Archive for January, 2006

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Useless Ride Stats for 1/18

As as sign of how spoiled I am in Tucson I almost didn’t go riding today because it wasn’t completely cloudless. Yes, I’m serious. Went more on the flats; down to U of A and back. Fun ride.
20.05 miles
25.4 mph max speed
14.9 mph avg speed
1:20 ride time

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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

links for 2006-01-18

The Morning News – The Omarosa Experiment, by Keith Hollihan
(tags: realitytv psychology)

ComputerZen.com – Scott Hanselman – Scott Hanselman’s 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List
(tags: tools software utilities asp.net freeware)

The Software Chronicles: How The NSA Really Finds You
(tags: government privacy nsa software)

ted: torrent episode downloader
one step closer to automated computer-based tivo
(tags: bittorrent tools video)

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Useless Ride Stats for 1/17

No riding the last few days because I was in San Diego with my mom. My occasional riding partner Darcey had texted me to find out if I wanted to ride Sunday a.m., and I was pretty bummed that I wasn’t able to. Today the weather cooperated and I took a break from [...]

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Useless Ride Stats for 1/11

(With a nod to fixedgear for the formatting)
Finally ordered a cyclocomputer for the fixie to start keeping track of my riding so I could measure progress. Went out just as the sun was getting low, went down Old Spanish Trail past my usual turn-around point of Saguaro East, and made it almost all the [...]

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

links for 2006-01-11

Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse
(tags: flickr goatse humor)

The Space Review: Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident
(tags: area51 nasa)

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Saturday, January 7th, 2006

links for 2006-01-07

HD TiVo Series 3 @ CES | PVRblog
Hot hot hot. I never got a Series 2, but I might just have to get one of these.
(tags: tivo hdtv)

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Friday, January 6th, 2006

links for 2006-01-06

Back to the “Futurama”? – Yahoo! News
(tags: futurama animation)

Programmable Logic DesignLine | An introduction to different rounding algorithms
(tags: programming algorithms rounding)

GROKLAW
(tags: copyright humor fuckinglawyers drm)

retrievr – search by sketch
(tags: ajax application hacks flickr)

FARK.com: (1837095) Pick the best photoshop image of 2005 used in a previous contest
(tags: photoshop humor fark)

LA Weekly: Features: Zeitlist: Politics: 4 Reasons [...]

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

A Smashing Hypothesis (or, how to make A Good Idea longer)

I had a thought last night. I should write a plug-in for Microsoft Word that kids can use for paper-writing when they have to have some sort of arbitrary length for their submission; like 5 pages or what have you. This plugin would automatically shrink the margins, double-space and increase the font [...]

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Sunday, January 1st, 2006

links for 2006-01-01

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Suck.com, Gone for Good?
(tags: suck)

The Chronicles of Narnia Rap – It won’t save Saturday Night Live, but it could save hip hop. By Josh Levin
(tags: snl humor)

IFILM – Viral Video: Best of 2005
(tags: video funny viral 2005 ifilm)

The Winning Ticket – Google Video
(tags: tivo lottery video humor pranks)

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