A house fly just landed on my screen. The light from the screen shines through his abdomen revealing a seemingly hollow chamber with a spine down the middle. The fly seemed content just cleaning himself as I chatted with Matt, but then I got kind of annoyed at his bathing on my screen. I didn’t want to touch him, so I decided to pester him with the mouse cursor, which at the time was a link-rollover hand. Sure enough, it made the little bugger nervous and he started to move to avoid the pointing finger. Being a boy, and this being virtual-poking, I kept at it, and the fly flew off. Solving problems with technology.
Author: Andy
No more free donuts
British Chemists have developed a plastic-based blood substitute that may work as a short term replacement for human blood in emergency situations. Cool stuff, but I’m rather fond of the free donuts when you donate on Thursdays.
More sidewalk typos
I’ve walked by this one so many times I don’t know how I missed it. Southwest corner of NE Emerson and NE 27th. Emerson is spelled with 2 M’s.
The icing on the cake? The contractor stamp is misspelled too. My boys at Giebisch & Joplin should have had someone else doing the stamping. Maybe it was a disgruntled employee?
Bike that fits
After a year of knee problems from riding, and a failure to diagnose the problem myself, I finally scheduled a fitting with Bike Gallery on Sandy. The fitting took about 2 hours, and included tweaking my pedals, shoes, seat/post, and stem, but today’s ride was awesome. I got to work in almost record time without knee pain, and I was comfortable.
Also, it was just in time for next week’s Bike to Work Day festivities.
Big bike ride
Michelle, my parents, a group of friends and I all rode a lengthy 90ish miles this weekend. Saturday we rode from Lynnwood to Edmonds, ferried Edmonds to Kingston, rode Kingston to outside Port Townsend, and spent the night. The next day we rode in to PT, ferried to Keystone (on Whidbey Island), rode south to Clinton, ferried from Clinton to Mukilteo, and rode from Mukilteo uphill back to Lynnwood. The route and the ride were awesome. John has more.
Not quite crawling, but…
Ella is doing the 2-shuffle version of crawling, but she’s not letting that get in the way of her mobility. It’s kind of scary. A lot of fun, but scary too.
On the day you were born
So I’m in charge of the adding news headlines from the day Ella was born to her baby book but I’m having difficulties. Michelle says headlines like “20 pilgrims killed by sniper” and “First CIA Civilian Contractor Convicted for Assaulting Detainee” are not something that belong in a child’s book. She’s happy with “Italian hail storm threatens pesto stock” though, but there really wasn’t much else good or amusing going on in the news that day other than sports. Maybe I need to pick up the Weekly World News.
A resolution to impeach the vice president
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has submitted a resolution to the House of Representatives to impeach vice president Dick Cheney for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” I hope this gets some floor time.
From the evidence:
“And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.” March 16, 2003,
NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
Our belief… in fact… hmm…. sounds familiar. Tossing around the word fact like it’s conversation filler.
Michelle’s last day
Today is Michelle’s last day with her current employer. She seems to be carrying around a mix of sadness, optimism, and anxiousness. To the future!
Just the facts
I’ve rediscovered public radio by accident. A such, I’ve heard a lot of quotes from politicians and activists lately. I’ve also rediscovered that people don’t know what a fact is, and when to use it.
When you start a sentence with “The facts is…”, I will stop listening to you so I don’t hear when you continue with “…I believe that…” A fact about your belief is as important as a non-expert’s opinion. Just say you believe something. Don’t treat it like a fact.
It was somewhat refreshing to hear Attorney General Gonzalez testify this morning because he did not mix his recollections or opinions with facts. At least he kept the dignity of the word.