thanks Atlantic Ocean for keeping me from freezing for the past week ( Read more... )

my perfectly fine acer notebook best buy only model (5735z) is almost the nicest computer I've ever had (other than my old dual opteron server with the esata raid). 16:9 screen, 'dual core' merom cpu (1 meg of layer 2 cache, they laser cut the other meg if it's bad and sell the otherwise fine core2 chips as 'dual core') 2 gig of ddr2 667 (i know, ( Read more... )

climed Cascade mountain yesterday, no time for it's neighbor Porter. Both are above 4000 feet. the wind was brutal at the top, awesome. wish i had a video of it. our pace was slowed by a member of the 3 person party who is doing the midlife thing. Tons of couples were on the mountain, in the light to medium rain. why do i not deserve to have a ( Read more... )

link for my own reference

http://mombat.org/index.htm

i should have gone to bed hours ago but there wasn't much reason.

last thursday the string band Luminescent Orchestrii rocked the house at Second Story bookstore. this is the kind of thing i wish happened all the time. well it does, just not where i live. it felt like i should have been in Montreal. or NYC of course, the band is in fact from Brooklyn ( Read more... )

put 30 miles on the bike today. that's about 80 for the week. i need to carb up more, and eat more in general. this ride was a little faster than average at 16.1 mph. the outgoing leg was 16.7 but i slowed down when it got cold ( Read more... )

If I was born with the ability to apply what I can do at least at an 80% level, I'd be in a better place, at least fiscally. Got another paper to write, it's only an outline and first draft. About something of my choosing, just a standard essay. I mean come on, it doesn't get easier. Well it does, it could be solving all the forces in a truss with ( Read more... )

www.ned.com ( Read more... )

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ldn/783766933.html

Usually I'm out on the town alone and awkward, but I had 2 different wingmen, for lack of a better word, on friday. After crashing on the usual red velvet couch, went out to a church rummage sale, where a super 8 projector came home with us. After being entertained by getting the projector working, it was time to head to a burrito bash for another ( Read more... )