Friday Nights
Champagne and orange juice, beautiful weather, Nine Inch Nails, and adding support for a third-party USB driver to Static. True relaxation.
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SDR Goodness
I finally noticed the little 9V DC input pins on the 144-148MHz down converter. Turns out it needs to be plugged in, so I deftly wired up a 9V battery to it.
Incompatible
Eating dinner while watching Dirty Jobs and drinking wine is not compatible. I stopped eating, not drinking. And speaking of wine, my liquor store now stocks palatable bottles for $3.99 to $4.99, so a case runs $48. My ability to cope with stress just improved substantially.
The Call Into the Wild: The Story of a Retarded Dog
I tore through The Call of the Wild at Starbucks while waiting on a 10.6.5 download. Jack London's clarity makes it a mesmerizing read, almost entirely without dialog. Also, I want to go back to Alaska.
SQLite
A quick tip to make the command line sqlite3 program actually useful: alias sqlite='sqlite3 -header -column'.
FindMeSpot Locator Alert!
Apparently we're still alive. Another New York ping, roughly half a mile from the marked point of interest and holding steady since the last check-in.
FindMeSpot Locator Alert!
Apparently we're still alive. The tracker puts us home in New York, New York, about two-thirds of a mile off the mark and not budging since last time.
FindMeSpot Locator Alert!
Apparently we're still alive. The tracker has us home in New York again, two-thirds of a mile out and not an inch moved since last time.
Why won't my p...
As suggested by reddit.
And squirrels
I drove an hour to the loop, waited for sunrise, and forgot my iPod. Then a dog chased me. The collective wisdom on dog chases is: don't outrun it, don't kick at it from the bike. Apparently there are also ultra-sonic devices for this. I'm going shopping.