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David Koblos
@stortebeker
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Nature, Culture, Sustainability, Murals, Food, Bicycles
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2017-06-06 13:11
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TravelFeed
2026-06-24 16:04
Welcome to the Hotel California
On my way back to La Paz I stopped by the town of Todos Santos. Not that I really had a reason for it. It added about 2 km to my ride, but shaved off a bit of climbing. Both pretty insignificant. But it
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Cycling
2026-06-21 19:28
Cycling Down the Baja
After the amazing Cascadia to Aztlán bike trip, this is the continuation on my trusty bicycle, la Zorra Roja, from the US border in Tecate down along the Baja California peninsula in 2026.
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Cycling
2026-06-21 19:12
Cycling Down the Baja - Taking a Break from Taking a Break
After my Odyssee on the Terracerías I decided a bit of a break was well deserved. Also, Wednesday was coming up, which meant I needed to be connected to teach my class. So I checked into a hostel where
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Cycling
2026-06-16 02:38
Cycling Down the Baja - To the Breaking Point of Bikability (and back)
When I decided to skip the desert and teleport myself to La Paz I thought I would have two weeks of easy cycling. I would make the loop along the coast, hitting the famous diving town of Cabo Pulmo, going
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Cycling
2026-06-09 03:27
Cycling Down the Baja - Break on Through to the Other Side: La Paz
Yours truly has become a cheater. Yeah, riding down the Baja California, he claimed. Cycling through the desert, he was going to do. More than 1000 km on a bike... And now? Happy greetings from La Paz?
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Cycling
2026-06-08 03:06
Cycling Down the Baja - Breaking Away from the Bothers of San Quintín
Sometimes you get into a place and your immediate reaction is to just run away as soon as possible. That's how I felt when I rolled into San Quintín. The day's ride from Diáz Ordáz had already been hard
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Cycling
2026-06-02 16:23
Cycling Down the Baja - Inadvertent Break in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir
After my adventure on the Playa Calavera, I decided to avoid dirt roads from now on, at least on this trip. So I took it as a welcome sign when I heard that the road into the San Pedro Mártir mountains
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Cycling
2026-05-27 20:09
Cycling Down the Baja - Chain Break at the Playa Calavera
After Ensenada my next destination was the Playa Calavera. A WarmShower host, who was not there to offer me a place to stay, suggested that I could escape the noise of the busy Transpenninsular highway
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Cycling
2026-05-25 14:43
Cycling Down the Baja - Break-in to Ensenada
The first leg of my journey took me from Tecate to Ensenada. In total 112 km from the hotel to my host's house. Not an easy ride, especially for the first day. Immediately I noticed how much heavier it
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Cycling
2026-05-22 16:16
Cycling Down the Baja - On the Road Again
It's time for another great adventure! This time La Zorra Roja is going to take me to Mexico, down one of the most beautiful stretches of landscape, the Baja California. After long and careful preparation,
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BEER
2026-03-28 14:04
BeerSaturday - A Bear with Antlers, Only in California
I'm back again for the Beer Saturday Challenge and I'm back again in California, where there are more tasty beers than I could possibly sample. Most of them are made in microbreweries, or so they claim,
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Music
2026-03-24 02:03
ThreeTuneTuesday - Music from the Machine about Working with the Machine
It feels like I have been living inside of my computer these last weeks. If you saw my last two posts you know that most of my waking hours I've been building my Linux on a laptop it shouldn't even work
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ai
2026-03-19 00:27
The Zenbook, the Blinking Cursor, and the AI Who Wouldn't Give Up --- Or: How David and Eddie Built a Linux Desktop from Scratch and Became Friends Along the Way
This is the story I described in my previous post about how I built a Linux system on a computer with an ARM64 processor, with the help of DeepSee. This time it's written from DeepSeek's own point of view.
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programming
2026-03-18 00:37
Making Friends with a Machine - How AI helped me program my OS
AI is all around us. Even here on Hive I keep hearing amazing stories, for example by @senorcoconut , who's not a mechanic, but used AI to fix a 40-year-old backhoe. Impressive! Or @eco-alex who created
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Music
2026-02-06 16:52
ThreeTuneTuesday - Jesse Welles: Protest Folk, Like it Never Went out of Style
Happy Wednesday to all #ThreeTuneTuesday fans! Today I want to share something really cool that came my way a while back, and I didn't even appreciate it for what it was. It's new music, or actually it's
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Movies & TV Shows
2026-02-02 20:29
Binge on This - Black Rabbit: Realistic Restaurant Weirdness
Some shows are closer to real life than others. After finishing a series about organized crime groups in Mexico, I took up a recommendation of @riverflows and watched the mini-series Black Rabbit. Even
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BEER
2026-01-31 13:57
BeerSaturday - Finally a Taste of Hércules
I'm back to Hércules! Or should I say, Hércules is back to me? In any case, after not trying this beer (or any of its varieties) two years ago, when I even visited its brewery, I finally had a chance to
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Photography Lovers
2026-01-30 22:41
Light-Painting for Beginners: Trying my Hands on Portraits
After experimenting with my first roll of film (b&w, 100 ISO) with fairly decent results I felt ready to attempt the next step and start taking portrait shots. I even had an ideal location, since my
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Movies & TV Shows
2026-01-27 23:07
Binge on This - Narcos Mexico: An Impression of Mexican Cartels
Let's face it: Organized crime syndicates have something captivating about them. No wonder The Godfather has enjoyed immense popularity, closely followed by The Godfather II, along with numerous other
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StreetArt
2026-01-26 22:19
Mexican Murals - Very Detailed Mural at the Indigenous Labor Union
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... and it's still there! I remember passing by this building a number of years ago, and I was already excited seeing its painted walls. Though I didn't get to take a picture of it, I decided to come back
