It’s been a rugged month, pouring on the overtime at the Evil Day Job from Hell. Server installation gone bad. Migration to a new content management system that gobbles up man hours the way the Devil snacks on the souls of young teens. The only thing that comes to mind when I get home from…
If you’re looking for royalty-free public domain photos for your blog or other project, you’re in luck. The Library of Congress just uploaded 3,000 vintage photos to Flickr, like the photo above, free for the taking. These pics are all first-class in terms of composition, lighting, balance and they look like a huge boon to…
Something that a reasonably smart person could overlook when buying a refrigerator online is to compare the measurements of the fridge to the measurements of the space in the kitchen where the fridge will go. If you are placing the refrigerator in a space between a wall and a cabinet, don’t forget to account for…
It’s day 30 and I’ve lost 2 lbs. faithfully following Timothy Ferriss’ Lose 20 Pounds of Fat in 30 Days Without Doing Any Exercise diet. I figure Mr. Ferriss owes me 18 lbs. right about now, payable in chocolate. Fact is that I had to cheat and start pumping a daily 20 minutes on the…
Sure, trees look oh-so-huggable from a distance. But get too close and a tree might try stab you through the floorboards of your Jeep. I know from experience, the trees are pissed off and they’re not going to take it lying down. [Via JeepNewsNow]
I think I’ll make snowshoes…
I’m being stalked by a word. First it pops up in a Rick Mckinley sermon I heard on my iPhone. This same word practically beats me to death when we watched Night of the Hunter before Christmas. Over New Year’s the word snuck up on me in a game of Wii bowling (with Mii characters…
Take 84 hotel maids and tell half of them that their job consists of exercise, lots of it, and what happens? The half that learns about the burn factor of their job loses weight and sees an improvement in blood pressure. The other half doesn’t. Maybe obesity is psychosomatic? Via NPR.
At the edge of Coyoteville we’re too cheap to subscribe to Consumer Reports. This makes it a little tough to get the straight dope on big ticket durable goods. But with our beer getting warm and Home Depot’s 10% discount set to expire at midnight, we decided to do the best with what we have.…
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. To-day, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our…
I know, here it comes: the retrospective cliche. But what are you going to do? Highlights for 2007 included a DEAD WHALE!!!!, my first backpacking trip in 20 years, nearly losing my wife, getting lost in Ballinger canyon after dark, learning to identify birds, joining a climbing gym, and of course, my daughter’s wedding.
Tim Ferriss promises that you can lose 20 lbs. of fat in 30 days without exercise. Let’s just ignore the fact that Tim’s diet spanned six weeks (not 30 days) during which time he lost 15 lbs. (not 20), and forget the fact that Tim’s diet role model cheats by exercising a little (50 marathons…
This weekend I tried out the auto belay device at the local climbing gym. Remember, I’m not a climber. I start getting uncomfortable when I get over ten feet off the ground. And the auto belay is not giving me any solace here. The device works like those key rings that janitors clip to their…
Engadget has an article about a Land Rover concept car that uses an iPhone to control the vehicle. Aside from the gee-whiz cool factor of the thing, you really have to wonder about the logic of having a touch-screen electronic interface for a vehicle with the core purpose of traveling in harsh conditions. It seems…
How do you treat raw skin and build calluses after a weekend of rock climbing? My new challenge started a couple of weeks ago after I joined the local climbing gym. A few hours on the artificial walls and I’d peeled the skin off the palms of my hands in seven places. Three of the…
