Carl Hutzler’s Blog

My friend, Theoretical Ken, showed me this great blog from an Airline Pilot. Make sure to poke around in the archives. Its great reading.

Flight Level 390

My kids had a day off of school today for a teacher workday. What? A day off? How could that be since my kids just started school this week??!!, you ask?

Relax, its OK. This is not some kind of social worker emergency. My kids went back to school way back on July 30th as they are in one of these “all year” schools. So today was just a normal teacher workday break.

Anyway, my parents took the kids and I sailing on a boat co-owned/operated by my Dad and his two life long friends George Hess and Bill Kaufman. We sailed from the Magothy River just north of Anapolis, MD. We motored south and under the Bay Bridge and around some big freighters before actually putting out the jib and running a little. But there was not much of a breeze so we ended up motoring most of the way back too.

But we had a blast playing Scrabble and word games. The kids got to steer a bunch and a good time was had by all.

When we got back, we decided to find some crabs to round out a purely Maryland kind of day. $44 a dozen for some pretty good mediums. And they even came from the bay :-)

Found this Onion “news report” on Gizmodo.com. Pretty funny.

My brother, Paul, is currently driving from his home in Seattle, Washington to Skagway, Alaska with one of his friends. While this may seem like a wonderful summer vacation and a chance to see the great Northwest, trust me, its not what it seems. Read more

I was finally (terribly, thoroughly) bored with the look of my blog. It was the boring Wordpress “out of the box” style. I found some time to look at the 100’s of styles freely available and easily installable and found this one which I liked a lot.

It is called Gray Gets Green 1.0 by Fred Banuelos. His site is http://www. mexico.vg/

I took his original look and put in my own artwork and customized the font colors and paragraph widths a bit more to my liking.

I had to fix a few images that were too large for the new format, but I think it is OK now. Would be curious to know if the blog is showing up strangely for anyone….what browser, version, OS, etc if it is broke. Thanks.

Ewwwww, Ahhhhh. Full Frame goodness from Nikon. $5000…. honey?

A ways back in March of 2004, I worked with a number of bright people in the Internet and email communities on an anti-spam document. We attempted to explain how some fairly simple operational and architectural changes to the way email is submitted and transferred across the global mail infrastructure could provide better tracking and identification of the senders of bad email once it had been sent. This would, in-turn, better help show who was to blame for the problems. No, it would not identify the actual spammer directly, but these recommendations would help ensure that responsibility for the issue was handled by the correct “responsible party” instead of the big ISP getting blamed for blocking the little hosting company’s mail (now you know where I was coming from :-)

Anyway, we did not have any grandiose ideas that our thinking was cutting edge, new, or would stop spam on its own. But we wanted to document a number of best practices for network and email security that we felt would greatly benefit all internet users if ISPs would implement them. To that end, we wrote a document called Email Submission Between Independent Networks.

We submitted it to the RFC community and have received many informed comments and revised it several times. Thanks to the tremendous help of David Crocker, the grandfather of Internet mail (yes, look for his name in some sort of SMTP standard or something :-) we are finally to the point where it is approved as a Best Common Practice (sort of a mini RFC).

Anyway, I am proud to have worked with these folks and to be able to contribute a little something to the great Internet we find so valuable in our everyday lives.

Thank you to:

David Crocker of Brandenburg Internetworking
Pete Resnick of Qualcomm, Inc.
Robert Sanders of Earthlink
Eric Allman of Sendmail, Inc.
Tony Finch of the University of Cambridge

And might I say, Woo (explicative deleted) Hoo!

On Monday, August 13th, I flew to Salt Lake City to meet up with Davy Crockett, Brad Clements, and David Hansen for our annual “man trip” into the woods. As best we can remember, this is the 13th annual meeting of our group aptly named “A bunch of Mormons and a Jew”…..me being the jewish guy.

In years past we have visited many amazing places in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, California, and Arizona. This year we would hit Colorado for the first time and hike the Four Passes Loop trail near Aspen. The trail is in an area called the Maroon Bells and is a loop trail which circumnavigates the main feature of the area, Colorado’s 27th highest peak, Maroon Peak which stands at 14,156 feet.

Maroon Peak from Maroon Lake

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I am enroute to Apsen, Colorado to meet up with some friends for our annual “man trip” as my friends call it. This year we are hiking the four passes loop trail. But we have also decided to attempt to summit Maroon Peak (14,156 ft) which is one of the most photographed peaks in the Rocky Mountains.

The climb begins from the main four passes loop trail at around 10,000 feet and is very steep up to 13,500, but not terribly technical. But according to the photos and trail reports we have been reading, the rest of the trip to the summit is very difficult from a route finding and scrambling perspective. Everyone is wearing helmets in the pictures for some reason??! It looks scary to me and I have been in some scary places. I guess a good dose of fear goes a long way to being safe.

Route Description

But the view from the top promises to reward us if we make it…