I'm Better Than You

Search my name on Google and I'm 2nd place, behind some random person. But I'm 2nd out of 78,800 while he's 1st out of 910. You do the math.

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A/V Sync

The A/V sync in my backyard is broken. Construction noise across the neighborhood lags the motion by a fraction of a second. I'm going to find the foreman and ask him to push the audio track forward a quarter second.

I posted.

Julie. See. I posted. Be happy.

My Mouth

Two cops were walking around my house. I went out to ask why; turns out it was an alarm I don't have, at a number that wasn't mine. Another exciting day in Cherokee county.

Bacon Tastings

Starving on my way home from being paid $125 to give my opinion on bacon, I grabbed a bottle of wine. The cashier asked if this Pinot Noir tastes like Merlot. "I certainly hope not." That killed the conversation.

A Car for Every Student

Cherokee County's 2007 education budget is $600M for 35k students: a little over $17k each. That's a nice private school tuition plus a very nice used car, per student, per year. I think I pay too much in property taxes.

The Seven P's

Proper Prior Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance. This is the kind of poetic beauty that English can provide.

Denying Winter

There are only two seasons here: Warm and Cold. So I turned a den into a sealed, 75-degree refuge with a big electric heater while the rest of the house freezes. My computers are in here, so I rarely need to leave.

Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Two weeks on, I'd do the grueling four-day hike again, given the chance, ideally with an extra day to explore the caldera. I overlaid my GPS track logs on Google Earth imagery, and I learned to tape my toes. Lessons learned the hard way.