gabriel mcgovern
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Hello World
Sometimes, I find myself feeling spread thin across the internet. There are the websites I maintain and the blogs that I publish content to. There are also the unintelligible comments I tend to leave scattered around.
So, consider this an attempt to gather all of the pieces. Perhaps it will help to paint a better picture of who I am.
My resume is available if you are interested - feel free to download a copy. However, I can guarantee that it will already be out of date by the time you read it. Contact me directly for more current information.
Expertise
examples of:Aliases
that I go by:- gabrielm - BoingBoing
- gabrielmcgovern - gotoandplay
- gabrielm - lifehacker/gizmodo
- slash5-toaster - ebay
Featured Post: Down to the Southwest
We just spent the last two weeks down in the southwest. I wrote some trail logs of our adventures, but it may take some time to post those on the web. For now, I just wanted to get a quick synopsis and some photos up.
I flew down to meet Sam in Reno, NV. After a night in the crazy neon of the downtown casinos, we took off and headed west along highway 50. Later, we would learn that this road is nicknamed "the loneliest road in America". Between the small towns, there are just hundreds of miles of desert and rolling mountains.
Our first stop was the Great Basin national park on the ot...
Posted on 2007-08-20 | 1 comment(s)
@ work
- Initialized a WordPress blog
- 2006-10-21: I like to fly - although I don't do it often and the cabin pressure seems to screw with my head. Also, there is that dreaded feeling of rush, even when you arrive hours early for your flight. Sam drop...
- On the ground at O'hare
- 2006-10-22: On the ground at O'hare, the rushed feeling took over again as I set out to find my connecting flight. This is one large airport and although it may not sound far on paper, going from gate K13 to G9...
- Well it looks like setup worked
- 2006-10-22: My flight landed around 8pm and they didn't want to give me my luggage back. Because the plane was so small, they had forced me to valet check-in a bag and I had lost the ticket. When I finally got it...
- Conference Update
- 2006-10-22: Out my windowSo far, the conference has been great. The day started with a quick registration, some food and then the pre-work shops. I was signed up for the "Paper Prototyping" hosted by the Penn Sta...
- Keynote just started.
- 2006-10-23: Keynote just started. The presenter, Todd Markelz looks like a 15-year-old stuffed into a suit - though I doubt that I would look good up there right now. Need more coffee... The keynote got got mu...
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- There are total of 90 postings.
@ play
- Ghost Chili (4)
- 2007-03-10: Last November, I read this article on BoingBoing about the crowning of a new capsasin king. At a 1,000,000 scoville units, the Bhut Jolokia from southern India is over 100 times hotter than any jalap...
- Pepper Envy
- 2007-09-25: Back in March, I spoke about the the Ghost Chilies that I had planted. Like many peppers, these thrive best with a long, hot growing season. Unfortunately, this summer in Portland provided neither....
- Bike Commute Challenge (2)
- 2007-09-09: I was not sure whether to post this under work, or play. Portland Community College is currently participating in the Bicycle Transportation Alliance's Bike Commute Challenge. When I star...
- Down to the Southwest (1)
- 2007-08-20: We just spent the last two weeks down in the southwest. I wrote some trail logs of our adventures, but it may take some time to post those on the web. For now, I just wanted to get a quick synopsi...
- Puppies and Kittens (7)
- 2007-06-01: The new camera just came in at work - a Nikon D40X. I decided to bring it home over the weekend and get some practice. Posted below are some sickeningly sweet pictures for you to enjoy. T...
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- There are total of 52 postings.