Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2006
The cycling trainer mocks me. Last night after a five minute L14 fitness test, which tries to roughly estimate my VO2 max, I discovered I lost my “elite” status and am now “above average”. boooooo
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2006
Last night at a party Burton and I got a craving for brisket. It was around midnight, which guaranteed everything was close. Apparently that wasn’t the case, a place called Sam’s BBQ on east 12th stays open until 2 AM. We went there and it was pretty typical east Austin, but they had some good […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2006
I finally finished installing my new Tarheel antenna on the truck. I needed a way to mount it up on the bed rail for the best performance yet be able to easily fold it down to clear the parking garage at work. I spent all week looking for a fold-down mount that would readily mount […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2006
A fun night of Krav Maga tonight. My head wasn’t there or something and I kept messing up and not doing drills right. On Tuesday I clipped my partner in the nuts with a straight kick, not enough to hurt him, but enough to make him say “woah”. Tonight was my turn, I got accidentally […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2006
Today was a fun day of Geocaching. I found three caches, struck out on two. The last one was an adventure in getting lost in white people suburbia. I had set out to find GCH3CZ, so I parked at the recommended dead-end street at the trailhead. Somehow I got off trying to go to the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2006
This morning I ventured up to Belton to the hamfest. It was an early crowd, when I got there at 11:30 people were already packing up their tables and leaving. Some new kit, but mostly old odd gear. I decided a while back I wasn’t going to get a Yaesu ATAS-120 after readng the horror […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2006
I don’t like the effect that “Web 2.0” is having on appearances of websites, namely logos. There’s no shortage of logo competitions out there, trying to take existing, well established logos and reinvent them with a new font, reflections, and a glazed look. The latest that I’ve seen is Cisco — their new logo has […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2006
Beware of the lemur. The Game of Disorientation – I love this game, it’ll totally screw with your head. I wish it went on longer.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2006
After careful consideration, I’ve decided the ham radio community is exactly like the Linux community. Except instead of teenagers, you’re dealing with fairly articulate greybeards. People who take themselves way too seriously, more with strong opinions that can’t *possibly* be proven incorrect, and lots of smackdown to anyone who is unaware or ignorant (usually newbies) […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2006
A hard hour of Krav Maga tonight. You know it’s a good class when you’re wreaking of somebody else’s sweat, it hurts your chest to breath, and your throat is bleeding. More please?
