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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2010
Beware of the good idea fairy. This sprite not only plants the seed of faulty ideas in the brains of soldiers, but also people in IT.
