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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
Bike parts shopping is fun
So, in between bouts of procrastinating the creation of my new cyclocross bike (working title: Azzuri Sporco), the new MEC catalog arrived. Always fun to see what’s in there. The best find in the bike section is probably these Freddy Speedeez. The Speedeez are total knock-offs of the popular and useful $50 SKS Race Blades, […]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Victorianism
I am in Victoria, and will be for another day. Butchart Gardens costs $23/person in the high season. It may be worth it. I shall say it is the most impressive garden I have ever experienced. There’s not much more to discuss about it, except that we took two hours to tour it in a […]
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Barcamp thoughts
Barcamp was awesome. Massive knowledge transfer. Half the workshops I attended were great, and I missed many more that I wanted to check out. I frightened DB by saying that I liked it so much I would attend one every month if they would organize it. Even the t-shirt was nice. Quick notes: Peter van […]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Great moments in Bar Camp
Me (this is paraphrased), talking to Beau Hartshorne about his day job, the web-based image editor Snipshot: “So, I guess you guys benefit from the sort of revision and versioning advantages that Paul Graham talks about?” “Yes. So you must know that Paul Graham invested in our company? He’s a really nice guy, by the […]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Notes towards a grumpy Barcamp presentation II: revision
“Ninety percent of everything is crud” – Sturgeon’s RevelationWith that principle in mind, I want to avoid burying all the things we hold dear (web 2.0, flickr, podcasting, bloggery, Darren Barefoot) just because 90% of them suck. If the suck rate was only 90%, we’d be doing great! I want to get at the inherent […]
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
At Bar Camp
Nerd fun: playing Mario Kart on some DSen. Yeah, we’re productive.
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
By special request: Imagining a CBC-Free Canada
Yay! I plan to use my share of the returned tax dollars to buy a video game. Well, more seriously, Darren Barefoot asked a serious question: he was wondering how Conservatives (which, rightly or wrongly, he seems to be imagining as opponents of the CBC in general. Well, I guess I’ll do: pretty definitively conservative […]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Remembering Vuvuc
Vuvuc the Cat, on its window sill Vuvuc began as a star-crossed Scrabble play, met us as a cat in the middle of its life, and died today after a sudden illness. When we were both avidly playing Scrabble, The Lovely One, in a desperate end-of-rack fit, played “VUVUC” on the board and said if […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
An unusual vacation schedule
I only expected to do one of these things during my vacation… Morning: have beloved cat put down, because it is suffering acutely and in manifold ways from what was most likely a burst tumor. The cat was pretty much normal-looking on Sunday. Here’s an irony: the cat has been an insulin-dependent diabetic for the […]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
I repeat: this is not just a link-blog
We interrupt our usual intermittent spurts of original content to link to something for you. It’s an interview with “Witesock,” a sports-sock collector. Now that’s super. This guy has a wildly specialized collection of “several hundred” socks. He’s interviewed on the wonderfully obsessive Uni Watch blog. But that’s not the fun part… UW: Now, do […]