Alice’s Fancy Party Pictures
I think we can say that our house warming party was an incredible success. No one died, the cops only showed up once, and we only had one leaker.
Alice’s Birthday!
June 2010
Way Late Update: Portland Adult Soapbox Derby!
My bad. The event was August 22nd, but I had sold my laptop and then we moved back to the Midwest two weeks later. I finally got these pictures recovered off of the extra laptop drive and processed. Working with these photos made me miss Portland even more. How long will I go before I ever see a random naked cyclist riding around the block on my way to the grocery store? Like everything else in Portland, this event was full of crazies expressing themselves constructively. No one died that I know of, but the ambulance did put on quite a few miles. Check out the gallery bellow.
Soapbox Derby,
August 2009
I hate Craigslist
I think people are just bored off in their own little world and need to mess with sellers to feel fulfilled. It is also very apparent that smart phones are the death of e-mail. Here is a guy that I don’t think I am interested in selling one of my items to…
Hi do you still have the power monkey charger
{craigslist ad URL}
Sent from my iPhone
Yes. The individual that called ‘dibs’ earlier in the week seems to have fallen off the map. If he doesn’t get back to me in the next 6 hours, you are more than welcome to pick it up later on tonight.
{Second Email after verifying the other individual wouldn’t be able to pick it up}
confirmed that he backed out. Are you interested in the powermonkey?
yea are you firm with the price
I bought it for 100 + 10 for the attachment for treo smart phones. I think 30 dollars is fair.
i was wondering because rechargable batteries loose capacity to charge over time
how long have you had it
less than a year
did you use it every day
no
i will be using it for my iphone
do you have connector for that
If an ipod adapter will also charge the Iphone, then yes
how about $25
If you can come by tomorrow before 5, Ill give it to you for 25. {address info follows}
i get out of work around 6 would it work if i come after that
Sorry, I am busy after 5. If you are truly interested in the Charger you can pay me the original asking price and stop by later this week when I am available.
{Wonder how he will respond to that 
}
Above is 15 emails over three days. Good thing I have all this free time… Hell, I’ll probably just sell it to Mouse for 15 tonight at Az’s event.
PDXLAN: Pre Game Bawls Fortress
Bill flew in late last night and we crashed out after taco bell. Damn you authentic staff member that didn’t understand what we ordered…
This morning we went in to help set up at PDXLAN. After having positively too much fun with duct tape we decided to take the 5 pallets of Bawls and make a play fort. All I can say is that when this thing falls over and kills someone, it won’t be the corner that I constructed that does it.
And boom goes the dynamite…
Another 4th come and gone. I didn’t see anyone get maimed, but that wasn’t for a lack of trying. The people watching was good and this time I actually had a tripod for the fireworks. I also have some more pictures from when Nick and Xeng swung through town, and should have those up later this week.
4th on the Water,
July 2009
Happy Fourth Everyone
Hopefully Ill have some awesome shots after the fireworks tomorrow night. I guess Vancouver’s fireworks got cut due to budget shortfalls, so there are going to be 60 thousand more Budweiser drinking burn ward victims in attendance this year.
Hard Drive weight increasing?
Stuff like this almost makes me miss my tech support job. Linkie for complete thread.
Apologies if this is the incorrect area for this question.
I’ve noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases. I have a bad back and am medically limited on the amount of weight I can carry so I need to be very carefull not to inflict injury upon myself.
I have also noticed my XBox feels heavier as well (the more games I save or purchase from arcade). I generally don’t travel with my XBox so that is not an issue for me, but note the I am having the same results.
My ask, what is the weight/file ratio? So for example, how many GB’s = 6oz? I dread the day I need a dolly to commute to work with my Laptop.
Thanks in advance!
And the Responses…
Dear friend:
Every Gigabyte counts as 5oz of extra weight for your computer.There has been cases (in computers with 1Tb of Hard drive and more) of people left eMule activated 3 days and when that people returned to the computer,there was a hole in the floor instead.
Maybe you should try a compression software (like 7zip for example) which help reducing the data’s weight.
Take care of those P2P software that quickly increase your data.Watch out and be careful.
Use MS-DOS to drastically reduce data weight.
Greetings from Spain!
Also:
I’m afraid I have to disagree with you on this one. The fact is that the equation to which you refer (discovered in the XVIIII century, by Lineus Torvaldus) involves gigabytes AND giggawatts (as opposed to your “jiggawatts” which have been deprecated). The correct form is “weight of data equals gigabytes divided by giggawatts” or wD=g/g.
Basic algebra shows that g/g=1, so wD=1
Divide both sides by D… w(D/D) = 1/D
thus eliminating (D/D) it renders. w = 1/DWhich reads: “The weight is the inverse of the Data”
This is the formal mathematical proof that the more data you store, the LESS the computer weights. If anything, this person should put his hamburger ON TOP of the laptop, to act as a paperwieght.
<3 the internet.
Community Activism and EMS Response Time
Another year of Pedalpalooza has come and gone, and what good is a farewell party without a few death defying, jaw dropping, concussion granting feats of lunacy? (The spellchecker has Unicycle immediately under Lunacy by the way…) I could talk more about the event, but the 49 photos and one concussion (WEAR YOUR HELMETS KIDS) just about sums it up.
Mult Co Bike Fair,
June 2009