{"id":814,"date":"2007-02-18T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/02\/18\/watching-the-sunset-from-sunset\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T22:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T05:56:36","slug":"watching-the-sunset-from-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/02\/18\/watching-the-sunset-from-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Sunset from Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to prove that we don&#8217;t have a gambling problem, Aaron, Charlie Chi and myself made yet another excursion to Vegas last week.  I proved to be a lucky charm (for the casinos), and shortly after I arrived Aaron and Chi&#8217;s winnings had turned to losses.  My own luck was rather terrible as well, and my losing streak at Let-It-Ride now stands at twelve straight hands.  The slot machines treated us better, and we managed a slow bleed with occasional big wins, including a $75 jackpot for me that ended my gambling for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In other ways life is trudging along as normal, so rather than bore with details of my days spent programming at DirecTV, here are a few other noteworthy events going on in the world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a> is planning their <a href=\"http:\/\/spacex.com\/updates.php\">second launch attempt<\/a> for early March.  Provided it goes off without a hitch then space travel is suddenly three times less expensive.<\/li>\n<li>MIT is working on a plan that would put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/6181\/\">huge floating wind turbines a hundred miles offshore<\/a>, generating enormous amounts of power while avoiding the &#8220;not in my backyard&#8221; complaints of those with oceanside vacation homes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/lost\/index\">Lost<\/a> is still a ridiculously good show.<\/li>\n<li>Boeing&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_787\">new 787 airplane<\/a> looks very cool.  Bigger windows, a more comfortable cabin, and lots of other goodies in addition to better fuel efficiency to make the airlines happy.<\/li>\n<li>The combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/product\/index.html\">Open Office.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kde.org\/screenshots\/\">KDE<\/a> running on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux_kernel\">Linux<\/a> is looking better and better.  In another year or two I suspect I might be done with running Windows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m a big dork, but technology is cool.  And of course, here&#8217;s the obligatory pretty picture:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/american_west\/highlights\/pages\/2005-03-A\/4113-grand-canyon-landscape.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2005-03-A\/4113-grand-canyon-landscape.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Canyon\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Grand Canyon, seen back when I was retired.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to prove that we don&#8217;t have a gambling problem, Aaron, Charlie Chi and myself made yet another excursion to Vegas last week. I proved to be a lucky charm (for the casinos), and shortly after I arrived Aaron and Chi&#8217;s winnings had turned to losses. My own luck was rather terrible as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/02\/18\/watching-the-sunset-from-sunset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watching the Sunset from Sunset&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,68,54],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-family","tag-las-vegas","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11155,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}