I have now been commuting by bike 95% of days for the just under a year now and I love it: I’m saving my company the cost of the $120 parking space each month (there is a $20 tax-deductible bicycle commuter reimbursement through the gov’t that I wouldn’t mind getting, but requesting someone look in to it went nowhere). I’m burning an extra ~500…
A new iPod Shuffle was released today. The hype? No buttons! Except… there are… on the headphone cord. Users who hate Apple earbuds and opt for something else? I guess we’re all lost customers. Old = Better. Stupid, stupid move. This will not sell well and we’ll see something similar to the previous generation come out next… Similar to when they went with the…
[Retitled because my sister doesn’t like the word “gooey” unless it has to do with baked goods. She removed the word “fetus” from her most recent post for me, making this a fair deal.] I bought a nifty body-fat scale a few years ago, but never seem to use that function… The last time I actually logged it was January 2nd, 2007. At the…
I’ve been 100% against the whole idea of sharing EVEN MORE of my life with the world via Twitter for a while now. I’ve got this blog for the big items and I’ve got Facebook for the quick updates. Unfortunately, being an uber-geek means resistance to something like this is futile. Similarly, I swore off switching to Facebook for a long time. Remember when…
Another weekend, another race. As Ms. Caitlin was away, I woke up at 8:15 for this 10am race, grabbed a bite to eat, dressed up, forgot my watch, and was off. Temperature was right around freezing with very light precipitation. Unfortunately, the race was on a dirt trail that is on the perimeter of the lake so there was quite a bit of mud…
So a friend recently posted this on a message board I frequent. Since childhood, I’ve had some odd ability to do simple [operator] math in my head very quickly. The following test is exactly that: He claims they are giving this to potential office administrators and having a 50% fail rate (and, in fact, he fooled me at first). Ignore all that and take…