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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
DLIII
I think at one point I commemorated post number 100 or something on this blog. But given that both anniversaries and the odometric rollovers of our base-10 number system are a bit arbitrary, today we are commemorating post 553. I’m just glad for a little sun, some good days to ride, slowly returning fitness, and […]
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Watch this space
Ever wanted a peek behind the scenes at Wired Cola LLC, where all the magic happens? I didn’t think so. However, you may accidentally get one fairly soon. I may soon make some changes to this site which will be fun for me, and hopefully fun for all 28 of you. If you’ve ever heard […]
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The Feel-Bad Movies of the Year
I somehow managed to see Pan’s Labyrinth in theatres, followed a few weeks later by the DVD of Borat. Borat you surely know about. I found it a mostly uncomfortable experience. First, I found the movie funniest when it was most contrived and least based on ambushing the unwitting. The scenes with the bear? My […]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Ridiculous tech bleg: EDL or playback scripting for DVDs?
No, seriously. I’m looking for a DVD player (presumably software, but hardware is interesting too) that can take a commercial DVD and a list of time/cut/scene cues for that DVD, and playback your customized cut of that DVD. Yes, this would exactly be an open version of the ClearPlay concept. Video editing types will recognize […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Stupid Cough
So here I am, after half a week off work for a stupid cough-cold annoyance. No bike racing this weekend, because of a stupid cough-cold thing. No computer, because I am making a desperate last-ditch effort to revive its screen. and I’m falling behind on virtually everything. Enough. Don’t read this grumpy post. Go back […]
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
I’ll buy anything
That’s the only explanation:But it’s cute!
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Feeling awesome
New goal: be more productive. You know what I did this morning? A bike race. That felt so good. Never mind that I started out by crashing my bike before I even left my house (this sets a new record) by doing a clumsy brake test. Note to self: the brakes on your non-race-bikes, relatively […]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Self-experimentation
This is an old paper. By the copyright, it’s approaching a decade in print. It has been widely referenced. The pretty, as-published 3MB PDF, which includes some revisions and extra graphs. And it may be the most important thing, at least in terms of personal transformation, that you ever read. It doesn’t tell you what […]
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
DRM Tipping Points
Item: a guy who manages content for a living writes something like this. And he pretty much has to, since to say otherwise and be even half as techno-savvy as he is (and that poor slob doesn’t even have an N93) would be to be regarded as having been bought, or retarded, or both. Things […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Everything broke
Here is a brief list of things that have broken in the last seven days or so: the car’s water pump my laptop’s hinge my laptop’s screen the robot vacuum my lip (4 stitches!) the shower cleaner (long story) the dishwasher my will to repair things Worst of all, every one of those items (except […]