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My phone died (well, rather, failed to have infinite battery life) Monday night and therefore, missed three phone calls from the Raleigh Police Department. They were able to go out Monday night, pay a call upon the hopefully bruised-shinned fellow and put him in custody.

So, Tuesday afternoon when I realized I had a number of messages waiting, I ( Read more... )

Back in March, I had a great opportunity to buy a mountain bike at REI. f_4_t's preferred mode of cycling is that involving lots of whoopdy-dos and dirt. And since for the first few months of our relationship, she'd been a sport and kept up with me on her mountain bike while we were on the Greenway or road-riding, I figured I'd give true off-road ( Read more... )

As previously noted, I spent a few hours Saturday at BarCampRDU. I hit six sessions and feel all were in some way valuable.

• Camping in 10 slides
• GTD (David Allen's Getting Things Done)
• Test Driven Development
• Limits of Technology
• Open services

Reading about Science Foo Camp on Daring Fireball led me to the link about Foo Camp. Seeing as I was at BarCampRDU earlier today and not fully aware of the origin of the term, I clicked more.

I'll work at webifying my outline from the session tomorrow.

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I don't really keep-up with podcasts, or lately, my RSS feeds and friends list, but when I have taken the time to catch up on a couple of podcasts, I find two music-related podcasts compelling tonics to the general pap of modern music:
NPR's All Songs Considered.

Bob Boilen directs All Things Considered. As part of the show, he's responsible ( Read more... )

f_4_t and I are signed up for BarCampRDU.

f_4_t is still on pager duty and normally, that means avoiding things like movies. Well, that went out the window tonight, with Ratatouille.

I knew in the first few minutes from the smile that affixed itself that this would be a film I gushed about. Great story, great plot and not one thing about the film felt out of place or forced. It never felt ( Read more... )

f_4_t and I have back-to-back pager weeks, which means two weeks of trying to not get cabin fever but also not making firm plans, seeing movies in the theaters or dining at fancy restaurants. She's taken to calling it something along the lines of "Life on the 10-minute leash." Staying close to wi-fi is high value.

Aside from carrying a low level of ( Read more... )