Pirate Postings on Pop Culture and Scurvy

Random sputterings on travel, midgets, too much salt water, and of course scurvy. Yarr.

Spiele: Accordion Hero

This one's for Brent. From the Makers of "Grand Theft Ottoman"!! Accordion Hero II

A Cluster of Fat Gay Bears

I'm not quite sure what to make of this result that came up in my search for "sun cluster sczbt private address". Seriously, what do Japanese scat fetishists have to do with clustering?

Random crap roundup

It's been a few months since I've updated this thing so here goes: I've been doing a lot of mountain biking recently. Most of my riding has been at Mission Trails Regional Park - it's close by and my friend Jere lives nearby. I've been doing Thursday evening rides with him ...

Semi-anual update

It's been a busy summer. Highlights: 115 mile bike ride from downtown L.A. to Solana Beach for fun with some folks from SIO Bought a 1997 Audi A4 1.8t Quattro as a project car, and then discovered that it's far more fun to drive than the Tacoma. Went on a two week road trip ...

May is Wedding Month

March was baby month (two co-workers with new babies, and I found out that Ryan and Amy are expecting a child this fall), April was legal month, now this month is wedding month. First up: Zoe and Kailen. Kailen's a former roommate and a good college buddy of mine. Now, Zoe ...

Law by Telephone

April ended up being legal month for me, all of it by phone. I got subpoenaed by the Oxnard Driver Safety office of the DMV for a license revocation hearing for the girl that rear-ended me in Santa Barbara back in March, and also ended up getting tapped for jury ...

Pics from ROADNet

As part of my job, I help maintain the data acquistion systems for the ROADNet project at SIO. One of the larger components of ROADNet is our Real-Time image bank, which serves as a repository for images collected from cameras and frame grabbers at a variety of locations. These include ...

My New Treo 650

During my recent trip to Rosarito, Mexico over New Years, I managed to lose my old Sony-Ericson T637. It just sorta jumped out of my hand in a nightclub and skittered across the dancefloor at whatever club we were at, never to be seen again. I liked that phone pretty well ...

New roommates, forklift training, and stupid vendors

It's been a busy couple of months. The house didn't sell due to the slackening San Diego housing market, so we have taken it off the market and I have two new roommates. One of them is my successor at the Shipboard Computer Group, and the other is a Russian ...

Camera Phone Pics

There's been too much yapping and not enough pretty pictures recently, mostly because I haven't taken very many. Pictures from my camera phone dating back to mid August.. etc/phone-200509/Escalade.jpg The Escalade on Dubz I got from my sister for my birthday. etc/phone-200509/Lost+Time.jpg GradualGraduate students work so hard. etc/phone-200509/Ultra+Computing.jpg Forgot to make an IP address change, so ...

July 16th 2008
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I’m now a poster child for the “one less car” movement.

Sadly, it's not intentional. I went to Palm Springs with my roommates to go climb Mt. San Jacinto, and we got lost. While being tourists and pulling a stupid U-turn, I got hit. 3877338748 The silver lining to this all is that the total value of the vehicle per the insurance company's ...
August 17th 2007
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Yes, all Shimano road and mountain bike component groups are fully compatible with their line of high-end fishing components. And while that may not mean anything to you, it means the world to the many competitors and fans of the cycling/fishing/sulking triathlons that are so popular in the fjords of Norway.

Bike Snob NYC weighs in on why Shimano bike components are better than Campagnolo.
August 1st 2007
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Finally got a timing belt done

Had fun changing my timing belt on the Audi this weekend. It's amazingly easy to do once you get the front of the car removed. The front bumper, radiator, A/C condenser, and the radiator support just swing out of the way, and you have easy access to the front of ...
July 12th 2007
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Spiele: Accordion Hero

This one's for Brent. From the Makers of "Grand Theft Ottoman"!! Accordion Hero II
July 12th 2007
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Cyclists: The Two-Wheeled Menace

Is it fair that cyclists should be allowed on the road? Cyclists argue that their vehicles are “energy efficient” and that we should all abandon our trucks and start cycling. This hilarious wingnut proposal sounds like something from an Al Gore eco-terror movie. Why should we Americans sacrifice our way ...

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