Archive for July, 2005

May have injured my left elbow

So I’ve been nursing a strain of some sort in my left elbow the last couple weeks. I think it’s an RSI “event”, I’ve been doing an awful lot of typing lately. Because my new role requires communicating with a whole lot more people than before, an order of magnitude more. So […]

A bicycle with an internal transmission

Wow, now this is a cool bicycle–they’ve found a way to eliminate the rear derailleur and replace it with an internal transmission. The bike is from GT but the new transmission is of course from Shimano, which seems to own the bike gear market.
This is awesome, no more rear chain slipping off when you […]

Free shipping boxes from the USPS

Did you know the US Postal Service will deliver free shipping boxes to your door? I did not, until yesterday.
See I’m trying to unclutter my life, so I’m selling off gadgets and crap that I’ve accumulated. Basically my goal is to sell off, or otherwise dispose of, anything which I haven’t used in […]

I know where I’ll be November 1

I know where I’ll be on November 1–at Circuit City (or possibly Best Buy) to pick up The Revenge of the Sith on DVD. The only good Star Wars film of the prequel trilogy.

TV Guide getting bigger and smaller

The venerable TV Guide will launch a major format change this October, becoming a large-format mag. I assume that means something like Newsweek-sized instead of the small digest it has been. But while the mag gets bigger, staff gets smaller as they will be doing a lot of streamlining–fewer TV lisings, and […]

A community vocabulary that I don’t share

In most any social or professional community is that there’s often a series of shorthand or specialized vocabulary words that all the members know but which outsiders might find mysterious. Like how people in the Web world talk about “HTML” which is hypertext markup language, the commands that format all Web pages including this […]

My tag cloud

Hey, I just set up a tag cloud from some of the blogs I read. I’ll try to add to the list of RSS feeds, maybe even build a couple different tag clouds, to see how it works. Very fun little technology, I’m not certain how useful it is yet. But hey, […]

Organizational Culture Inventory

I just filled out an Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI), which is kinda like the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) only not as comprehensive.
I had to take the MMPI back when I was applying for a co-op job at the NSA. It’s not specific to NSA–they give this test to everybody who applies for a security […]

New LCD, new organization

So two things happened at work yesterday–IT replaced my old failing HP CRT with a huge Sony LCD, and the division in which I work got a big re-org. I still haven’t figured out which is gonna have the bigger impact on my work day.
The LCD is definitely an improvement over the CRT–colors and […]

Thieves love the Acura Integra

At one time I actually wanted to buy an Acura Integra. About five years ago, my credit union had a used-car sale and there was a nice black Integra one the list. But they also had an Infiniti G20 and I’d always wondered what it was like to own an Infiniti. The […]