Archive for June, 2009
Hey, like most of MN, I just happily acknowledged Al Franken’s win. We have two senators again. There are people who are lamenting the fact that our State Supreme Court did not order Pawlenty to sign the election certification. They don’t have to. He’s legally compelled to sign it anyway. This leaves him two choices: [...]
A few family-related updates: 1. Saw Transformers 2 last night with one of my future brother-in-laws. The verdict: fight scenes good, plot’s awfully thin, and one really really bad continuity error (you don’t go out the back door of the Smithsonian into a desert with mountains in the background and a bunch of parked C-141 [...]
So I’ve not been updating lately. The last month-and-some-change has been pretty tough. First there was Terry ending his own life. Then there was having to euthanize my cat/BFF. Last week, I found out that my sister-in-law has breast cancer and that it’s metastasized. And then last night, mom gets admitted to the ER with [...]
It’s not often that I see a bike tool that makes me salivate, and really I can’t remember the last innovative idea I’ve seen in bike tools. Sure, there’s new items every year from Park and other companies to accommodate the various new foo-foo standards — and these days that’s mostly around the plethora of [...]
Okay, despite the score/level shown, I am really not the Bejeweled shark that this image would make me out to be. And no, this isn’t a Photoshop job. This is being used as evidence of a bug in Pop Cap’s game Bejeweled 2 (for the iPhone). Want to score eleventy bajillion points and get that [...]
R.I.P., MoochJune 2, 1999 – June 6, 2009 In a bit of serendipity, Mooch came home with me on a rainy Saturday afternoon, riding in the passenger seat of a Honda, with Nirvana on the radio. A decade later, she left home for the last time, much the same way. Kate drove and Mooch was [...]
Mooch passed away on Saturday. I’ve written a tribute for this site, which was heart-wrenching to do, and I’m waiting on some photography, but I’ll be posting it here. People are making me fucking crazy with their obtuseness. I’m still moving along with Anathem — holy christ what a dense, interesting, fun book. I hope [...]
As amateur athletes, we often struggle to find the balancing point where hobby and the rest of our lives overlap — and that overlap can be both time and financial. Being an endurance athlete isn’t cheap in hours or dollars, and often we get so caught-up in that we miss the bigger picture. Yesterday my [...]
So I had this awesomely huge to-do list for the weekend, and was all gung-ho about getting through it. Saturday morning, I woke up, attacked it and lasted until about 1pm before I decided that I was done. I did manage to get in a good ride, hit up Target for some necessities, and wash [...]
