The race was run, 69th out of 120something in the men's group. A bit harder than I had expected, Aaron was surely annoyed with having such a flimsy teammate. But it was fun! Here's a couple photos taken by wandering professionals.
Gas Prices! Man o man, I am laughing at you. Fact: the amount of money spent by the Federal Government on Public Transportation is based on revenues from gas taxes. So drive less = less Public Transit Funds. Make sense in a fucking 12 dimensional world where Uthulu's are our Lords and Masters. Fuck, who though this up? Asshat politicians.
Commute! It's been better lately. They installed HUGE speedbumps by the park to slow traffic down. I think people have figured out that you just can't take this shortcut and save time anymore. Very few speeders anymore, on the worst part of my commute. I have also noticed that people seem to be LOOKING AT/for cyclists a bit more. MY TRACKSTANDS IMPRESS EVERYONE. (on that note, if you come to a stop sign first, please go in order, and don't wave me on, you wouldn't do it to someone in a car, now would you?) And what's up with all these squeaky bikes? Spend 50 bucks and get it tuned up. I love coming up in back of other riders and scaring the shit out of them because my chain doesn't sound like a Greatful Dead soundcheck. Just pull into their draft, blow buy 'em and say 'dude, Pedro's'!
Work! It is swell. Not much money (pop's said I should ask for a raise [he's senile, methinks]). But not much hassle. Some pressure, but I pretty much kick ass at what I do, so no worries here. Taught a client about InDesign today. The basic lesson was don't overthink it, and give me the cover in a seperate file. Still the worst part is getting 72 (or 96) dpi RGB images and then having to explain to people that I can't make dogshit into gold without 300 dpi CMYK tifs or psds). dunbasses.
Enough for now, as no one reads this fucking drivel anyway. Looking for Amtrak destinations for a short vacation (I am not going to my folks place) somewhere near CA. UBI bike mechanic school is very expensive, but I may talk to my employeer about paying for part of it (though my job has nothing to do with bikes or mechanicalbike thingys). I dunno just a thought, as I haven't asked for a raise in over a year.
If you read this please tell me to A) STFU, B) GTHO or C)zzzzzzzzzzz
It's so hard to write this and yet I feel it must be done.
Please note, I do come by every once in awhile, but for the most part I'm not "with you". I've neglected you. I've found someone else and sort of moved on. It happened quicker than I expected.. I'm now focused on someone else and MMA HotStuff has consumed my blogging life.
I've loved you from the start. You have given me an outlet to document the randomness that happens in ones life and a way to reflect. While you have never let me down, I've let us down.
I love how you and my Vox friends have sent me messages wondering what has happened to me, It breaks my heart to give you the "it's not you it's me speech".
I'll continue to check in, but as far as me and my Voxing, it's at an end.
I can deal with the new disk golf course going in at Kincaid, even though it’s ripping new paths through areas that have always been thick with trees. I’ll miss the density of those areas, but I do believe the park should be shared and more constituents using the park means the park will stay protected.
But last night when Katie and I were running, we went on the Mize Loop, which is where the disk golf course is going in. There were probably twenty people using the course; that’s okay — like I said: more constituents means the park won’t go away. I could even ignore the slack-jawed, unfriendly stares of the “golfers” as they rooted around in the underbrush looking for lost disks.
But not the cigarettes. Seriously, there are going to be problems if the disk golfers start leaving cigarette butts and beer cans (common detritus on the other course I see on a regular basis, over by the lagoon). I guess we’ll have to start leaving notes at the chalet every time we find more cigarette butts by the “tees” (do they call them “tees”?). It would be a shame if a few pigs turned one of our best parks into nothing more than a trashy party dump.
Our family business was broken into last night. :(
I had this idea last night...I can let users subscribe to feeds without leaving the mail client.
I added all the feeds as messages in the [feeds] folder, and the subscription is controlled by the status of the message. See the screen shot to the right.
Recent updates:
- The inbox is a collection of all your subscribed feeds
- Read/Unread status is preserved across folders (inbox/feed)
- Browse all available feeds in the [feeds] folder
- Add remove/feeds by setting the unread status on the message
- A Perl SMTP server handles incoming messages and processes commands
- Emails sent are not relayed
- Emails are stored in the db for future review, so suggestions and bug reports can be filed easily
- Commands can be handled, but none are added yet.
I may change the feed subscription model to a two folder system. A subscribed folder and an unsubscribed folder. You would move the message that represents a feed into the subscribed folder to add it to your reading list. This seems more intuitive than the way I implemented it. What do you think?
Hola
The weekend went well, Giants beating the crap out of the Dodgers was the best part. They need to start handing out 'Croix de Candlestick" pins to us that sit there. Zito, ftw!
The air here sucks, but the people in Sacramento are getting screwed. It's like Jakarta x Mexico City there.
Started 'We were soldiers once...and young' last night. the only things i have ever read more depressing is "The Gulag Archipelego" and anything by Emile Zola. Then again I have read the gulag many times. it's not a children's story by any means, but if I ever feel bad, i can pick one of the books up, read a bit and then realize that my problem is nothing compared to these souls.
Playing a new scenario in RT3. Yes I play games, every once in a 3-day weekend.
Pippo says hi (he's chococat!)
It works! Sprocket.Reader is an IMAP mail server that pulls news feeds from a database. I'm focusing on the iPhone mail client at the moment. It's easy to use and there are no downloads or mods required.
If you are interested in being a beta tester, email me at: xantus at xantus d.o.t org.
Here are screen shots of me reading Slashdot
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