Partly Sunny: 29° F, wind 0°@ 0 mph, visibility 9 mi, 74% humidity This morning’s weather My virtual odometer rolled past 3,500 this morning on what was a post card view of Seattle: clear as a bell, Olympic mountains dusted with snow, pink sunrise reflecting off their peaks. So cold, but oh so pretty! Too […]
Maybe they assume I’m sending the half-pound’s worth of items to the Moon instead of Chicago? It’s unlikely I’ll consummate this purchase transaction. Maybe instead I’ll rent a limo for the weekend. Greets to my friends at Amazon! (If only the items were in stock… )
So much for the free shipping… Read More »
This can’t be good… I use Windows most of the time, but needed to get a handle on what people are running. For reasons I don’t want to get into, my product requires several different executables to address combinations of data width (32- or 64-bit or Itanium 64-bit), kernal version (2.4 or 2.6) and the
BSoD screensaver and my dying laptop Read More »
Biking home through the snow yesterday afternoon was interesting. The only truly miserable part was when snowflakes flew into my eyes: at first it stings, then the snow melts and I can’t see out of that eye for a few blinks. Fortunately it wasn’t coming down hard until the last hill.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been this genuinely immersed into work, and I’ve been tapped out when it comes to discretionary creative blogging time. So, here’s a random fluttering of the last two weeks…
The Weather Channel never looked so good Read More »
Last weekend was my kid’s last soccer game of the “season.” Spectating in 43°F, rainy weather is much more miserable than biking in the same. At least with biking, I can hit the metabolic equilibrium and stay warm. As a bonus, I can expectorate and maintain my cycling game face (e.g., grimace). All of the
David called Thursday afternoon because once he had installed the disc brake, he realized the rack mount would interfere with the caliper. He worked on it Friday morning, adding a mini-extender. Though I didn’t relish driving into Seattle on a Friday afternoon, being off the bike for a whole week was making me jittery. Or
One of the persistent annoyances on my bike has been braking in wet weather, which we have a lot of these days. The rear brake is bolted just under the frame, right in the path of all the goopy muck being channeled by the rear fender. I’d been thinking about picking up a second, commuter