Roger Hsu's Blog

Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Mar 16, 2003. What is it about physical injury that motivates me to do web development? A serious flu while in Banff put me out of commission for about a week and that’s what sparked the Version 2.0 redesign. This time, it was a lower back injury incurred the day after the Mammoth trip. This little incident put me out of physical activity for over 3 weeks and this is what I spent most of that time (plus a lot of additional time) doing. So what’s the big deal about this version? After all, it doesn’t look that much different from the last version [Although it doesn't look much different, it does look a lot different from my original intention. At the start, my plan was to introduce Version 3 without any cosmetic changes. As I progressed, however, I decided I might as well just go all the way and also modify the overall look of the site]. Well, to use a well-worn cliche, looks can be deceiving. The vast majority of the changes are more ...

Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Mar 10, 2003. Our first trip to Hueco was in December of 2002. It was a really fun trip, but I was lazy and didn’t take many pictures, and because there weren’t many pictures, I never created a trip report/web page. That’s too bad since there were some memorable events like the Whataburger (with Whatafries and Whatadrinks), the grunting little girl (I don’t think we’ll ever forget her!), cool climbing (where we met a friendly bunch from Arizona and the girl with the very, very long-term V4 project), our Hueco guide Patty, our first trip to the now-famous Cattleman’s Steak House, and probably a bunch of other things that I can’t remember anymore. :-( Dave Da Man We had such a great time that another trip was planned for the weekend of March 08. Aaron, Sean, and Ryan wanted to get three days of climbing in so they headed out on Thursday night while Patty, Kate, Judy, and myself headed out one day later on Friday. Our flight was around 4:30 so I ...