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Hooper

Osteosarcoma Ice Cream

This is the first of perhaps many posts about the last 26 hours I spent with my dog Hooper, which also turned out to be the last 26 hours Hooper had on this

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2016 Recap

2016 Recap

Executive Summary There have been better years. But you know what, to have had a year at all means I was alive, and this is the greatest gift one can receive. The future

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An Adventure Ride
Colorado

An Adventure Ride

My first "big" adventure ride with the Tiger is in the books. My dear friend Rois was getting married in Gunnison, and Brenda wouldn't be able to make it out due

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It's More Than Just Exercise
exercise

It's More Than Just Exercise

Apparently, it all started two years ago: Dear Rob, This confirms your reservation for Beginners' BaseCamp on 4/22/2013 to 5/8/2013. This event meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 6:

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resolutions

2014 in the Rearview

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but it's also been a while since I've posted anything at all on this blog. Seems like as good a reason as any

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pets

Ellie the Cat, 2004(?)-2014

Well, our little Ellie passed away last night, the poor dear. Cancer wins again, and while I keep telling myself there wasn't anything I could have done to prevent that, I am beating

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Sanity Testing BSDFs
Radiance

Sanity Testing BSDFs

When simulating light transport with light-backwards raytracing, complex macro- or micro-geometry that obfuscates light sources -- especially a small, intense light source such as the sun -- generally cause the alrogithm to break

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    Rob Guglielmetti
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paleo

Turkey and Cilantro Chili

After listening to Jersey girl Diane Sanfilippo at the gym this afternoon, I was all fired up to make something paleo. It was also kinda grey and cold outside, after a few spectacular

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    Rob Guglielmetti
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blog

Blog Update

In case anyone is still out there, I just updated my blog again, agian, again. Again. About a month ago I decided to give Ghost a try, and it was a little bit

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Boulder

A New Low

They've done it again; just when you thought you were fully Boulder Whole Foods Battle Hardened, these people manage to redefine solipsism. Lemme tell ya what happened. The other day I'm in the

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light

f.lux

f.Lux is a cool little utility that appeals to the lighting geek in me. What it does is adjusts the color temperature of your monitor or laptop screen, based on the time

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blogging

Powered by Ghost

rumblestrip.org is now running on the Ghost platform. More later.

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unfiled

Trip to Dry Creek

New camera, same pals.

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unfiled

Back to School

I just signed up for an online class at Berkeley (Intro to Statistics). I'm pretty psyched, because I believe all card-carrying lib-ruhls are supposed to have studied "at" Berkeley. I'm also

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cycling

NAHBS 2013

Well, after years of wanting to go, I finally got to attend the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and it was worth the wait. Started in 2005 by framebuilder Don Walker, NAHBS is

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unfiled

Elk Insanity

You'd think that after seven years of living in Boulder, CO this shit wouldn't faze me anymore, but, alas. Since there's no way this made the national news, let me tell ya what

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9-11-2001

The Price of Freedom

I recently read a righty editorial that suggested the notion that the massacre at Sandy Hook was the "price of freedom" -- that the right of all American adults to own

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media

Rebuttal

A friend of mine recently asked me to post a clarification to a comment on one of her Facebook posts. My friend had posted this piece about how climate change skeptics/denialists are

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    Rob Guglielmetti
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cycling

Flagstaff

Let's talk about rarities. It's rare that an individual discovers his passion at five years old; it's also rare that an individual follows that passion through high school, against great odds and bias.

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unfiled

The Way it Should Be

Today I stopped in at my credit union, to get a credit card. I had recently told Bank of America to go fuck themselves, and to take the credit card account I had

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unfiled

Intern Punks, and the Failure of Science to Teach (Movie) History

The education system in the United States is broken, we all know that. There are several theories about why this is, but that's not what this post is about. This is about intern

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    Rob Guglielmetti
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unfiled

Next to Normal

Yesterday Brenda & I trekked down to Denver to see "Next to Normal" at the Denver Center. It's been a while since we've seen something there, and even longer since I've

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    Rob Guglielmetti
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people

2010 in the Rearview

It's been a while since I've posted anything at all on this blog. I blame Facebook; too easy to snap a photo with my phone and upload it, too easy to link to

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people

Thank You, Contributors!

Thanks to all who contributed to my fundraising efforts for the 2010 Cause for Paws, benefiting the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. About 500 people (plus dogs!) participated in either the run or

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light

Published

So, last month, I presented a paper at SimBuild 2010. Today, the lab I work for published a link to the preprint, which enters me into the scientific roll call. I am stoked.

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