Josh Levinger http://www.levinger.net/josh This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:02:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Master of Media http://www.levinger.net/josh/2010/08/06/master-of-media http://www.levinger.net/josh/2010/08/06/master-of-media#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:02:12 +0000 Josh Levinger http://www.levinger.net/josh/?p=890 Finished my thesis on the Boycott Toolkit and handed it in at 4:50 on a Friday. It’s online as a PDF for your reading pleasure. Thanks to everyone who helped me make it a reality.

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  • 4326.4 mi on 140.25 gallons of gas, for an avg 30.84 mpg
  • 18 states (NH MA CT NY NJ PA OH IN IL WI MN SD NE CO UT AZ (briefly, spent no $) NV and finally CA
  • 15 days
  • five moose
  • 400+ buffalo
  • one five foot rattlesnake
  • 287 MIT nerds in Vegas
  • 15,000 foot skydive
  • and two badass new room-mates

Flying back to Boston tonight finish up at the lab, so my west coast residence isn’t quite permanent yet, but I’ll leave my heart (and all my stuff) in Berkeley.

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Assume the position

Assume the position

Going up

Going up

Looking out

Looking out

Heading down

Heading down

Shocking Freefall

Shocking Freefall

A little bit of drool

A little bit of drool

Steering the chute

Steering the chute

Still psyched

Still psyched

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Hiking in Zion NP

Hiking in Zion NP

View from our campsite

View from our campsite

Ruth is skeptical of hiking

Ruth is skeptical of hiking

Rattlesnake!

Rattlesnake!

Almost there

Almost there

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Utah!

Utah!

Dinosaur NP

Dinosaur NP

Ruth finds a dino bone

Ruth finds a dino bone


Buffalo

Buffalo

Buffaloes

Buffaloes

Practicing Rustling

Practicing Rustling

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Alpine Views

Alpine Views

Continental Divide

Continental Divide

Moose

Moose

Meese

Meese

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Badlands

Badlands

Minuteman Silo

Minuteman Silo

Dinosaur at Wall Drug

Dinosaur at Wall Drug

Ruth and President Polk

Ruth and President Polk

Mt Rushmore

Mt Rushmore

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

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Deke Slayton

Deke Slayton

Prairie God?

Prairie God?

Ruth and Cornelius

Ruth and Cornelius

Mars Cheese Castle

Mars Cheese Castle

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Mars Cheese Castle

Mars Cheese Castle

Hammerschlagen

Hammerschlagen

Dead Squirrel Bar

Dead Squirrel Bar

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Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Library

Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Library

Chicago

Chicago

At the "Denny's in the Sky"

At the "Denny’s in the Sky"

Chicago Dog

Chicago Dog

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