Geek Habitat

Greeeat. Our air conditioner at the house died today. We knew it was coming, but not this soon. Bye bye cash savings/reserves, hello emergency withdrawal from funding sources we really, really hate dipping into.

To top it all off, we have to have our windows open tonight since the A/C system is dead. And guess who’s smoking pot at 11 PM? Our pothead neighbors. I don’t care what people do inside their own homes, within reason, but I am SO SICK of smelling pot smoke in my yard/garage/home.

Clearly, someone doesn’t want a road for vehicle traffic here; just close the damned thing, and be done with it! http://tinyurl.com/36coke

Reposted from my geekgal.vox.com blog

Clearly, CNN is employing a former TheOnion wonk because lately their top headlines have read more like TheOnion stuff than Corporate News Network (er, well, yeah). It was funny, at first, like the “Being Declared Dead Ruins Life” one I blogged last week…but now I feel dirty, like I’m being used. Why?

What in the hell is this headline doing on CNN’s top news stories? The story itself is notable, I’m not discounting that, but who uses the word “teeny” except a child or a love-struck parent of a newborn?

It’s bad enough to read what some parents and child care providers are doing, but to hear a “veteran teacher” talking this way to 4 and 5 year olds? Sigh.

And while a little different, in that the teens involved did bear a small bit of responsibility (skateboarding where they shouldn’t have been), this 17-year-veteran of the Baltimore PD also needs a refresher course on proper conduct.

Reposted from my vox blog (I gotta figure out which I prefer, this is getting redundant redundant.)

So I was jazzed to upload my “Indoor Bike Trainer (Day #1)” Garmin Forerunner 305 data, which obviously for an indoor stationary bike ride just amounts to TIME and HEART RATE (via the 305’s heartrate monitor), at least until my CADENCE sensor arrives (thereby delivering SPEED and DISTANCE data.)

In plain English, here’s what I did today on the indoor bike trainer:
10 min, sustained
(5 minute break to eat and hydrate–had NO energy)
15 min, sustained

Stolen from buzban, a fellow voxer (my vox page):

So sad, but so true –

“For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008.” Watch the video

Turn your speakers low or put your headphones on if you’re at work and can’t have some minor adult language uttered without embarrassment or issues.

You’ll want to watch the video twice. Once, to enjoy the primary message. Secondarily, to read the ticker text running on the screen during the video. For example:
“Optimisitic Washington, D.C. think tank brainstorming ways terrorists might surrender.”