Archive for California
Alex Honnold free solos Freeride (5.13a/7c+)
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Alex Honnold, California, El Capitan, free climbing, solo climbing, Yosemite on June 11, 2017 by xi'an
male masters
Posted in Running, Travel with tags California, Golden Gate Bridge, Grand Master, half-marathon, JASA, plaque, podium, road running, San Francisco half-marathon on November 5, 2016 by xi'an
Yesterday, I received this wood plaque from the organisers of the San Francisco Marathon! Nice, as I had not expected them to deliver abroad. And with this surprising title of second place in the male masters. After checking on Google (and avoiding a long list of SM sites), it appears that this means the above 40 category, which I had never heard of before. (I would have preferred an above 50 category, obviously! Which appears to exist in some races as the Grand Master category, even better!) Looking further at some of the (running) links, it also appears that categories by weight have been introduced in some races… Not that I can expect to benefit from that further division!
London mural [Sacramento]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Beers Books Centre, California, Jack London, murals, Sacramento, street art, vacations on September 7, 2016 by xi'an
winning entry at MCqMC’16
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags California, MCqMC 2016, qMC, quasi-random sequences, scientific computing, Stanford University, tee-shirt, uniformity on August 29, 2016 by xi'an
The nice logo of MCqMC 2016 was a collection of eight series of QMC dots on the unit (?) cube. The organisers set a competition to identify the principles behind those quasi-random sets and as I had no idea for most of them I entered very random sets unconnected with algorithmia, for which I got an honourable mention and a CD prize (if not the conference staff tee-shirt I was coveting!) Art Owen sent me back my entry, posted below and hopefully (or not!) readable.
home-grown food [mush/bathroom]
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags airbnb, bathroom, California, hygiene, MCqMC 2016, mushrooms, Palo Alto, rental, Stanford University on August 27, 2016 by xi'an
