I often refer to the period of time after college graduation as my summer vacation that lasted 3 years. I wandered. I had odd jobs. Everyone should be so lucky.
I worked for a moving company here in Philadelphia intermittently from 1996-1997. The warehouse had a 40 ft rock climbing wall, a mini ramp, a trampoline, [...]
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Vlad and the True Nature of Furniture
18-Jun-08You can haz PBR.
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You can haz PBR., originally uploaded by chris_mckenna.
Graham and I went to a gathering at Penn Treaty Park. They were filming Transformers 2 at the old power station. Bumble bee was there. [...]
Some of you come to me since I compared Tom Boonen to Dr. Rockzo and have been all:
“Dude, harsh! TB just got dis invited from the Tour.”
I want to address that now. But first a long digression:
One of the great ideas my dad ever had was making my brothers and I work through [...]
From a speech he gave in Portland:
“If we are going to solve our energy problems we’ve got to think long term. It’s time for us to be serious about investing in alternative energy. It’s time for us to get serious about raising fuel efficiency standards on cars. It’s time that the entire country learn from [...]
Focusing at the Giro
14-May-08
David Millar’s bad luck and subsequent response at the Giro today reminded of the old skateboarding phenomenon of focusingskateboard decks(ie snapping them out of frustration with an elusive trick).
I’m only surprised he didn’t crush his frame like an empty beer can instead of merely tossing it over a guard rail. He’s english though. Those people know restraint.
Correction: [...]
One of those Commutes(By Car)
09-May-08Traffic on I-476 was moving, but slowly this morning. Maybe 45-55 MPH, instead of the customary 65-70mph. This was probably for the best. It was still raining. There was mist and spray everywhere.
The 18 wheeler in the middle lane was like a 20 ton fog machine. For a time, It looked like no one wanted [...]
Forget where I found this today. Order. Physics. good.
OxCam Race.
30-Mar-08Say what you will about the British, but damn, they can throw a boat race. Look at the size of that flotilla following those 8s.
teh awesom. in no particular order.
07-Jan-08The Decapitator via 1026
I want to get my wife one of these (a c2 taser), in spite of the high probability that I would be the one it was used on.
Most things I’ve been reading about at CES, especially displays that are less then 2 inches thick.
The Verlaines. But you knew that already…right?
Our venture in Iraq was a literary failure, by which I mean a failure of imagination. A culture better at imagining richly, three dimensionally, would have had a greater respect for war than we did, more awareness of the law of unintended consequences, more familiarity with the world’s tendency to throw aggressive energy back [...]