Disturbing

Easily the most disturbing logo I've seen. SQLFairy. He has nice calf definition though. I'll give him that.

A Social of Anti-Socials

I went to a developer conference thing yesterday. My first one in a very long time. The venue was a nice hotel in midtown. The morning started with a light breakfast and this intensely boring Introductory Session. After that, we all adjourned to our choice of sessions, depending on what

Liberty Ridge

I was in Springfield Missouri, buying wine for Thanksgiving when one of the luminaries at RMI called me. After introducing himself he got right to the point: "If you're still interested in doing Liberty Ridge, we have room for you in June." Awesome. So I got

McKinley Training - Week 4 of 26

Thanksgiving sort of interfered with my normal training stuff, but since I was in Missouri, I took the opportunity to do some running outside. Which was awesome. Treadmills will steal your soul. Monday I ran 71 flights of stairs. For the first time, I started timing my stair running so

Death by Shopper

Uggh. Check this out. At some Wal-Mart on Long Island a crowd of a couple thousand people waited outside for the store's Black Friday sales. Eventually, the crowd broke into the store by pressing and pounding on the glass doors. Once the doors broke open, they trampled to

Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim, Take Two

We're planning another Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim for October '09. And you are invited. You have a full 10+ months to prepare, but don't hesitate - start your training now. See that picture? Click on it. The *entire* hike just involves scurrying on over to that

Having no better place...

Having no better place to store these jokes for future reference, I'll commit them to my blog. -- A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts to

McKinley Training - Week 3 of 26

Last week I made two trips to the gym (just running and weights) and three stair running trips: fifty flights the first time and sixty-three each of the last two times. The last time, I managed to do the whole set up stairs (21 stories), without stopping, twice, which is

Wine: Angeline 2006 Pinot Noir of Sonoma County

The first thing this wine has going for it, is that it's not the Shiraz from yesterday. A little fruity. The label claims that its earthy, but I don't know what that means. Tastes like dirt? Thankfully not. It nicely complemented some salmon and the after-salmon

Wine: Blackwing 2006 Shiraz of South Australia

My answer to Nate's beer blog: I always buy Pinot Noirs. And occasionally Merlots. Rarely anything else. I'm often subjected to white wines and various blends. Some are okay. Some are not okay. This evening when I went in search of a good red wine to