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 […]