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The Rules

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2009-04-15 wt8p 3 comments

Saturday morning, I helped with the Seattle Randonneurs “Adopt a Road” litter pickup. Combined, we picked up sixteen moderate-sized bags along a stretch of East Lake Sammamish Parkway from LouisThompson Road to 28th ST NE. In the two bags I filled, the most frequently found item was cigarette butts. Styrofoam peanuts were the most obnoxious because they break when the […]

Zdravo

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2009-01-27 wt8p

In the chart below, the red line represents the time-history of my participation in Postcrossing for the past two years. The red line shows postcards sent, the blue line is the number received. Any guesses where I lost interest because the five-card limit on cards in-circulation was a problem? Bueller? They’ve since increased the limit of outbound cards based on […]

A day of errands

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2009-01-18 wt8p 3 comments

The last few weeks have been the melange of wintery weather: Pineapple Express, snow, ice, snow, travel to Florida (well, that was okay), and Pineapple Express: The Empire Strikes Back. In short, terrible for biking. The lack of recurring, physical outlet has not been good on my physique… or psyche. A forecast of “overcast and freezing fog” was a […]

Saving energy

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2008-07-12 wt8p 11 comments

Woodstock wrote about the Green Dilemma earlier this week. I thought I’d pick off a couple of cases and work through the math parts to determine if savings would really be economic savings. Case 1: consider my 15 year-old Kitchenaid top-freezer with an ice maker. The Kitchenaid Marketing Literature says the technology has improved: if you’re still using a refrigerator manufactured […]

Tape Art

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2008-03-31 wt8p 2 comments

Step 1: Find the vacuum cleaner. (It’s in the bedroom. No, the other bedroom. Maybe the study? Oh, wait, that’s right, I was vacuuming the garage carpets out – look there.) Step 2: Buy plastic film (not shown) and packing tape in Costco quantities. (1 CEU = five miles.) Step 3: Wrap vacuum in plastic film so it doesn’t spoil. […]

PHP-vil

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2008-03-28 wt8p 3 comments

All I wanted to do was migrate my work-related forum to a new host. Here’s how it should have worked: Copy stuff over Edit configuration files Populate database rock on Here’s how it actually worked: Copy stuff over Edit configuration files Populate database Software was unable to connect to a database because php5’s developers do not enable mysql by default. […]

Hyperion – Part 1

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2008-02-19 wt8p 2 comments

It’s was serendipitous when I found out a friend of mine would be teaching a Machine Learning class — her specialty — and her lectures would be recorded for posterity and she generously offered to let me “play from home.” How could I not seize the opportunity? During the fourth lecture, when she posted a slide showing work on orbital […]