Author: splicer

It’s with regret that I am announc­ing that because of a com­bi­na­tion of fac­tors that I will not be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Escape from Alca­traz Triathlon this year.

Thanks to every­one that I coerced into sup­port­ing me for this event. I hope that you’ll be will­ing to help me get into the event in 2006.

Since I was not select­ed in the lot­tery, I would have had to gath­er vol­un­teers. Many of the peo­ple who were will­ing to help need­ed … Read the rest

Say what you want, my new­ly-pop­u­lat­ed ant farm is fascinating.

They’ve only been in there for a cou­ple hours and already they’ve tak­en a siz­able chunk out of one cor­ner of their habi­tat and turned it into small piles.

I knew the iSight and iSight­Light would come in handy some­day. Although I wor­ry that the con­stant light from one direc­tion may be affect­ing the ants’ work habits. Note that it’s the cor­ner near­est the light that’s been chipped away.

Emo­tion—… Read the rest

When I stopped for din­ner tonight and parked my bike in front of the restau­rant where I could keep an eye on it, I went to lock my new hel­met to the bike and found that the lock would not close. While not imme­di­ate­ly vis­i­ble, on clos­er day­light inspec­tion it’s clear that the hel­met lock was pried open. It’s bent and tool-marked. So, that means that did lock the hel­met, and not just space cadet leave it to be taken.

Cold … Read the rest

On my way to go buy a new hel­met this morn­ing, Mur­phy’s law set in. Maybe I was being over­cau­tious because of the com­bi­na­tion of the rain and an untrust­ed spare hel­met, or maybe it was unavoid­able, but as I pulled up to a stop­light, the bike went out from under me and hit the pave­ment on its right side.

I’m com­plete­ly unhurt. My bike seems com­plete­ly undam­aged, with only some bare­ly-vis­i­ble scratch­es on the mir­ror, rear turn sig­nal, and right-hand … Read the rest

Aww…Bruce..
You did­n’t ask to be like this! But you do have to
admit, you have some reaaaal repressed anger
issues. You’re a good guy! Until some­one piss­es
you off! You aren’t real­ly a superhero..You’re
more of a mon­ster who can go either way in
sit­u­a­tions. But all around, you’re the kind of
guy that needs a hug..That..and some prozac

Which super­hero are you? (This is for the boys)
brought to you by Quizil­la… Read the rest

It’ll be a lit­tle longer before I start tak­ing girls for rides on the motorcycle:

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/recallresults.cfm?start=1&SearchType=QuickSearch&rcl_ID=05V067000&summary=true&PrintVersion=NO

Looks like I have to get the deal­er to replace the mount­ing hard­ware for the bitch seat. Inter­est­ing coin­ci­dence: the recall date is the date I bought the bike. The recall notice arrived in the mail yes­ter­day, and I had a friend sched­uled to ride with me today. I want­ed an expe­ri­enced rid­er to ride as my pas­sen­ger … Read the rest

This week­end it’s my turn to do the house­hold clean­ing. I think I essen­tial­ly chased out the rest of the house­mates with the vac­u­um clean­er, but it’s prob­a­bly their gain since it’s beau­ti­ful and sun­ny out­side. I’ve got a lot of the deck doors open and I even let Ozzy go out in the sun, though I kept a close eye on him out there on the deck.

I was mop­ping the floor of the sec­ond lev­el with my head­phones on … Read the rest