April 06, 2006
Joe Goes Global
It seems like everyone is mobile these days. (Except me!) Friend of HDTD Joseph Eros is wandering this old Earth as well, and you can read about it at the site Joe Across Asia.
I have a commitment to be at Baku on May 14 to catch the Caspian ferry. I hope to get there by way of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Belgium, France, Corsica, Sardinia, and then cross Italy and go up the Adriatic coast before heading southeast to Istanbul. Then I'll cross Turkey and visit all three Caucasian countries (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) before joining my group in crossing Turkmenistan.After Turkmenistan, I'll be in Uzbekistan for about a week visiting an old friend, and after that I hope to cross into Tajikistan and take the Pamir Highway to the Kyrgyz Republic. I'll definitely be crossing into far Western China from Kyrgyzstan.
In China, I hope to take the Silk Road route to Xian, then go to Baektusan on the North Korean border before heading south to Hong Kong by way of Shanghai. I'll fly home from Hong Kong.
As we used to say, go-o-o-o Joe!
Posted by coyu at April 6, 2006 10:16 PMlol. Count us as another et of global runners. To and from Ukraine with a day spent in London each way. Wee!
weeee...
Hey, Carlos, when are you going to do another paleo* post? IDK if I will get to do a paleoclimate sim, but the climatologist I have been talking to has been uber interested in the proposals that I sent him. I guess getting access to a 70+ teraflop system and getting 120+ TB of data generated tickled his interest! :D I have interest from the file system vendor, the storage vendor, the user (duh), and some cautious interest from a telecom. I have to talk to the system vendors, esp the big one we're buying, and preferably the other two big system vendors too. There are some nontrivial issues, technical and otherwise, to overcome, but if there is a Will There is a Way.
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Posted by: Will Baird at April 7, 2006 07:45 PMThank you, Mr. Coyu, for pointing this out. To know what to read, we often have to know what there is to be read...I'm happy to add someone this interesting my reading lists. I would have completely missed this on my own.
Thanks again...and Yes, Gooooooo Joe...and good luck.
Best Wishes,
Traveller
Posted by: Traveller at April 8, 2006 11:53 AMDoug: Re your comment on my blog; I don't have your contact information. It would be best to send it to my gmail address.
I have planned for backtracking to Georgia from Armenia; when I went to the Azeri embassy they told me that "We have no border with Armenia."
Thanks again, and I look forward to seeing all of you.
Joe
Posted by: Joseph Eros at April 12, 2006 12:19 PM