Sunday, November 22, 2009: Rolling Hills 1, 90 minutes, 22.5 miles, 570 calories, 74 watts Monday, November 23, 2009 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Thursday, November 26, 2009 Friday, November 27, 2009 Saturday, November 28, 2009 All of this is done on my Schwinn 231 Recumbent Exercise Bike.
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] I ran across this article on Gizmodo, Giz Explains: How To Fix the Airlines’ Stupid Portable Gadget Rules. I fly enough that I can hardly remember the time when the FAA… Continue Reading Gadgets on Airplanes
Trader Joe’s had Brussel Sprouts Au Gratin out for sampling. This is just wrong! [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Hurry Up and Wait Have you been on a flight where the flight attendants have announced over and over again about hurrying to get on board, stepping out of the aisle, and get settled? Hurry up, hurry up. I have no problems with flight attendants encouraging folks to be considerate and move along. Admonishing customers… Continue Reading Flight Attendant Peeves
This was really bugging me…here’s how to “set” list view for Mac Disk Images. 1. Open the “root level” view of the disk image – for me, it always opens in icon view. Then, select “Show View Options” from the View menu. 2. Check the “Always Open in Icon View” box. While leaving this dialog… Continue Reading List View for Disk Images
So the folks in Utah got me into board games, in a pretty big way. One of the things I miss about Utah are our game nights. They continue to torment me with announcements via Twitter. As a kid, I played the traditional American board games…Monopoly, Sorry!, Life and so on. But as with many… Continue Reading Board Games
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Awhile back I posted a write up about a new “ancillary fee” at Southwest Airlines and included link to a story about the amount of money airlines were “making” from these… Continue Reading Bag Fees, Losing the Forest to Put a Tree on a Pedestal
Sunday, November 15, 2009 Monday, November 16, 2009 Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Thursday, November 19, 2009 Friday, November 20, 2009: Rolling Hills 1, 60 minutes, 15.0 miles, 373 calories, 75 watts Saturday, November 21, 2009 All of this is done on my Schwinn 231 Recumbent Exercise Bike.
I read this article on O’Reilly’s Radar about whole house energy monitoring. The Energy Detective (TED) is a current measuring device that you connect in your electrical service panel and can be used to monitor energy usage in real time. When I owned my house, I started a high-level tracking of my energy usage (comparing… Continue Reading I’d try TED if I still owned my own house…
In Facebook’s latest round of “improvements” they decided that having all of my friends spam me with the people they become friends with is somehow a good idea. Give me a way of excluding those notifications from my wall, don’t require each and every person I’m friends with to have to individually exclude their own… Continue Reading Facebook Fail