Last May, we took a long weekend to go dig fossils at the Stonerose Interpretive Center in Republic, WA. The fossils are from the Eocene epoch (about 50 million years ago), when eastern Washington was tropical. The city of Republic was part of an ancient lake. For a nominal fee ($6/person plus $4 for hammer […]
Mister Peabody, set the Wayback Machine to three years ago, pick a spot during a really long product release cycle. Partly out of boredom, but mostly to mess with development manager at the time, I had asked one of the developers to swap out the splash screen. The product logo was thus modified: Official Battle-ready!
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While cleaning out my study, I found my Garmin Edge 305 GPS sitting in the back of a desk drawer. The poor, poor neglected device hasn’t had any fitness loving in the last year because its battery was unable to hold a charge more than an hour – down from >10 hours new. This is
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I have to agree with Elizabeth that the whole taking a phone call in the middle of a meeting is off-putting. Some of my coworkers are notorious about this, often jumping to address a quadrant 4 domestic issue. I do try to ignore any calls until after the meeting’s over. One exception is if my spouse’s
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
Puget Sound Energy has a pilot program going on where they send a subset of customers an “energy report” comparing their consumption to neighbors (image links to larger one): For October 2008, I am 2% above my “efficient neighbors,” whoever they are, and that lumps me into the good but not great category. Oh, don’t
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Not that I need another hobby, but… I’ve belatedly taken my friend Tracey’s suggestion to try geocaching, essentially a treasure hunt. When I started reading about it last month, I was impressed with how many of these things there are. Check out the map of geocaches within a few miles of home: The first one
Google’s Gmail has a nifty feature that lets you set up other mailboxes so they’re accessible in one place. Thus, instead of logging into one of my other domains’ mail client to answer email sent to “toothfairy@” (for kids who might want to ask about the business model), I can just do it from Google.