Possibly my last ride for 2008

Took my motorcycle out today for one last ride. I think the temperatures were in the upper 30's/lower 40's.
It went really well. At one point I was on one of Knoxville's many roads that run parallel to the rail lines and followed alongside the engine of a coal train for several miles. It was pretty cool, but this experience was marred by two things.

First, my winter gloves aren't winter enough. After about 30 minutes of riding my index finger started getting pretty cold ...

posted: 2008-12-14 03:42:27 1 comments Read More

one wife is nott enough

Actually, one wife is plenty.

My apologies to everyone who came to this entry this morning. I have had a password protected email gateway that I use to post entries via email ever since this was a movable type blog. Unfortunately some spam randomly hit upon the key to the mechanism and ended up going all of the way through the system and ended up as an entry on the site. This really was left over from a time when phones and pagers could send email but did not have ...

posted: 2008-12-01 06:52:35 Read More

What's the best possible bed for a boy?

Ben is growing up pretty quickly, and his bed which was a converted crib, was getting small. After considering things like race car beds from a department store, I decided that a castle would make a better bed because 1) it suits his personality well, and 2) it also makes playing in his room more fun which might be pretty important as winter nears. Since I was taking a belated week off from work, it seemed the perfect time to build it myself.

The first day, I bought a mattress ...

posted: 2008-11-11 20:17:09 3 comments Read More

How certain are you about how good he is?

"For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny!"

posted: 2008-10-16 15:42:15 Read More

Am I too lazy?

My Slicehost machine ran out disk space yesterday, so I was looking for logs to rotate, files to delete, etc and I ran across a few large groups of files that I wanted to keep. I tried gzip -9 like always, but then found myself wondering if I could get these files any smaller. A quick google turned me on to rzip. But as it turns out, rzip is extremely memory intensive and was completely consuming everything I had on this poor slice.

I could go though all of the ...

posted: 2008-10-04 08:10:26 2 comments Read More

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