2008

Aug

Left card reader and spare cable at home. Sigh.

I have been regaled with tales of legendary insignificance…

Tornado and sever thunderstorm warnings. Not good.

“…the John Coltrane of excuses, to finally take his excuse-making into the “sheets...

Live fulltext search in Ruby on Rails

These things I believe. « Not The User’s...

merb - The Pocket Rocket Framework

5 Resources for Getting Up to Speed on Rails...

Riding Rails: This Week in Rails (July 11,...

So is playing an instrument…

It’s a prescription for triggering that ancient perceptual richness that helps us to live more...

Seek novelty and surprise

Slow down, examine things closely, try to appreciate every facet of what’s around you…

a recline of recumbents.

Right next to a leash of greyhounds, An exaltation of larks, and a parliament of owls, I add: a...

http://tinyurl.com/5tztd8

“You should respect everything, but you don’t have to like anything.”

“Nobody’s as cool as they think they are, and no matter what, you look ridiculous to...

Shopify's active_shipping

The abdication of common sense and the increase of widespread ignorance is now pandemic....

http://tinyurl.com/5cgsqf

“Who am I kidding? You got served by a guy in his upper forties on a bicycle. I ring my tiny...

/\ndy: Stage 0: Not Ready For Agile

Coming soon: The Winter Nocturne Ride series… stay tuned to this channel. That is all.

Contraints == better quality http://tinyurl.com/6hko3w

http://tinyurl.com/5lua2m FTW!

Environmental Constraint = Better Quality

My G9 now has capacity for 500 RAW files or 1500 jpegs. Rocks.

Job Manager:jobmanager 1.0.0 Released

Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby:...

Ask Your Doctor About mod_rails

HTTParty: Quick Web Service Consumption From...

git commit -v FTW!

21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your...

Watched man in car practicing flute playing with two hands while driving car down narrow streets. My...

He did sound good though…

Overheard: “Hey lighten up! You’re making happy hour bitterly ironic.”

I can do nothing with more force than most people do anything… when the mood strikes. Maybe....

Some projects are like peering into a hole only to have a frightened ferret scratch violently at...

Weapon of choice (winter division)

I’m very satisfied with being constantly unsatisfied…

Jul

Noah has super nosebleed. His first. I’m on the commute home. Not a good place to be…...

If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve done...

The best thing is: when you forget about technique and the instrument and just play; when you forget...

Walden: “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his...

Bike in the city (cartoons!)

Bike Bags and Reliable Softgoods from Duluth,...

No, that’s OK. I don’t being in several meeting back to back for 9 hours straight. Sure....

Absolutely certain of my indecision.

The weapon of choice, winter division, has been ordered. That is all…

The weapon of choice winter division is almost on the way…

Stop talking about what could or might happen and do the experiment — you never really know.

Don’t force it — use a bigger hammer.

Kandinsky rocks.

Schmoozed some more with Jeff Jones today…

How did I get here?

No matter what it will require at least $1000US, 2 gallons of epoxy, 300 rubber gloves, 2 days of...

I am a badass existential anti-hero. Seriously.

Experience and thoughtfulness

So called experts who put the bike rack on your wife’s car together wrong? FAIL

When folks on a ride don’t pull through, and there’s a headwind (10 miles or so) and...

“Life is a series of choices. Choose to be there. Whatever ‘there’ may mean to...

Wondering how my friends at STP are doin?

GPSies.com - Track creator

Humidity (Indexed rocks!)

From A to Green: How to green your day job

Reading Enterprise Rails Tapping at http://tinyurl.com/6nfkuk

“It’s all good on two wheels.” http://tinyurl.com/5otdrg

Why is it that there is some segment of cycling culture that seems to think this sport is about...

Ethernet cables for incoming consultants has turned into a three person email conversation....

Wufoo · Examples

“…when you’re mountain biking alone, nobody can hear you scream.”...

Secrets of book publishing (and...

“Gradually the criteria for an A are getting higher and higher.”

“Quality control means a grade of either A or F” says Dean Comley

Laurence Gonzales Everyday Survival: How to...

I’m not happy with the way the fork of my Karate Monkey moves when I brake. Installation?...

Is napping allowed during work hours?

Below the fold of cycling.alltop.com? Coolio @sethdill… so many great folks!!

Another fave: http://tinyurl.com/64g62x

Isn’t his scroll work divine?

A bit more subtle design from David Morse… http://www.davidmorseviolins.com/index.php

Monette is near the Portland airport for you west coast folks… Monteleone is in Islip, Long...

http://www.monteleone.net/quattroport1.html

More design: http://www.monteleone.net/GrandArtist2.html

Love design? http://tinyurl.com/68hhnr

How to install Merb, DataMapper, and RSpec |...

$100 for a Tank of Gas? http://tinyurl.com/6kj6vg (My call $6 and change before too long)

Galen Rowell ND-3G-SS FTW!

If you wanna fly @ghoffberg, you should join the spliff ride. @butterflybike can tell you *all*...

“Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.” Daniel Burnham, Chicago...

“Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.”

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not...

http://tinyurl.com/6q5ycg

“…you can fix the problem the CEO caused without anyone ever seeing you do it.”

“If you just build a tool which requires a certain structure of social interaction…

“I often just sit and look out my office window for a long time, thinking. Why does this look...

A man after my own heart…

TDF Google maps street view… http://www.google.com/tourdefrance2008

Park Place – Trac

Welcome Alltop!

http://openmicroblogging.org/ ???

http://opendefinition.org/ ???

Joe Cocker, subtitled. If you never knew what he was singing… you will now:...

My first attempted post on identi.ca yielded: “DB_DataObject Error: Connect failed, turn on...

Nifty POV photography technique: http://tinyurl.com/5dylm4

Details: http://tinyurl.com/5p9p5t

Scalability and concessions

…You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own...

You can do anything you decide to do.

…The fears are paper tigers…

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity…

“You’re going to die many times. Wear the best shirt for the occasion.” -Rapha catalog

Avacado and peach salsa… not to be missed (in moderation)

The Lazy Randonneur: Inuvik Packing List

Jun

Almost the end of the Great Clif Mojo bar...

A University of California neurophysiologist recently connected sarcasm with evolutionary human...

Bear mauls teen during 24-hour bike race in Alaska: http://tinyurl.com/6jsmuj

http://tinyurl.com/63j3tx

“Bravery often pays off, even if paying off is not your goal. Especially if that’s not...

Accidental Complexity is the hobgoblin of Intentional Simplicity

Crummy - Tasty Breadcrumbs Plugin

“When I find defects, I own them. I f’ed up.There’s no shame in that. F’in step...

“And now, the elusive Bufferius Overflowius Maximinus will show its mating...

Shower this morning meant hacking up junk from my throat. At least I’m on the mend.

Working With History in Bash

SmugVault - Store everything for next to...

technoweenie's masochism

The euphoria. And also: the elation.

Also out of request cycle processing: run_later

“Edge Merb” now can do this: r.match(”/this/old/url”).redirect(”/where/this/resides/now”) Nice.

Didn’t I just right about this yesterday? http://tinyurl.com/6ewbxt

Finding A Friendly Cloud

“I mean, I hate those people too, but I hate them in the normal, friendly way that I hate any...

“Bike commuting is the new bike racing” - http://tinyurl.com/4d2p97

I want only to live in accord with the promptings of my true inner-self. Why is that so very...

5 year anniversary gorging is drawing to a close. Clothes will not be due to extreme inflation. A...

Nau next: http://blog.nau.com/2008/06/24/what-nau/

WordPress To Disable Remote Access

With a testing framework… rocks!

sudo gem install sproutcore sproutcore hello_world sc-server

http://pistadex.com/ FTW!

Wintergreen Designs: UNISEX EXPEDITION FLEECE...

“Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing...

BIke bits, bike bits… decisions, decisions…

Sunday’s ride

I hit the quinfecta! That’s right… it’s 2 better than a trifecta & large...

RIP George Carlin

New summize command line query tool. Allez!

Testing just written command line tweet script…

This is a test!

There are no tropical cyclones at this time.

Testing out twitabit… wishing I could switch Twitterrific to point to here… might have...

Sad that every time @zappos tweets, I think “Zappa” and then get depressed about his...

Sending mail from Rails through Google SMTP at http://tinyurl.com/5zg6t2

Why has a company has not shipped a small, prefabricated item for over a month? First SPAM filters,...

Columbia Sponsors Team High Road: http://tinyurl.com/573kw9

Home recovering now thank goodness! All I could think of last night was where’s my bike? Yeah,...

A friend had a heart attack two weeks ago… one stent, a week of recovery then double bypass....