-inch blanket across the entire region. The skies cleared thursday morning, 
but continued low temperatures in the teens and twenties have made many of the sidewalks and road into treacherous slides. A deer was spotted off my front porch yesterday, munching on the carefully manicured brush.

Coollege

So I am at college. WWU. Bellingham is windy and has clean air. My roomate is from alaska and is named Dylan, he is cool.  I just signed up for Psychology, Medievel History, and Philosophy. Cool. Played some B-ball today, and set up the dorm room. Its gonna be fun, I can already tell.

The Aurora Borealis and other things

Hey. I'm home, been here or a long while, putting off this and just putzing around. It's good to be home, but I already miss New Zealand a lot. I want to be on the road again. I'm really feeling the idea of traveling to Alaska/Yukon territory asap, we'll see when that works out.

Things that have happened:
A fight in the NBA, Basketball practice started, got a laptop for school, began Christmas present buying procedures, Harry, Nick, and Roland back from school, seattle had an enormous wind storm and we lost power for about 48 hours, we purchased a Christmas tree and assembled it in our living room, I got a new mattress, and was motivated to rearrange and clean my room with my great-grandfather's bed frame as my new bed frame. I also saw the new James Bond movie. Thats all I can think of right now.