San Diego Trip Photos from Balboa Park

There's a lot to see in Balboa Park, perhaps just too much for one day.  We weren't in the mode for museums, so we focused on the outdoor attractions on this beautiful San Diego late fall day.

San Diego, Los Angeles, La Jolla, San Diego Safari Park, San Diego Harbor

Trip as life event

San Diego Trip Photos from Sailing in the Harbor

Sailing on the San Diego Harbor was fun and relaxing.  We got to see some unexpected sights, though dolphins were nowhere to be found on this day.

San Diego, Los Angeles, La Jolla, San Diego Safari Park, Balboa Park

Trip as life event

San Diego Adventure Photos from the Zoo

San Diego Zoo

This zoo is indeed big with lots of animals to see.  Alice and I spent a day here, but it seems like two days is more practical to see everything at a reasonable pace and planning.  We missed a lot of the famous animals, unfortunately. The zoo is big and incredible.

Photos from the following days:

Sailing the harbor
Balboa Park
San Diego Safari Park
La Jolla
Los Angeles

Trip as life event

Trail 43 - Fall of the impending Winter

It's been while since I went for a hike at a location covered in 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Denver and Boulder. I made it to Hike #43 from this book, South Boulder Creek Trail from Bobolink Trailhead. This is a fairly flat trail with a very slow incline. The trail is unusual, in that it splits between a paved path and a gravel-and-dirt path for a short stretch. The paved route is intended to support cycling, though cyclists were using both routes.

The trail follows fairly close to the right bank of the South Boulder Creek throughout the northern half of its length, and the left bank for the Southern half. The creek flows south to north.

Near the trailhead, there's a lot of shade on the unpaved route, but most of the trail is in open space. Wear sunscreen, as there's very little shade.  Additionally, the trail crosses both South Boulder Road and US Route 36 via underpasses.

Even for Midautumn, the vegetation was surprisingly brown with empty trees. It's pretty for Fall and Winter, particularly with a blue sky and the Flatirons as a backdrop.

Given the time of year, I didn't expect to see much wildlife. Even still, there were some curious cows in one of the fields. The hike was enjoyable and leisurely.

One warning about the creek.  Apparently, there's a New Zealand Mudsnail infestation. So, there's signs at several locations warning hikers (and their dogs) not to go into the creek (to make sure they aren't accidentally carrying this little invasive critters to other places in Colorado).

New Patent issued

  

Linking views/states of 3d models and propagating updates in same

Japan Patent 7357715

Issued: Sept 28, 2023

Inventors: Felipe Martínez Quiroz and Matthew Lorono

Linking of 3D views within a 3D model, such as saved views and presentation states, into parent and child relationship. Automatically propagate changes to child views and their associated annotations when the orientation and other aspects of the parent view are changed, where the child views change to remain at the same relative orientation to the parent view, and where the annotations of a child view are modified so that their orientations are aligned with changes to the orientation of the associated child view.

[Normally, the US patent is first to be issued (ahead of international patents). However, in this case, the Japanese Patent Office worked faster than the USPTO; so it's the issuance of Japanese Patent that marks this achievement. I like the Japanese patent certificate.]

Patent link

Leezakaya, new Japanese-style restaurant in Aurora, CO

 

Looks like we have a new neighbor

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Wild berries and flowers from the bramble

 

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Some experiences at 3DXPERIENCE World 2023

Here's some photos of experiences at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023, in reverse order from last at the top to first at the bottom.  Plenty of end-users, coworkers and other business associates; and plenty of interesting sites.  I thought about posting these up on my SOLIDWORKS Legion blog.  However, these are my personal experiences at the work event, and my personal blog is better suited for a photo album such as this.  Also, many (not all)  of these photos appear on my Instagram feed.  I've included a link to the first photo in this list for a hook to when these were posted.

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