Archive for the 'Miscellany' Category



New toys

A couple days ago, I received two items that I purchased on eBay that will enable me to create some new types of content for this website. I’m excited about the possibilities.
First, I got a helmet cam. I hope to use it for mountain biking, and when the season comes around again, cross-country skiing, and […]

Recent videos

I believe this was taken going down Wheeler Creek (at Copper):

I was just goofing off while riding in the car, but I like how this turned out:

Happy Valentines Day

Here it is: my quarterly post. I’ll try to do better in the future.
My apologies.

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2005

I’m on my way out of town. I spent yesterday and today with my parents and I hope everyone had a Christmas as merry as mine. I won’t be back until January 3rd, so Happy New Year as well.

Update: March 24, 2005
The spaces are to allow line breaks in narrow windows. Googleguy confirms.

I don’t know if anyone else out there has noticed this, but Google sometimes lists results with superfluous spaces. The spaces aren’t in the actual links, but they are in the text-only URL at the bottom of each listing. While functionally […]

Stealing the Symphony

Heather and I found out at around 7:50 that the CSO season opener was tonight. The show was to start at 8:00 and we weren’t dressed, had no tickets and were a half hour drive away. Since we’re such orchestra fiends, we decided to see if we could get in anyway.
We got dressed as quickly […]

Filling A Need

I love it. I wrote a post earlier about the Aimee Mann song on the West Wing because I wanted to find out more about the song. That post has become a high ranking Google result for relevant searches. Now it is a source of information (hopefully useful) for others that saw the show and […]

Ultra-budgeting

A few minutes ago, as I was showering, I got to thinking about the expensive, smallish bar of soap sitting in front of me. This bar is not a regular bar of soap. Nay, it is a bar of Neutrogena Face Soap. I purchased it to appease my girlfriend who complains about showering at my […]

Disappointed Perverts

The search term that brings the most vistors to my site is “transvestite”. I see it in my logs so frequently that I didn’t have to look it up to spell it just now. But, you ask, “why does ‘transvestite’ return your site,” and some of you may be asking, “are you a transvestite?” To […]

I love all of this guy’s art, and there are a few that I would like to own, but this one [chrisbishop.com] struck a chord. Ahhh.

I Love Collegedale

I live in Collegedale, TN, and I love it. I’ll tell you why.
This morning I noticed that my keys weren’t in any of their usual resting places. The last time I remembered seeing them was after playing racquetball last night. While I’ve never lost a set of keys, it isn’t unusual for me to […]

Gone Quiet

My loyal readers (yes, this means you Jon and Montie) may be wondering where I’ve been for the past week. I didn’t go anywhere, but this week has been a little different. Here’s why:

Heather got back this week and I’ve been spending time with her.
I’ve been trying to get to bed a bit earlier (read: […]

Aimee Mann on the West Wing

If you want to be notified if I find this song, post a comment below. I will send an email to everyone who has posted here if and when the song is found.

Update 3/29/2006:
According to reader Cary Grant, Michael Lockwood, who produced the song, is unable to release it because he does not have permission […]

Google as spellchecker

Am I the only one that uses Google like this?
If in doubt, I type the word in question into my search toolbar. When the results are returned, there are several indicators I use to determine if the word is spelled correctly. I just searched for “indefatiguable” [google.com]:

The blue bar titled Web contains a link if […]

My parents got a dune buggy

I’ve known about this for a couple weeks, but I saw it for the first time today. I can’t believe my folks have such an impractical vehicle - very unlike them.
I was in Calhoun, GA, where my parents live, for some friends’ wedding (Louis Licht and Stacy Bruce Stacy Licht). The wedding was lovely, but […]