Pirate Postings on Pop Culture and Scurvy

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

New Blog Format

I decided to migrate my site from MovableType to WordPress, due to lingering problems I was having with installation and maintenance of MovableType. Wordpress seems to work much better, in terms of editing posts, configuring plug-ins, and embedding Gallery. Plus it's open source, which MovableType no longer is. I'm in the ...

Hardware going batty

The web server was offline for a couple of days, frustrating me to no end as I lost a couple of emails out of the deal. It was starting to act a little funny, so I attempted to reboot it via SSH, and it never came back up. As I'm ...

Updates to the photo gallery

I've added a couple of new galleries to my photo collection and updated a few others. Now featuring more captions and less blurry shots (party pics excluded). Some highlights: R/V Roger Revelle was working in a similar area to where we are in right now on Melville, but they went a wee ...

Blog Spammers and Random Pictures

Couple of changes to the site - most outwardly visible is the random picture on the right hand side of the page. Read on below for some technical details, or don't bother if you're not the technical type.

Server updates, downtime, crappy update intervals

Wow, I've not updated this crap in forever, and seem to have lost some data in the last server update as well. Here's a brief rundown of life for the past year... Came back from South Africa in February. 1994 Moved from PB into a house in University City, where I have a ...

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
Tags: Funny, Bikes, Quoted No Comments

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
Tags: Miscellanea, Funny No Comments

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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