Author: splicer

One of the last sin­gle-screen the­atres in the Bay Area has closed.

http://www.renaissancerialto.com/current/PARK.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/19/BAG8REPTJ21.DTL&type=movies

One of the things I real­ly love to do is vis­it the small­er and sin­gle-screen the­atres in the area. It gives me a lot of plea­sure and there’s always some­thing about the the­atres – some have extrav­a­gant dec­o­ra­tions, some have ded­i­cat­ed and knowl­edgable staff, some sim­ply have small-town charm and not much else to offer. But … Read the rest

.…is clean­ing up so that the maid won’t have a messy place to clean.

Of course, I guess I just don’t like clean­ing to begin with.… Read the rest

It’s actu­al­ly cheap­er to have a motor­cy­cle flown to Europe and back than it is to rent a motor­cy­cle in Europe for three weeks. For two weeks it’s about even.

Not that it’s rel­e­vant to the fan­tasies of any­one I know. Just saying. =^)… Read the rest

Well, first they took almost three weeks to resole my steel­toed fire boots. I was promised they’d be back in just over a week. Appar­ent­ly they got backed up. I got a phone call today telling me that the boots had come back with new soles, but that they’d put the wrong soles. Instead of the soles I’d request­ed, they’d put on a sim­i­lar but thick­er and heav­ier lugged sole. That’s two strikes.

The upshot of this is that I … Read the rest

My back has been killing me this past week­end and con­tin­ues to hurt today. So my man­ag­er sug­gest­ed that I go take some time on the mas­sage chair. Turns out we have a small room with one of these:

http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productview.jhtml?sku=HW551BLK

Now, I’ll admit that I was skep­ti­cal. And I’ll admit also that a robot­ic mas­sage is no sub­sti­tute for a human mas­sage. How­ev­er, it was damn nice to spend 20 min­utes reclin­ing while this thing worked out the kinks … Read the rest

http://www.boobs4bourbonst.com/… Read the rest

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/dip?m=/n/pictures/2005/09/08/airbag3.jpg&f=/g/archive/2005/09/08/dip.DTL… Read the rest

Sec­ond by sec­ond, the Qeng Ho count­ed from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth­’s moon. But if you looked at it still more close­ly… the start­ing instant was actu­al­ly some hun­dred mil­lion sec­onds lat­er, the 0‑second of one of Humankind’s first com­put­er oper­at­ing systems.
[A Deep­ness in the Sky]

Damn that’s cool.… Read the rest

Which OS are You?… Read the rest

My first set of met­ric wrench­es is, by coin­ci­dence, the last set of met­ric wrench­es in the city of Palo Alto.… Read the rest