13th Oct 06: Number 98 Engine, originally uploaded by machaggis. In south-eastern Ballard there’s a train behind a fence.{X50, as taken}
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Biking
Once more bike commuting saves my fat ass from, well, becoming fatter. Mon (23rd): bike to/from work Tue: nada (very rainy) Wed: bike to/from work Thu: nada (danika’s birthday) Fri: bike to/from work Sat: nada (danika’s party) Sun: nada (lazy boy) Although three days isn’t going to make me slim, but any means.
Continue readingNaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month (November) begins soon – it always seems like way too much work, although post-Amazon I am tempted this year. However I have other distractions and travel planned, so I’m skipping once more.
Continue readingAn Apple Store for Glasgow
The only time I go to the Apple Store in Seattle (there are two) is to gawk at new toys and take back broken Macs. However Glasgow will soon have this privilege too.
Continue readingThe Saints Are Coming
U2 and Green Day, about New Orleans. Not as seen on TV. For Paul.
Continue readingPolitics in the US of A
I’m planning to start blogging and posting aphotoperday again – soon. I’ve had conflicting priorities and technical issues in the last couple of weeks. I’m almost there though, I’m now at the stage where I’m resurrecting my Mac from it’s ‘clean hard drive’ repair with Apple and have ran into an issue that technical people […]
Continue readingA week of no exercise
And following on from an impressive track record of bike commuting, we see what a little business travel does to activities – this is why the belly expands! Mon (16th): nada (biz travel) Tue: nada (biz travel) Wed: nada (biz travel) Thu: nada (jetlag) Fri: nada (well, technically we did do a fair bit of […]
Continue readingSome belated activities
Computer is slowly getting back to a state of normality – so here’s a catchup on activity logs: Mon (9th): bike to/from work (no ski conditioning because it was Columbus day?) Tue: bike to/from work Wed: nada Thu: bike to/from work Fri: bike to/from work Sat: Tiger – the last of the season Sun: nada […]
Continue readingBallard Corners Park
I’ve indirectly mentioned Ballard Corners Park before, in a photo per day in June. It’s now time, however, to throw my hat (and heart) in the ring and do the full on “nothing-comes-for-free-in-America-isn’t-neighbourhood-fund-raising-a-great-thing” thing. I live in Ballard (inballard, wikipedia), it’s a nice little community but by a freak of its past it’s short of […]
Continue reading1,000 Songs
One for the geeks: the iPod launch video. I have one. “your whole music library” – if only they knew. Update: The Joy of Tech iPod Birthday cartoon. Update: And Wired’s Birth of the iPod story.
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