Well, I'm out of shape. Ride just over seventeen miles, and I'm tuckered out. My legs are sore, and I'm not sure tomorrow that I'll be completely cool with my relatively modest need to ride nine miles. However, I no longer think of the South Bay as pure suburban hell. It's also a pretty nice place to bicycle, I rode six miles on El Camino Real ( Read more... )

Write a driver to encode hi-def video on your home coax to all the TVs in your house!

A few years ago, a clever guy named Fabrice Bellard figured noticed that video card output signals and VHF TV are close in frequency. He did thisPretty sharp, eh? The trick is in those grayscale images. They contain a DVB-T encoded image, DVB-T is a television ( Read more... )

I'm very happy to share a consumer rights story today with an happy ending ( Read more... )

When I told a friend of mine I wrote the SAT, he was genuinely confused. To a speaker of American English, this sounds like you're claiming to have written the questions on the exam. So don't use "to write" this way in America. I thought, like a lot of my english that Americans don't understand, it was British. It isn't! It's not exactly ( Read more... )

For the last few months, ION television has been showing two episodes of M*A*S*H daily. Effective yesterday, they cancelled it. I was sad to see it; I use an antenna so unlike in a cable world, I probably won't have M*A*S*H on TV for some time ( Read more... )

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In the car on Saturday, en-route to Montreal:

Me: We're going to Montreal!

Nicholas: (upset) But I don't WANT to go in a TREE!

I was feeling pretty proud of myself today. I was riding into work, listening to my stereo. I replaced the speakers last night and this morning in both doors on the car, and for the first time in a while the sound was really good ( Read more... )

So, last year, while I was out for a race, I got somewhat drunk at an after-race banquet, and ended up buying a year's membership in a third yacht club; the Cottage Park Yacht Club. It's in Winthrop, MA, and the clubhouse is if anything, a shorter drive from my home than my current club ( Read more... )