Category Archives: Consumption

Road Bike Fitting at Cycle U

As part of gearing up for doing the STP, a 202 mile race from Seattle to Portland that I’m going to do one day, I went to Cycle U for a bike fitting (I ride a Specialized Allez Elite Triple). … Continue reading

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New Gadget: Flip MinoHD aka Flip HD

Since my quick video of a Olive 8 condo unit was so popular I impulse bought a Flip Video MinoHD from Amazon. I ordered it Wednesday night and got it Thursday for only $3.99 shipping. Gotta love Amazon Prime. I … Continue reading

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I Will Only Buy From Amazon

Curious about how to design better web forms I bought Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski from the publisher, Rosenfeld, because the book then would come with a PDF for the same cost as buying it from Amazon. I ordered … Continue reading

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Boat is out of the water

Saturday I bought Rob’s 1993 Land Cruiser and depleted his stock of LandCruisers down to 2. Fortunately the Bank Of Rob has not discontinued their liar loan sub prime products and I was able to use creative financing to get … Continue reading

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Morale event at the Ferrari dealership

I live beside a Ferrari and Maserati dealership; this is the view out my window: So when Jeff mentioned that he had a voucher for free Omaha steaks if he test drove a Maserati we decided to have a small … Continue reading

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Links 11-27-06

Wood LED Clock – Maybe this is the designer alarm clock to go in my new condo ‘The Big One’ Is a Big Problem for Old Seattle Houses The Windows Shutdown crapfest – This is so true and totally happened … Continue reading

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Doormat

Nice. Available at DormGear.

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Alarm clock

One of these days I’ll get a new alarm clock… Perhaps this one, ON-OFF:

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Road bike

Friday night I bought a used 56″ Specialized Allez Elite Triple (model year unknown) via Craigslist. It’s got an aluminum frame, carbon fork & seatpost and Shimano 105 components. I’m looking forward to ripping around Seattle on it this summer! … Continue reading

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Indoor grilling

Jenn-Air: Jenn-Air® 30″ Gas Downdraft Cooktop Do you have a favorite indoor grill? Update: I’ve learned that these indoor grills have larger than normal venting requirements potentially making it difficult to put in a renovated space or in a new … Continue reading

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