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miscellaneous ben July 28, 2010

Trip of doom – some giant ass silos in Fairfield, MT


miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom

miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom – will someone pleaaaase amputate my ass

My rear end is hurting so much and after day 3 I still haven’t broken into
my saddle. I’m now doubting this will even happen. I guess an XR650L isn’t
exactly the type of bike that you take on day long trips. Brandon’s quote
of the day is “How do you like having a motorcycle shoved up your ass for
hours?” and there is simply no better way to put it.

miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom – a day of riding in your face


I find it amusing that we have to be careful keeping food around us because
of bears but yet we’re pretty much walking around with a pound of bug meat
on our jeans, jackets and helmets.

miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom – day 3 Montana rocks


We took it easy today and just rode for a couple of hours, we’re spending
the night in this awesome cabin maintained by the US forest services. This
is a nice break to recuperate before we aim for Canada. I can’t believe
that it’s only day 3. Montana is enormous and has very long and wide roads,
coupled with no wind makes for the best riding. It’s farm after farm here.
And sometimes, a small town, some cute, some not so cute with obvious meth
problems. Abandoned houses and railroads would be great photographic
oportunities but it’s hard to stop and unwrap everytime. Cell phone
coverage is getting very sparse. Tonight we will be sleeping in a bed and
with 4 walls & a roof.

miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom – camping fun

The camping we stayed at yesterday has had bear activity recently, the
night was creepy quiet. It always amazes me the buzz we get in our ears
when there is nothing to be heard. Except maybe for Brandon snoring, which
given the right conditions sounds exactly like a bear passing by your tent.
I don’t know if it’s the gun or the exhaustion but I still slept like a log.

miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom – Yellowstone

I’m not a fan of this place. It is truly amazing but way too many people
and infrastructure to fell the deepness of it all. road work, massive
gatherings in notable places, giant campers all over. It took some
determination to go through all that shit. And you have to pay the $20 7
day pass even if you just wanna go across the park. We did ride very close
to a bison minding his own business on the side of the road, that was cool,
but still fuck this place.

miscellaneous ben July 27, 2010

Trip of doom – bunk beds!


I feel like a kid.

miscellaneous ben July 26, 2010

Trip of doom – brandon being a giant dork

miscellaneous ben July 26, 2010

Trip of doom – campsite 2

miscellaneous ben July 26, 2010

Trip of doom – Grand Teton

miscellaneous ben July 26, 2010

Trip of doom – Paradise valley Montana


miscellaneous ben July 25, 2010

Trip of doom – Jackson valley

miscellaneous ben July 25, 2010

Trip of doom – lesson 1

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – brandon

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – that's all there was…


just need to keep busy, it was that or a full geological history of
Yellowstone.

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – first night

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – Jackson Wyoming


Le repos du guerrier

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – Idaho

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – Montpellier, Idaho

miscellaneous ben July 24, 2010

Trip of doom – bear lake

miscellaneous ben July 22, 2010

trip of doom – getting ready

mapHere’s an approximate map of the little loop we’re going for.

I.T., unix / linux ben July 22, 2010

process file descriptor count

I’ve recently had to deal with a process leaking file descriptors. The following command came in handy as a quick way to count how many file descriptors a process is using.

Let’s say that we want to count them for the process(es) called firefox:

[bash]ps -ae | grep firefox | perl -lane ‘print $F[0]’ | while read filename; do ls /proc/$filename/fd; done | wc -w[/bash]

TADAA!

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