My SGH-T629 just died. The reversed screen quickly turned into a reversed screen that fades to white and renders the phone unusable. You may recall that this is a replacement for my last Samsung slider, which died in a far less amusing way. The first phone lasted about a year...
Our voter's pamphlet arrived a few days ago. Which of these two is more out to lunch? I have to admit that Mr. Goodbarspace has a bit of charming novelty about him. Less so for the guy running on the let's-buy-a-silver-mine platform....
...is riding your bike to the AAA office....
It's 99 degrees outside right now. My thermometer recorded a maximum of 100 sometime earlier today. I woke up this morning at 7am and it was still 81 degrees inside my house as the heat had not come down from the night before. This sucks. Clearly, we don't have aircon....
Geezbeasties! What's happened to my screen? It's ... backwards! Here's another shot if you believe this is a 'shop (I have seen quite a few 'shops in my day). I have no idea how this happened. But, restarting the phone fixed it. Incredible!...
I rode the Sammamish River Trail again this morning. This time, I took the 520 trail down the hill, and I also went all the way up to Wilmot Gateway Park (pictured). The 520 trail is a longer ride than 51st but it doesn't tend to kill you on the...
I'm getting Invalid AKMP management association responses from one of my access points. I have no idea why this has started happening (I haven't touched the firmware or anything lately), but none of my machines can connect to this AP reliably anymore. This is on my D-Link WBR-1310. I'm not...
Pictured are three of the four raccoons that came to hang out on the back deck and bother the cats at 8am this morning. Perhaps it was, indeed, a good time for that....
I think the best way to prepare for the imminent swine flu outbreak is to develop an immunity. I'm developing mine by inundating my body with all things swine. Particularly bacon....
I've got over a year's worth of daily (and consistent) weight data, and nearly a year's worth of detailed distance and calorie exercise data. So, I crunched it. Here' the scatter chart of my weight delta plotted against calories consumed in exercise, both calculated as averages across 7-day sliding windows....
Apparently it's China week at The Onion. Even if you've grown bored of its deadpan delivery of mundane items, a hint of red is good enough to spice things up again....
We have bamboo in our back yard (the good kind—the clumping variety that doesn't spread everywhere). It turns out that keeping it growing to a reasonable height is, somewhat counterintuitively, not accomplished by trimming at the top. Instead, it's apparently better to thin from the inside and trim any shoots...
I biked the Sammamish River Trail up to the Redhook brewery earlier today. Alas, no beer when I got there—but maybe in the future I'll schedule in a longer stop. The entire ride was around 20 miles round-trip and I managed an average of 4:15 min/mile pace (~14mph) overall, with...
I had an event at work for the last few days, and on Thursday evening we went out to Tillicum Village out on Blake Island. Tickets to the village include the ferry ride, some clam appetizers, fixed menu salmon dinner, and a show about the native inhabitants. The clams and...
I've put about 396 miles on my bike so far and expect to crack through the 400 mark by tomorrow. Not bad for four months—I was genuinely expecting less. Telemetry is great stuff. That is all....
Ever stuck in an unfamiliar office building early in the morning looking for a coffee machine? Unlike conference rooms and lobbies, they're sometimes not marked. Well, the trick is to find the restrooms—which usually are marked—and then walk around the hallway to find whichever room attaches to the back of...
You may recognize the name Avishai Cohen if you read here regularly—one of those Avishais is a jazz bassist with a number of great albums. I put together a post on him after hearing some clips from his 2006 release, Continuo. I liked Continuo specifically because it was a swaying...
We're surrounded by technological advancements. Most of the obvious ones aren't particularly notable (since they're so obvious), and the rest fall somewhere between clever and incomprehensible. Either way, they all seem at face value to be steps in the right direction. Every once in a while, some breakthrough occurs because...
Bonus points for creativity. Any mention of Stonehenge or Big Ben is worth negative. Remember Scotland and Wales are part of GB, too....
I spent some time enjoying the weather on my bike today and ran across this burned-out shipping container (filled with steel racks and some manner of gear) in the parking lot of a local insurance company. For some reason this doesn't feel recent. I recall seeing a fire in this...
I do not know why I have it in my lawn. I mow my lawn at an angle like this. Maybe it has to do with that....
I've done a few things to the bike since I got it. Just so you remember, here it is: And here's how it is now. So...I've removed the water bottle holder, added a rack over the rear tire, and added a pack under the seat. And painted the deck....
Dethatching and aerating the lawn earlier this year may have had an effect, but seasonal progress over the last two years hints that my front lawn gets way too much sun to survive the summer without water, dethatching/aerating or not. We haven't had non-insignificant rain for weeks, and haven't had...
Perhaps for my vacation I shall visit ... well, you should be able to figure it out from the title....
I just got done watching The Corner, an Emmy-winning miniseries created immediately before The Wire, by the same creator and crew. Same setting as The Wire, and in approximately the same style. The story is different, and although many actors are in both shows, they play completely different parts—notably Clarke...
Actually, I recall those patties were actually made of tofu. Apart from that, the title says it all....
Chinese fireworks, sold on Indian reservations, and lit off with disregard of local ordinances. American history in cardboard and paper....
I've got a Schefflera in my office. It's thriving really well in the low light and humidity. The thing is that it leaks tiny drops of a sticky residue everywhere. It's gotten all over my windows, a bit on my desk, and on the back of my bike (which I...
Wow. Just, wow. Courtesy copyranter via Consumerist....
I got a physical today. My blood pressure was 96/66. Apparently I'm pretty relaxed....
