a crank’s progress

that you can eat a banana without working front teeth, as long as you have a knife
that you can lose weight this way
that I was very lucky not to come off worse: jaw injuries — broken or extremely concussed — are very common cycling injuries
I learned how strong my school community is
as a result of [...]

AlterNet: MediaCulture: Behind Closed Doors:
Comic artist Marjane Satrapi reveals what Iranian women talk about when they’re alone.
Sex, sex, and more sex, it seems. Not that different from what happens here, wherever your particular “here” might be.

Clickable installer for DarwinPorts 1.0 release:
For those who want a _really_ easy bootstrap into 1.0 land, please
download:
http://packages.opendarwin.org/DarwinPorts-1.0.dmg
In this image, you’ll find a clickable package file that installs a
ready-to-go, pre-synched copy of DarwinPorts 1.0. There are even
some setup instructions in the installer, so if naive users don’t
click through the screens too fast, they’ll see what [...]

Sphinx:
Cat with wings:

Sphinx:

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (37):
Mac OS X started its life as the most ambitious consumer operating system ever produced. Apple abandoned its existing, 16-year-old code base for something entirely new. Out of the gate, Mac OS X was a technical curiosity with few applications, and a performance dog. A scant four [...]

We invited our school board members and administrators to a meeting tonight to hear what we have to say about their proposed school closures. 233 people came from the school community and the neighborhood, with presentations and open comment.
I think it went extremely well: the board members et al who came should now understand that [...]

If you’re a mac geek thinking of buying Tiger as soon as it’s available…..:
Backup Brain:
If that’s you, wait a second, and think about it this way: if you buy just Tiger, its list price is $129. But if (after Friday) you buy a Mac mini instead, it’s $499 — which means that you’re really only [...]

So my little spill on Sunday looks to be about $2000 worth of damage. Preventive care is covered under our plan, but we didn’t sign up for the standard plan (that does cover restorative care), just the basic.
Aaargh.

Looks like we have almost all the school board members and several of the upper echelon administrators coming out to meet with us tomorrow night. We’ll calmly but forcefully explain why their conclusions are wrong, and more to the point, where the underlying analysis is flawed.
Basing the disposition of a school’s population on the [...]

I have a lot going on at the moment, but I do need to call Speakeasy. This ^%^&(& cable modem went south again: same drill as usual — drop the dhcp lease on the server, unplug the cable modem for a minute, plug in it, power it up, then request a new lease.
Does that [...]