http://feralboy.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:09:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While unpacking the last few boxes from my move I came across some notes from my cruise from New York City to Bermuda with the family in the summer of 2001. I don't remember them being particular well-written, and I definitely was trying to put across a David Foster ... http://feralboy.com/2008/01/18/notes-from-a-cruise-ship/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } russian boxes, originally uploaded by feralboy.   http://feralboy.com/2007/12/26/russian-boxes/ So, in the basement of the building there are laundry facilities. Two washing machines next to two dryers. Here is what I wonder. When both loads of wash are done, is it more efficient to: take the wet clothes from each washer and move one step right to ... http://feralboy.com/2007/11/28/efficiency-problem/ (Miss Murder, by AFI)  http://feralboy.com/2007/11/07/currently-on-heavy-rotation-thanks-guitar-hero-iii/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Reason #41 why I already love Jersey City, originally uploaded by feralboy.   http://feralboy.com/2007/10/31/reason-41-why-i-already-love-jersey-city/ The liquor store across the very cute park from me (and one block from the deli that has pork roll sandwiches!) has Hoegaarden 6-packs. You can't do better than that. http://feralboy.com/2007/10/30/reason-37-why-i-already-love-jersey-city/ The 4 day drive across the country very nearly killed me (and I still have a nifty cold this morning), but I made it in last night after a few extra trips between Jersey City and Bridgewater.  The place is all boxes, so now the fun can begin. I have some ... http://feralboy.com/2007/10/29/i-made-it/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Halfway up Mt. Humphreys, originally uploaded by feralboy.   http://feralboy.com/2007/08/07/halfway-up-mt-humphreys/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } eric will rock your face, originally uploaded by feralboy.   http://feralboy.com/2007/07/13/guitar-beer-o/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } me and my dad, originally uploaded by feralboy. http://feralboy.com/2006/12/14/nerd-bookends/ I haven't been staying very on top of my bills lately (my mail pile is a little scary); more just looking at what I had sent the month before to whichever company, and sending them the same or maybe more. Yesterday I actually cracked open my newest electric ... http://feralboy.com/2006/11/29/maybe-ill-leave-all-the-lights-on/ Part 1 Part 2 http://feralboy.com/2006/11/27/thanksgiving-drinking-contest/ Pro: The bar that somehow 7 straights and 1 gay wound up going to on Saturday night had Hoegaarden on draft. ON DRAFT, PEOPLE! Con: I have had this damn Madonna/Abba song playing over and over again, and yet I still can't get it out of my head. Damn ... http://feralboy.com/2006/11/21/pro-and-con-of-gay-clubbing-in-philly/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }<br /> .flickr-yourcomment { }<br /> .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }<br /> .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<br /> Baltimore by night, originally uploaded by feralboy. http://feralboy.com/2006/11/17/baltimore-by-night/ I've done a lot of flying over the last few years, so I consider myself something of a pro at it. I know how to pack my bag such that security never gives it a second glance going through the x-ray machine (leaving home my collection of antique WWII ... http://feralboy.com/2006/11/11/travelling/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } spikey, originally uploaded by feralboy. http://feralboy.com/2006/11/09/spikey/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } alligator bark, originally uploaded by feralboy. .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } tree graffiti, originally uploaded by ... http://feralboy.com/2006/11/02/whered-the-trees-go-i-dont-know/ I just ran down to my local groceria (that's Spanish for grocery store, if you're a gringo), to pay too much for a chai at the newly-opened in-store Star-bucks. For whatever reason this particular Starbucks location is run by what must be absolute morons, as they have on more ... http://feralboy.com/2006/10/27/sacrilege/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } old mining cart, originally uploaded by feralboy. http://feralboy.com/2006/10/23/old-mining-cart/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } rescued, originally uploaded by feralboy. hairy!, originally uploaded by feralboy. from very cute to not so very cute http://feralboy.com/2006/10/20/cute-extremes/ If you see things looking a little different around here, it's because I bit the bullet, changed "hosts":http://dreamhost.com, and moved the blog to "WordPress":http://wordpress.com. The upgrade went pretty smoothly, but I had to leave the 1000+ comments behind for now because exporting them tended to hit a CGI(Common Gateway ... http://feralboy.com/2006/10/20/wordpress/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } macrolicious, originally uploaded by feralboy. http://feralboy.com/2006/10/19/macrolicious/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } juxtaposed, originally uploaded by feralboy. http://feralboy.com/2006/10/19/juxtaposed/ Plan a Small-Bathroom Renovation (tags: DIY howto) http://feralboy.com/2006/09/12/links-for-2006-09-12/ IntelliAdmin.com: Why windows takes so long to start up. (tags: hacks howto software windows tweak) http://feralboy.com/2006/09/09/links-for-2006-09-09/ All those "love letters":http://www.flickr.com/photos/feralboy/134309489/ that my pool kept getting finally paid off. I guess it sprouted opposible thumbs and started calling some numbers, because some guy started coming and dumping chemicals in this week. At 6 this morning, in fact. All he really does is pump in some chlorine ... http://feralboy.com/2006/07/12/junk-mail-works/ Freakonomics Blog » You never know who you will meet online (tags: poker freakonomics) http://feralboy.com/2006/07/12/links-for-2006-07-12/ Got tired of all the comment spam, so I finally bit and did an upgrade to MT 3.2. Upgrade process was fairly painless, except that most of the comments showed up as pending, but didn't show up easily in the admin interface. It seems like I'm getting more comment spam ... http://feralboy.com/2006/05/31/movabletype-upgrade/ After a few fits and starts, including 2 reschedules, "Kristin Hersh":http://throwingmusic.com/ came to town last night to play at the very small and very intimate "Plush":http://www.plushtucson.com/ on 4th Ave. I was lucky in that I happened to be sitting by the door that Kristin and BillyO walked in, and I chatted ... http://feralboy.com/2006/05/26/kristin-hersh-plush/ There is a plumber here at the moment taking care of a persistant leak in one of the faucets in the house. I'm sad to report that, contrary to stereotype, his butt is both small and fully covered. http://feralboy.com/2006/05/01/plumbr/ The number of bike-related posts will probably be drying up here as I've started shifting all my fitlog-style posts to a fantastic site that my friend Joshua has been cooking up called "We Endure":http://weendure.com. At its core it's a community-based endurance training logging application, but it's got all the ... http://feralboy.com/2006/04/06/enduring/ The Seattle Times: Living: Fixed-sated: Coasting is for poseurs. Fixed-gear bikes are about the pedaling Yet another MSM article about the surge in fixies. (tags: cycling fixedgear) Rangers in playoffs for first time in eight seasons - NHL - Yahoo! Sports w00t? State senator's son, 2nd teen admit 'brooming' - Yahoo! News I think this is ... http://feralboy.com/2006/04/06/links-for-2006-04-06/ Dennis Forbes - Pragmatic Software Development The Search For A Domain Name (tags: statistics domains domain internet) http://feralboy.com/2006/04/05/links-for-2006-04-05/ In a month and a half I'm going with Jobie to do the "Whiskey Off-Road":http://www.epicrides.com/wor/wor.htm ride, which is an endurance ride starting up in Prescott, which is about 200 miles north of here, past Phoenix. I think it's out of the valley and up at high enough of an ... http://feralboy.com/2006/03/29/training-starts-today/ Ryan has blogged "our LA weekend getaway":http://providencelife.blogspot.com/2006/03/totally-us-weekly.html, and it's pretty much spot on. Except for the part when I totally had sex with Nicole Richie _and_ Paris Hilton in the bathroom of the Starbucks on Hollywood Blvd. I know you heard all the stories about them "hating each ... http://feralboy.com/2006/03/29/la-weekend/ Variety.com - Hurwitz takes a hike "Of course, if there was enough money in it, I would have happily abandoned the fans' need for quality. But as it turns out, there wasn't," (tags: arresteddevelopment) http://feralboy.com/2006/03/29/links-for-2006-03-29/ Techdirt: Are You Liable If Someone Does Something Illegal On Your WiFi? I suppose this means that I'm leaving my node open for a good reason then. (tags: privacy fuckinglawyers) http://feralboy.com/2006/03/23/links-for-2006-03-23/ The Smiths turned down $5 million reunion offer - Yahoo! News (tags: sxsw smiths morrissey) http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5624861 "Fuck everything, we're doing five blades!" (tags: Technology Shaving theonion) http://feralboy.com/2006/03/21/links-for-2006-03-21/ Saturday morning I met up with Jobie, one of the dealers at the local casino for a bike ride. We went over by Tucson Mountain Park (near the Desert Museum), and he had a mountain bike for me to use, since I didn't own one. Both of his ... http://feralboy.com/2006/03/20/something-new/ Schneier on Security: Basketball Prank (tags: socialengineering humor prank) http://feralboy.com/2006/03/16/links-for-2006-03-16/ Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment - What The Bleep Movie - Google Video (tags: quantum physics) http://feralboy.com/2006/02/28/links-for-2006-02-28/ In preparation for the "delightful dinner":http://www.janos.com/ that I'm having tonight with the folks I skipped the usual there-and-back route for a nice little "loop around the 'hood":http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=37170. 1.58 miles 4.74 mph avg speed 20 minutes http://feralboy.com/2006/02/24/useless-run-stats-for-224/ IMG_6652 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! office bouldering (tags: bouldering climbing) http://feralboy.com/2006/02/23/links-for-2006-02-23/ 1.4 miles 4.2 mph avg speed 20 minutes http://feralboy.com/2006/02/20/useless-run-stats-for-220/ Had a very nice early-ish morning ride with Darcey today, who hasn't been on her bike since December, so we took a very leisurely loop "down to Saguaru East and back":http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=27476. 20.9 miles 29.9 mph max speed 12.8 mph avg speed 1:37 ride time http://feralboy.com/2006/02/18/useless-ride-stats-for-218/ Myspace on The Daily Show - Google Video (tags: myspace video dailyshow) http://feralboy.com/2006/02/18/links-for-2006-02-18/ I had to take a few days off after my first attempt. My quads were wrecked, to the point where i had a hard time crouching until today. After extensive consultation with "my running coaches":http://apadventures.net/ I did the "same loop":http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=20502 today, but slowed it way, WAY down. ... http://feralboy.com/2006/02/16/useless-run-stats-for-216/ Police warning for iPod users - National - theage.com.au (tags: cycling ipod) http://feralboy.com/2006/02/16/links-for-2006-02-16/ Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development mystery memory leak explained (tags: firefox) http://feralboy.com/2006/02/15/links-for-2006-02-15/ Yes, you read that right. I'm going to start running, because I think I'll get a lot more done in a shorter period of time than biking. Today was a good example. I probably didn't burn nearly as many calories as if I had gone up Mt. ... http://feralboy.com/2006/02/13/useless-run-stats-for-213/