Last week, I commuted to work every day, but took a different route each time ( Read more... )

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I decided to be productive today: I cleaned, I set up my workstation and booted my file server. I taped my wireless gateway to the window so the whole world can share. The tape didn't hold and it fell down. No worries, I taped it back up using twice as much tape. Walking out of the kitchen, I tripped over the phone cable running to the gateway ( Read more... )

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Six months in the city and I spotted a KFC for the first time. I didn't stop; but maybe one day I will venture back and try their infamous American menu ( Read more... )

The day after Lloydminster I started down Hwy 16 towards Edmonton after the morning rain had cleared. In typical Alberta fashion, the road was overbuilt, fast and full of oversized pickup trucks. Being overbuilt, there was enough space for everybody, so the traffic left me alone. However, it was still a far cry from the grid roads in ( Read more... )

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Over the holidays I acquired a bicycle. sjwalters left California and locked his bike behind my building.

It is an old Dawes Galaxy; built in the late 70s. According to Walters, it has been sitting in a garage for the last twenty years.


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I went home for a vacation over Christmas. I took my laptop; did some hacking in the airport (with Alex!); slept on the plane ( Read more... )

In my super awesome apartment, the only thing I have plugged in all the time is my refrigerator ( Read more... )