orbital

Seen Hackers? The opening credits kick off with Orbital’s Halcyon and On and On set to a flyover. I had a moment like that this eve at twightlight. The light was just right, the road was completely deserted, and the tune came on via random play. The next thing I knew, I was doing 140 […]

threadless

It’s finding stuff like this that makes the interweeb fun to browse. Not so fun is realizing you’re a bit of a sick fuck for finding it really funny, and wanting one. I think I’ll be buying myself an early Christmas present or two. Threadless is a great idea – a place for designers/artists to […]

new cool toy

I’ve been using the new(ish) Polar 625X, and I have to say I’m impressed. It measures pretty much anything you’d want it to while running – heart rate, speed, distance, altitude (for incline/decline info), pace, and temperature – and also works with a couple cycling attachments to do all of the above plus cadence and […]

truth in my inbox

This arrived in my inbox this afternoon. Maybe I’m a tiny bit cynical, becuase I found it to be one of those “it’s funny ’cause it’s true” kind of deals: As I mature I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give […]

friday kneecap

To all the people that realize “oh, shit, it’s the end of the week” and then forward escalations they’ve been sitting on all week to me at 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon: “if you see me with a ball peen hammer or adze and I’m walking towards you, it’s best get as far away from […]

friday is time-wasting day

Ok, a couple of time-wasters, since it’s Friday. First, we have a clip from Whose Line is it Anyways that had me in tears. Next up is a flinch-inspiring video of bike couriers as they pedal maniacally around Manhattan. This clip was originally reported via the October 8th edition of memepool.com, but downloading the video […]

stupid OS tricks

Apparently, XP will cache nameserver lookup errors. This is really stupid. I was making some changes last night and adding some entries to zones. I forgot to restart named, and was getting errors when attempting to connect to the host by name. I restarted named, still no joy, and then I started browsing logs to […]

happiness is…

diving for the disc on D, making the block, and watching the guy who thought he had a sure catch clamp down on nothing but air calling for the disc, blowing the shoes off a guy half your age, and catching a nicely thrown hammer from a friend in the endzone playing a team who […]

that’s not thunder

…and it sure doesn’t look anything like Ray Bradbury‘s classic short story, either. From the looks of the trailer, I’ll be staying far, far away from “A Sound of Thunder:” when the movie is released. It’s one of my favorite, and most memorable, sci-fi short stories. It looks like the movies going to take all […]