The Obsessed Programmer

I just watched the most deeply depressing movie every conceived–Deepa Mehta’s Water.  But as depressing as the feature film was itself, the DVD special features only made things worse. (more…)

Sundance is a beautiful thing for Park City. Sure, the town is crawling with annoying, angry, smoking, drinking Hollywood wannabes. There are more people on Main Street than at any other time during the year. And there are zero people on the ski slopes. In fact, the slopes are pretty deserted up until the next 3-day weekend (President’s day?)

A foot of fresh powder fell on Jupiter peak earlier this week. Jupiter is the back area of Park City Mountain Resort, and is actually as large as the rest of the entire resort combined. To get there, you have to take a half-mile-long road to the single 2-man slow chair lift that serves 8 expert (double-black) bowls. Due to the remote location, expert terrain, and old lift, Jupiter gets almost no attention despite its excellent snow conditions.

So, when I got stranded on the mountain with a big storm just 2 hours away, I was entirely alone. (more…)