Archive for the 'life and times' Category

Port Salut is delicious.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

I picked up a 6 ounce piece of port salut to be like half my dinner, and it was just ridiculously good. I don’t know how cheese connoisseurs eat cheese, or how they describe it to each other. But I know that Port Salut is delicious.

dobsonfly

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

I saw a dobsonfly on the shaded side of a column at work the other day. It was huge. If you’ve never seen one, you should totally hit up wikipedia for them. great grey slugs are also fascinating. Just thought I’d share…

A new challenger arrives (or the beginning of the complich8 cycloblog). Oh, and more travel: Louisville and Seattle updates.

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Ok, so this is sort of reverse chronological order, but that’s fine… So the first thing’s first. I just got a bike. It’s a Surly CrossCheck, 62cm frame (biggest they make). Shimano Tiagra/Deore components. Some crazy ultra-heavy-duty BMX downhill pedals. I’d been shopping for a bike for a couple months and ended up looking at [...]

More travelblogging: Houston, TX

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

So I didn’t think I’d be going back to Texas for a while, but apparently like half of our participant airlines live in some part of Texas or another. Which I guess makes sense, given the huge amounts of open, flat space with relatively light hurricane profiles, mild winters, and being in about the middle [...]

Inauguration Day and the chaos of millions

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

So after some hemming and hawing about whether or not to go to the inauguration, But in the end, some urging by friends and the fading symptoms of the cold I’ve fought for the last week, I opted to go ahead and go. And I gotta say, it was NUTS. Just insane numbers of people [...]