Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2010
There was a set of road trips this weekend. Friday night after a post-work nap, I drove downtown and wound up in San Antonio. I pondered long and hard about getting on I-10 and driving east or west. I think it would be kinda be neat to go over to Louisiana to see the environment […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2010
I do a lot of reading on my iPhone. Beyond e-mail, news and Twitter, wherever I light I spent more time reading lengthy whitepapers, vendor documentation, and the occasional blog post. Scrolling around and pinching on a little screen to see details of illustrations or the next column gets old after a while. So, I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2010
Now that I’ve sort of solved north for the time being, I need a new destination. I’m told I absolutely must go catch a shuttle launch before the fleet is retired later this year. This may or may not be possible with a standard road trip. The remaining launch dates are on Thursdays and Fridays, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2010
Friday I decided to go on a roadtrip after work. I basically wanted to see how far north I could make it in a weekend. The dream for a while has been to make it to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which is due north of me. After doing some map work, the mileage says this is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2010
At a last minute urging I went to the Austin “get-Google-to-lay-FTTH” Big Gig party last night. I got to catch up with some of my colleagues from my last job, and met several new people, including (surprisingly) a group of attractive, chatty young ladies who were there as part of the co-“tweetup”. A good time […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2010
Since we’re being dragged kicking and screaming into the great scam that is “cloud computing”, I decided to go try it out sight unseen. I’ve wanted a VPS in Singapore with IPv6 for a while, and somebody pointed out that Voxel has a dual-stack cloud offering in Singapore. I punched in my info, hit order, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2010
I’ve been rather astounded by the life of my brake pads on the truck. After thinking about it I realized I’ve been running on factory brake pads all these years. A few times I thought about replacing them myself but never got around to it. My friends claim it is not possible, that I surely […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
Dear people posting cars on auto trading websites: stop saying “Cambiocorsa GT”. The two terms are mutually exclusive. Coupe Cambiocorsa uses an F1 gearbox, Coupe GT uses and ordinary foot clutch.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
I was super bored this evening, didn’t want to think about work, and I didn’t want to get tweaked out on coffee. Instead I went running for three miles in the gym. Looking over my notes, the last time I put on my running shoes was October 2007. Prior to that, my last sponsored run […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2010
My original photoshop of a fark photoshop has made the network nerd rounds, now it lives on in t-shirt form. The image changed for the shirt because I didn’t have a bigger original. On one hand, there is a surprising number of stock photos of crying little kids on Getty Images and other internets. On […]
