G+ takes care of my semi-private blogging now.

I have been dreaming for months about cycling off the main roads. There are so many roads in Oregon(and elsewhere up/down the coast) that extend beyond civilization ( Read more... )

I like making software for the feeling of making something out of very little. For the past few weeks I've been trying to branch out into real life. Made(+blew up) a basic power supply circuit, converted some battery-powered lights to be usb-powered, etc.

Today I had some time, decided to investigate oogoo. Finally, a non-evil-food-ingredient/ ( Read more... )

While in Ukraine a purchased a book on Makhno(world's first[and only?] successful anarchist). Man, never underestimate WWI. The end of WWI coincided with massive regime change that resulted in Soviet union. Reading about what was going on *JUST* on the territory of Ukraine makes head spin. There were Frenchies, Hungarians, British, Tatars, Germans ( Read more... )

I arrived at the airport on time despite accidentally taking the wrong subway for a few stops(twice!). I kinda expected that I'd get confused in a new metropolis, so I allowed plenty of time for mistakes, no problem.

TechI picked a Delta flight this time because my coworkers have been raving about using wifi on the plane and how it makes flights ( Read more... )

Ellen was worried about being unfairly discriminated against for being a woman in Ukraine... Well we haven't run into that problem yet, but my gradma racked up pretty good Taraspoints while shopping for groceries ( Read more... )

This was the best labour day weekend ever. (sorry for the mix of units below)

FridayI took a day off this Friday hoping that my last vacation day will be put to good use. It was, we did a puny 15mile bike ride to a hardware store in blistering heat. The ride beat the crap out of my recovering-from-a-cold self. But it was sunny, felt good to be ( Read more... )

So we got a ton of yummy groceries. I had the foresight to get 12L of pickles.


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Today I managed to get a pretty significant hole in a tubular(this gets me up to 3 since I started riding them this summer)...Except this time after much angry sealant-fuming it sealed successfully. It must've been a decent-sized hole since it took about a minute to seal. The key was to keep riding and not stop...So I ended up riding about 20/ ( Read more... )

Had a busy week and it's not even over yet ( Read more... )