While rummaging through my study looking for an old tax return, I found my second grade report card. My handwriting still “Needs improvement.” The fourth and fifth grade report cards were more interesting because they were in a Q&A format, no letter grades assigned. Apparently I didn’t like the approach to Spanish instruction taken by […]
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[After I wrote this, I found Peter McKay’s writeup of his awful commute home. @#^* Wish him a speedy recovery.] John and I are both trying to ride 5,000 miles for the year. October was comparatively better in the number of days ridden and the miles per ride. (The motivation of not hitting my September
[Adult] What are you dressed as? [Nine year old] I’m Silvia, from “Two Gentlemen of Verona.” I don’t understand the teenagers who cruise around at 8pm, after the younger kids have depleted the candy stores. Though I display the universal signs of “go away” (lights out, shades drawn), they still ring the doorbell. “I’m out
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I saw an interesting meme on Uncertain Principles (originated by Cut to the Chase). The first list comes from Popular Mechanics 25 Skills every man should know. The list below, my “skills” in bold: Patch a radiator hose Protect your computer Rescue a boater who has capsized Frame a wall Retouch digital photos Back up
Public service announcement on behalf of Franz Loewenherz, Project Manager of the City of Bellevue Transportation Commission. — Jim After months of public input, including focus groups and online surveys, the city has drafted potential updates and improvements to the network of bike and pedestrian-friendly paths, lanes and trails in Bellevue. The draft network plan
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Dear Jonathan, Last month I installed the Java development kit so I could play at home. My dalliance with programming was fun. However, rolling out a beta for a major release soon demanded my full attention. I had forgotten about Java’s existence on my desktop until I happened to be doing some system cleanup. Oh,
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Costco called last night to let me know the tires I ordered were in — not that I expected to wait long for a set of all-weather radials compatible a 2002 Subaru, especially in this neck of the woods. I drove today, anticipating I’d be able to escape work early and have them mounted. On
With my products’ release imminent, I spent last weekend coaxing Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (ECC) into action. The ECC is appealing for a few reasons: It’s someone else’s high-throughput network – product distributions, especially with demo files, are in the hundreds of megabytes. The T1 at work is 1.4Mb/s. Sharing, firewalls, and proxies reduce my