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Perkins (Morris) Cedar Grove

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 Matt Hikes

I think I've mentioned before that there are a number of cedar groves, stands of old-growth Western Red Cedar, nearby. I've already posted about the Hobo Cedar Grove out near Clarkia and Grandfather Mountains. Several times I've been to the Giant Cedar out near Elk River. On our way into Idaho when I moved out here, Erin and I…

Adventures in fast, reliable ineternet

June 9, 2012June 9, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

For the past seven years, I have been living with slow, unreliable internet. In 2004-2005, the Weis Ecology Center was on dial-up service. Camp McDowell in Alabama was also on dial-up service, shared on a wireless network. If you can remember far enough back when dial-up was the forefront of home internet technology, you might also remember how long it…

Oregon Butte: The Successful Failure

May 29, 2012May 29, 2012 Matt Hikes

View Oregon Butte - 5/26-27/2012 in a larger map Things don't always go according to plan. Along the journey, you discover new interests or find obstacles that end up providing you with a totally different experience than originally expected. This lesson was hard hit this weekend as we attempted a backpacking trip in the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington. The…

A Tale of Two Hikes

May 20, 2012May 20, 2012 Matt Hikes

I was left home alone this weekend. Erin had gone down to Boise and Ontario, OR for a regional meeting of one of the support groups she attends. She was also taking Lana down to Boise to be transported to her new home with a trainer in Wyoming. So while she was gone for three days, I was in charge…

Asotin Creek… sort of.

May 13, 2012May 13, 2012 Matt Hikes

The photo above was taken in February of 2010, my first visit to Asotin Creek. I've been back a couple of times as it is usually a reliable winter hike that is free of snow. I had never gone down in the spring when everything is green, and certainly not in the summer when temperatures can reach the 100 degree…

The Last One

May 5, 2012May 5, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

Since last week, we had been down to three puppies. Three is much more manageable than seven, but still a crowd. In fact, having two out at a time was still a handful. Tuesday, I made up posters advertising the rest of the pups, and in less than 24 hours, we had two more sold. This left us with one…

Evo-WIBO weekend recap

April 26, 2012April 26, 2012 Matt Research Blog, Travel Stories

This past weekend, I was in Port Townsend, WA for the bi-annual Evo-WIBO meeting. Evo-WIBO is a small, regional gathering of someo of the biggest names in evolutionary biology in the Pacific northwest. Its only a day and a half long and very informal. Yet, because of its size and intimacy, I got more out of this meeting than I…

Another conference, how about that?

April 19, 2012April 19, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

Somehow, I managed to go to two conferences in one semester. Tomorrow, I'll be heading to Port Townsend, WA along with several other members of the department for the bi-annual Evo-WIBO conference. This is a small, regional conference for evolutionary biologists in the Pacific Northwest. There are only going to be around 200 or so people attending (compared to the…

Puppies for Sale

April 11, 2012April 11, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

The puppies are now over 8 weeks old and oh so cute. As you can imagine, seven growing pups indoors can create quite a mess that is hard to keep on top of. On top of that, any time you step into their room, they all mob you for attention. So, as spring weather has descended upon the Palouse, we…

LaTeX

April 10, 2012March 24, 2020 Matt Personal Updates

[latex size=1]p' = \frac{w_{AA}p^2 + w_{Aa}pq}{w_{AA}p^2 + w_{Aa}pq + w_{aa}q^2}[/latex] This semester, one of my classes has required me to turn in all of my assignments in LaTeX. LaTeX (la-tek) is built on TeX, a typesetting language meant to produce beautiful documents reminiscent of the days when papers were printed from engraved plates. Typesetting was an art that got…

Attempting to Snowshoe

March 7, 2012March 7, 2012 Matt Hikes

This past weekend, we had a nice day on my day off for once. So I took advantage of the sunshine and warm weather to get out and hike. Or so I thought. I've been waiting to take my snowshoes out for a real winter trek, and the timing has been bad. I set my sights on the Gold Center…

Small World

February 11, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

Harvest Moon, originally uploaded by Matthew Singer. Beth, one of the photo club members and employee at the Prichard Art Gallery downtown, mentioned at our last meeting that a student was in town with the current exhibit at the gallery. He didn't know anyone and was desperate to hang out with people his own age. So we got a group…

Babies

February 9, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

Out of nowhere, our dog population has increased four fold. Here's the back story. Several weeks ago, I came home to find two extra dogs at the house. They were two German Shepherds, a male and a female, that Erin had decided to watch for a friend while she got on her feet and found a place to live…

It’s going to be a busy semester

January 16, 2012 Matt Personal Updates

Somehow, I had arranged the semester to be fairly light allowing me to work on my research. I was only signed up for one class, the work of which parallelled the work I have to do for my degree, namely write up a dissertation project proposal. On top of that, I was slated to teach one lab section, so overall…

Of data and formatting

December 13, 2011 Matt Research Blog

I've been in graduate school now for a year and a half, and I have yet to reveal just what it is I'm working on. Almost immediately coming in, I took over a project originally designed and run by Mary Oswald, the previous doctoral student who had graduated over the summer and left the lab officially at the end of…

Happy Thanksgiving

November 24, 2011 Matt Personal Updates

Holy crap it's Thanksgiving already! Well I've been thinking about what to make this post about. There are several great options: The real story of thanksgiving and how it became what we perceive it to be today, the start of the commercial materialism season, the nature of human behavior, and so on. But I think rather than the normal cynical…

Interestingness

November 2, 2011 Matt Photo Blog

Since I started using Flickr to show of my photography to the world, I've neglected my own self-hosted galleries here at Mineral2.com. I'm considering doing away with the Gallery software altogether and maybe swapping it out for a simpler interface for displaying a portfolio. At any rate, Flickr has been a much better interface for me because in addition to…

Grandfather Mountain: A pre-winter hike

October 30, 2011October 30, 2011 Matt Hikes

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Looking back (south) on Grandfather Mountain"][/caption] I've been very busy with graduate school, and that has put hiking and exploring on hold, but that also has me itching to get out, especially as my days of decent hiking weather grow shorter and shorter. I've been trying to get up to Sandpoint to get in one…

Aurora

October 25, 2011October 25, 2011 Matt Photo Blog

Tonight I had a great surprise and learned a valuable lesson as to why it's somtimes good to stay up late, even on a school night. I got the word of an aurora event tonight around 11:30 local time, and this was from people on the east coast. So I thought to myself: I wonder if I can see it…

I went to Florida

October 8, 2011 Matt Personal Updates

I went to Florida, originally uploaded by Matthew Singer. Taking a break from the usual trips into the mountains, I went to Florida last weekend to celebrate the marriage of one of my good buddies. The wedding was in Pensacola Beach, with the actual ceremony on the beach outside of town. I've been to Florida before, but not the Gulf…