Comrade programmers!
About five years ago I wrote a little program to help me find numeric patterns in arrays. Basically I needed to find byte patterns like 0xFFFE 0xE000 in the data from DICOM files. Something like MATLAB’s strfind function, except more general than looking for substrings in strings.
So I wrote a rather naïve […]

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Here’s a little something for the MATLAB lovers out there who also program in C++. The code sample at the end of this post shows how to add a C++ iterator to an mxArray, which is the basic datatype for MATLAB arrays. This makes it harder to walk off the end of an […]

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“The other day, I saw a bear. A great big bear, a way out there. . .”
Driving back to East Glacier one day, we decided to count the different kinds of (larger) animals we saw on our trip: mule deer, prairie dogs, black bears, mountain goats, brook trout, magpies, ravens, goldfinch, pronghorn, elk, bison, pelicans, marmots, […]

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“Jeff, we demand pictures! You’ve been back for two weeks. How long can it take?”
Alright. Alright. But you’re only going to get a rough timeline.

Downtown Denver

Coors Field, Denver

At low elevation, ca. 7,000 feet (Rocky Mountain NP, Colorado)

On our first hike, ca. 8,500 feet (Rocky Mountain NP, Colorado)

Lunch spot (Rocky Mountain NP, […]

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Blackfeet Nation, Montana
It’s taking me longer than I had hoped, but you can expect to see photographs and details about our Western swing soon. . . .

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Downtown Casper, Wyoming
I picked up twenty sheets of developed 4×5″ film from the lab today. Although I made hundreds of photographs with my digital camera, these were certainly the most enjoyable to produce and also the ones that filled me with the most trepidation. I’m pleased to report that the results were rather […]

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I love farm toys. My grandfather used to build the real tractors in Waterloo for John Deere, and he would give us 1/16 scale toys when we were kids. After he retired, he decided to rebuild an old Oliver, just to keep busy.
While we were in Billings, we stopped into Action Toys, the […]

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Apparently, the West does not have a good system of Internet tubes. And the ones I was able to tap into I mainly used for homework.
We will return you to regularly scheduled programming soon. . . .

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Today we went to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. It’s a lot of fun, with a little something for everyone.
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Longs Peak - Rocky Mountain NP (Click for larger)
The early part of our travels led us to the northwestern-most point of the first federally funded expedition to the west which included professionally trained scientists and artists. Unlike the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, the infamous Zebulon Pike trip to Colorado and the myriad […]

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Yesterday (day #8 of our trip) Lisa, my mom, her husband, and I drove about a half-hour west of town to the Freeland Cemetery. Mom had noticed that I have an interest in old-timey cemeteries, so she thought it would be fun to go see a frontier version.
Right around lunchtime, Barry Horn stopped by […]

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Last night we went to a baseball game. The Casper Ghosts — no jokes please! — and the Ogden Raptors had played two complete innings of Rookie League (Advanced) minor league baseball when the umpires called the game on account of wind.
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A bit more than an hour later, we headed for the […]

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Yesterday (day #6 of our trip) we left Colorado and headed north to Wyoming. On the way we went over Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain NP.
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The image above is just a small section of a large panorama that Photoshop stitched together from forty-four different photographs. (I love the “Photomerge” […]

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Here’s a peek at what we did today. . . .
Copeland Falls - Rocky Mountain NP

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