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Permalink to this day Monday, January 12, 2004

While watching the Daily Show someone made a recommendation that we need a 'safe space' for conservatives on the UW campus. But hasn't our campus been overrun with conservatives?
11:14:16 PM  Permalink to this item []

Last night's spontaneous adventure..

Yesterday afternoon at 3pm we heard a rumor that some engineer friends of ours were going night skiing at Blue Mountain. Sounded like a good idea. Rumor has it the drive was only 2 hours, we could then ski from 5:30pm to 10pm. So at 3:30 we round up the math troops and hit the road.

Unfortunately it started to snow, got dark, and was very windy, thus making the drive take forever. Of course once we hit the halfway point we got a call from the engineers that they finally got their act together and got to Guelph but that they had gotten lost and were going to turn around and skiing at Chicopee. Since we were at the halfway point we stuck it out and go to Blue Mountain just before 7pm.

Of course during the drive up watching the temperature drop, snow falls increase I had a vision of this road trip turning into something like the worst detour ever. But, it turned out okay. It didn't take us long to rent Nat some skiis and get on the slopes. Once on the slopes we tore them up. The conditions were pretty good and the hill was actually a decent size (740 foot vertical).

While it was a good time, the moral of the story is that Blue Mountain is very fair away and that it only makes sense going if you are going for the whole day.

And those engineer friends ended up leaving a message on our machine that they went to Chicopee and that it was closed. Suckers.
10:27:40 PM  Permalink to this item []


Here's a large satellite photo of the Microsoft Campus where I will be working.
2:46:51 PM  Permalink to this item []

Thanks to Natalie's Dad and Carol's Home Depot gift certificate I recently replaced the upstairs and downstairs faucets. Of course a day after replacing these faucets the kitchen cold water stopped working. After a day of no cold water the residents grew restless so I started to debug the problem.

My hypothesis was that either the pipe was frozen or the faucet was broken. To test this I removed the connection between the faucet and the pipe and turned on the water; nothing came out. Conclusion: Frozen pipes.

I called my Dad and I worked through several ways of resolving this frozen pipe problem. The first was pouring hot water down the pipe. This was not successful. The next was trying to shove a coat hanger down the pipe; it was not long enough. The final solution was to go buy a propane torch (only $15) and heat up the exposed copper pipes in the hope that the heat would conduct down to the frozen part and melt it. Fortunately, after a lot of blow torching this worked and we now have cold water again.

Now before you dismiss the Hotel Goyer as some freezing cold ghetto, the same day our pipe froze our neighbor's downstairs bathroom completely froze up. I didn't think it was that cold here but I guess it was.
2:44:48 PM  Permalink to this item []


I just bought a new cold water tap for the upstairs shower and it was $25! It's not even fancy!

...The shower industry is using a 'planned obsolescent' strategy. If you look at how the tap connects to the cartridge they use a star shapped pattern. However, over time the small points on the star wear down and the tap begins to slip requiring you to replace it with a new one. Now if instead they used some sort of slot or cross design I think it would be very unlikely that this contact mechanism would wear out.
2:36:31 PM  Permalink to this item []


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