Author: paul

time to sell another bike

It hasn’t been ridden in I don’t know how long and has more sawdust on it than road grime…. I have my Diamondback hybrid (as if I ride it either) and I am more likely to take it out than a dropped bar road bike.

Update: it’s gone. Kinda sad to search for this post and find mentions of when I got and enjoyed it. Ah, well, the new owner looks like he’ll enjoy it. That’s good.

Looks like I may as well sell my road bike.

It hasn’t been ridden in I don’t know how long and has more sawdust on it than road grime. It’s not like l am going to ride it. I have my Diamondback hybrid (as if I ride it either) and I am more likely to take it out than a dropped-bar road bike.

So off to Craigslist, I guess. Something about selling it bothers me, though. Perhaps the persistent sense of regret at not riding it more (or at all). At least I hope that’s all it is.

Done.

hypocrisy? I’m shocked

Buckley discovers the virtues of regulation and calls for government intervention to help fix the mortgage crisis.

If conservative principles are abandoned so easily in the face of a bad economic situation, what was the whole thing about in the first place?

Signs of the Apocalypse

Via Elizabeth Warren: William F. Buckley discovers the virtues of regulation and calls for government intervention to help fix the mortgage crisis.

If conservative principles are abandoned so easily in the face of a bad economic situation, what was the whole thing about in the first place?

[From Signs of the Apocalypse – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog]

The comments are spot on, as well.

AMZN vs iTMS

Apple has offered a free track (or three) of the week for a while now, though they do a lot more TV shows and shorts.

…Whoever is running the music store at Amazon must know that: they send an email bright and early, letting me know what the bonus track is and what else is new for the week./p> Competition is a good thing.

It’s New Music Tuesday, the traditional day of the week for new releases. Apple has offered a free track (or three) of the week for a while now, though they do a lot more TV shows and shorts. But they update pretty late in the day, sometimes not til the next day or close to it.

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Whoever is running the music store at Amazon must know that: they send an email bright and early, letting me know what the bonus track is and what else is new for the week.

Competition is a good thing.

so that’s where the AIR comes from

The dimensions preclude a lot of stuff, like an optical drive, and the AIR naming suggested it would be wireless first and foremost. I assume it can be on a wired network, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that requires a USB add-on.

Once the name and form factor were revealed (leaked?) last night, I started to think this might be the result.

802.11n networking, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Built to be a wireless machine.
No internal optical drive. $99 accessory optical drive.
10:20am:
What do we do with optical drives? Movies, software, backups, and burn cds?
We can now install software wirelessly.
New feature — remote disc. It will show you macs or PCs in your vicinity. You can pick one of those machines, and borrow it’s optical drive. You can then see what’s in their optical drive. PCs can read mac installers. Use it just like a local optical drive.
We also didn’t want to compromise battery. 5 hours claimed life.

[From Liveblogging the 2008 Macworld Steve Jobs Keynote | Gadget Lab from Wired.com]

The dimensions preclude a lot of stuff, like an optical drive, and the AIR naming suggested it would be wireless first and foremost. I assume it can be on a wired network, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that requires a USB add-on. I like the idea of leveraging a networked optical drive: I don’t use mine that often. Why pay for it in the purchase price or the weight/size?

My guess is they’ll sell out of these pretty quickly 😉

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

[Michael] Pollan has a set of simple rules for eating that really resonate: “Shop the edges of the grocery store, not the middle,” “Eat things your great grandmother might have eaten,” “Eat nothing that bears a health or nutritional claim,” and so on. [From In Defense of Food: NPR interview with Michael Pollan about “Eat food. Not too much.

[Michael] Pollan has a set of simple rules for eating that really resonate: “Shop the edges of the grocery store, not the middle,” “Eat things your great grandmother might have eaten,” “Eat nothing that bears a health or nutritional claim,” and so on. [From In Defense of Food: NPR interview with Michael Pollan about “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”]

links for 2008-01-15

is this the elusive MacBookAir?

I’d be more convinced if I saw the “About this Mac” dialog .

…See more trivia here: OS X running on a Dell Latitude and A Presario?


MacBookAir
Originally uploaded by Frunny.

Hmm. This time tomorrow we’ll know for sure. I’d be more convinced if I saw the “About this Mac” dialog . . . . even if that can be faked just as easily.


See more trivia here: OS X running on a Dell Latitude and A Presario?