Saturday, Ryan and I set out for a lazy
photo-taking ride. Good pics resulted, someday I’ll get around to sharing them. Some day after I’ve moved off the temporary lifeboat hard drive that doesn’t have enough space to manage photos, that is.
metrics:
distance: 24 mi
average: 12.0 mph
max: 38.2 mph
Sunday, he and I joined Heather for […]
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Cold pancakes
September 29, 2003 – 12:00 am
Eating raw fish
September 29, 2003 – 12:00 am
Being only 3 blocks away (how do you measure distance in suburbia? minutes by SUV?) from Oishi, we sushi-loving geeks often walk over there for lunch. The price is certainly right (under $8 for a maki roll, three nigiri pieces, salad, and miso) and the sushi is very good.
Still, eating lunch at Miso […]
Code audience
September 26, 2003 – 12:00 am
I just ran across a great essay from Bruce Eckel in reaction to a summit he attended: The Ideal
Programmer. He makes several great points, but his first is why I’m noting it here.
Programming is about communication between humans.
This is one of my favorite personal mantras, and one that I chant to others regularly. […]
Suffering
September 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
Time this week has a short interview with Lance Armstrong (who, of course, is on my short list of heroes). In it, he echoes my standard explanation of the allure of endurance sports: “I’m not happy if I’m not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it’s […]
Reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed
September 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
I usually refrain from copying viral blogsphere memes, but it took me a while to hunt down anything meaningful about this
one so I’m noting it here. The supposedly self-evident truth is that word recognition is not based on shape or sequence as usually assumed, but rather mere letter content and the first and last […]
Aweful majesty
September 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
Mount St. Helens is a must see. Sitting atop Johnston Ridge where you can gaze into the crater and read the scars of the landscape provides one of those rare encounters with the fragility of life.
Trivia bits that were difficult or impossible to pick out of the usual tourist presentations:
? The small craters in […]
Reentry
September 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
I’ve finally caught up on the usual post-absence work spam. Back to our regularly scheduled stream of consciousness
Big-footed philosophy
September 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
The Yeti is considering a site redesign, but contrary to his self-effacing blogger cliche reference, this is a reflection of how the content has shifted in focus. He makes this point himself by wandering off into a tirade about weak rhetoric and discernment:
“There is a root to every argument - a need for self-expression […]
More Seattle
September 18, 2003 – 12:00 am
A few thoughts to journal before picking up Kristan from Sea-Tac.
More walking (until feet hurt) today. Visited the Fremont troll, the locks and botanical garden, and more of downtown. The Seattle rain has returned, but it’s that kind of drizzle that’s not worth an umbrella, hat, or windshield wipers. I find it […]
Emerald impressions
September 15, 2003 – 12:00 am
Seattle is more like the stereotype than I expected.
This has to be a good place to drive once you know your way around. Lights rarely hold you up for long, thanks to short cycles and intelligent sensors. Intersections are not cluttered needlessly with stops, and other drivers are generally polite and also interested […]
