Archive for August, 2008
Photo from some e-commerce website, so it’s probably just a promo photo from the manufacturer. So I’m making my first stab at building up a Wintel hardware box in over a decade, and wow. Interesting experience. The featureless black box above is the case I’m using, and I already have it and the power supply [...]
Screencap from Yahoo!, by the author. Click for larger images and more detail. In the technology world, there’s this talk of ubiquitous computing — having supercomputer processing at your fingertips, wherever you are, and paired with access to the world’s knowledge. If the systems continue to pair data like above, I think that the usefulness [...]
The two greatest technologies are wireless Internet and indoor plumbing. And despite the 100+ years separating their respective inceptions, they’re really quite compatible. Not that I’d know or anything. I’m just sayin’.
Last night, at poker, it was determined that there should be a new hand: the “prime straight.” This would be A-2-3-5-7 or 2-3-5-7-A (whomever was smart enough to claim the ace as an 11 would win the apparent tie). There would also be the “prime straight flush”, of course. We also discussed the A11 Offense, [...]
The author’s P2C, with non-stock Zipp 404 wheels and XLab SonicWing. Based on two experiences surrounding this bike, I decided to purchase one via Cervélo’s shop employee-purchase program. The first experience was getting eyeballs and hands on the Dura-Ace equipped model in our shop. The second was the thorough review written by the crew at [...]
So this morning on the way to work, I saw a Minnesota license plate that read, “NATV TXN”. And I couldn’t figure it out. I puzzled over it for a few minutes and came to the conclusion that it was: NA = Not Applicable TV = Television TXN = Transmission It hit me when I [...]
