To anticipate and prevent
Hopefully, this doesn’t come to a shock to any of our readers, but on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 the major hostilities of World War I ended (with Germany signing the Armistice). Here in the United States of America, we refer to this as Veterans Day, others…
Winter is upon us. Well, us that live in the Northern Hemisphere. For those of us in higher elevations and higher latitudes that means snow is coming soon. Snow is not so fun on a motorcycle (don’t even think about chaining up). Thus, as I did last year, I am planning to migrate my bike…
I live in California, and as such lane splitting (or lane sharing, white lining or filtering) is completely legal. Okay, to be exact, it isn’t illegal. Good enough for me. I generally don’t lane split except when traffic is going very slow (below 30mph). I am not the lane splitter you hate; you know the…
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On Saturday, The Maiden Heist showed up at my place (thank you netflix). It is sort of odd that I received it on Saturday as Amazon says this isn’t due till November 24. The Maiden Heist stars Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and William H. Macy. All three actors are guards at a museum, each of…
I’ve got an ASUS Eee PC 1000, and it is a fine little device. Originally it came with Xandros, which quickly became Ubuntu. I was especially happy futzing about with UNR 9.04. Unfortunately for Linux, Windows 7 was coming out, so I wanted to try that out on the netbook. I like Windows 7, but…
As I was at the grocery store recently, I happened to find myself in the liquor aisle. At the time, I was looking for Everclear, but that is a matter for another blog post. I did not find the Everclear, but what I did find was a number of Sweet Tea Vodkas, which piqued my…