John Boyd Thacher State Park

John Boyd Thacher State Park, is situated along the Helderberg Escarpment, one of the richest fossil-bearing formations in the world. Even as it safeguards six miles of limestone cliff-face, rock-strewn slopes, woodland and open fields, the park provides a marvelous panorama of the Hudson-Mohawk Valleys and the Adirondack and Green Mountains. The park has volleyball courts, playgrounds, ball fields and numerous picnic areas with nine reservable shelters. Interpretive programs are offered year-round, including guided tours of the famous Indian Ladder Trail. There are over 25 additional miles of trails for summer hiking and mountain biking, and winter cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and snowmobiling.

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Albany Skyline

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Looking down from Hang Gliders Cliff at the City of Albany. I work in the upper mid-rise of Alfred E Smith Building, which looks so small from up here. It makes me realize how small us humans really are.

Sunday January 16, 2011 — John Boyd Thacher State Park

How big can you go? 💾

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The largest data unit supported by GNU coreutils is currently quebibytes which is 2^100 bytes, or roughly 1,267,650,600,228,229,334,133,120 megabytes or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 terrabytes. Ignoring the rounding errors of floating point calculations.

They estimate there is 44 zetabytes of electronic data in the world currently. One quebibyte is 24.4 million times larger than all then all digital data that currently exists in the world.

I Still Refuse to Have Internet

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I still refuse to have internet at my apartment. While a few years ago, I did break down and buy a very basic $45 a month smartphone, it does not have ability to sync with my laptop. And I’m quite fine with that fact.

For one, having the Internet would be an additional cost, something that my budget would struggle to include with such a priority placed on saving money towards my retirement and eventually affording land, an off-grid cabin, and hobby farm. The most basic plans would set me back $45 a month, plus taxes and fees, which would bring me up to over $60 a month — there simply is not $700-$800 extra a year burning a hole in my pocket.

But more fundamentally, I don’t like the idea of having the Internet to play with at home.  I like the exercise of either walking down to the Town Park or library, and I like keeping the Internet to a set part of my life — with time and boundaries. Granted, having a smartphone with Facebook and WordPress kind of breaks down the boundaries, but I phone is somewhat more limited then a full-time laptop.

If it was free I probably would use the Internet at home, but if I have pay a whole bunch of money, absolutely no. I doubt I would ever subscribe to an internet service.

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