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In what was one of the most incredible showings of humanity for the opening of a bicycle & pedestrian path anywhere in the U.S., hundreds of cyclists – and hundreds more walkers and elected officials – showed up on a Friday afternoon to cut the ribbon on the long-awaited Cal Park Tunnel in Marin County, […] I remember the day Obama was sworn in, the drudge report headlined with a photo of the latest dow jones industrial average chart, with the line “Cold Start On Wall Street”. This annoys me mostly because it’s not an accurate assessment of the association between politics and wall street. It also annoys me because it […] It’s open season for health insurance selection at my job, and I got this awesome blurb in an e-mail today: Although you may be taking a prescription that prevents a condition (e.g., heart attack), the drug is not considered a “Preventive Drug” unless it is on the Preventive Drug List. That is just awesome […] As if on cue, fall has arrived with rain in tow. Important things are happening, nonetheless: the Seahawks are winning Bill Clinton is in town someone important is almost walking and our dog has finally found a comfortable pillow […] Click to view this full size. Credits: jgombarcik, MartinB, M Phatik, and Todd Tankersley Wired Magazine Ah, the pleasures of having your own site. On Thursday, I downloaded the latest version of wordpress (2.9.2) to install over the weekend. After spending a couple hours on the install this morning, and troubleshooting to get things to work, I finally logged in and was greeted with the cheery message “WordPress 3.0 is available. […] I would like to add this photo to thereifixedit, but as that site usually shows fixes that don’t actually work, I think this one might not qualify. It appears to be both fully functional and fully awesome. …except that I just got an awesome toy/tool – the kill a watt! It’s pretty simple, just plug it into an outlet and plug something into it and it will read off pretty much any metric you want concerning electricity usage. Volts, Amps, Volt-Amps, Watts, and KWh (measured over however long you leave it there). […] I do these things for fun. Really. When I filed my taxes this year, some burning questions hit me. Mainly, I wanted to know two things – where did my tax money go, and how did it get there? Actually, I’m rather painfully aware of the answer to the second one with each passing paycheck, […] |