Thu: Sep 02, 2010

» Jersey Circus. I'm quite proud to be able to state I've never seen any part of any episode of Jersey Shore. This is still disturbing through.     #


» First Annual Garden Cruiser Bike Tour! Put on by my CSA, we'll be touring the yards that provide the food and snacking along the way.     #


» and then he was done … Bacon Waffles. I have GOT to get me a waffle iron!     #


» Are You Being Served?

The real problem may be that companies have a roving eye: they’re always more interested in the customers they don’t have. So they pour money into sales and marketing to lure new customers while giving their existing ones short shrift, in an effort to minimize costs and maximize revenue.
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» Has the identity Top Gear's 'The Stig' finally been revealed? I think it was better as a mystery...     #


Wed: Sep 01, 2010

» With Salmonella, It's A Chicken-Or-Egg Conundrum. Glad I've been getting mine from my CSA, I actually know the person who supplies the eggs (the CSA owners mom...)     #


» 14ers by Difficulty. Keep in mind that's a subjective ranking system, averaged out by users of 14ers.com.     #


» Monarch Crest Shuttle. I haven't been up there in 8 years, I'd love to sneak it in before the end of the season.     #


» 'No-frills' budget hotel takes policy to the extreme. Don't know if I'd stay there as a business traveler but if I had just a night or two in London I'd definitely go for it.     #


» Machine Gun Shootout, in Colorado Springs next weekend.

We will be renting out 200 machine guns to the public. We will also be demonstrating our Flame thrower. At the end of each day, we will be doing our "mad minute", where all the machine guns will be shot at once. We will have available Uzi's, Mack-10's, Ak-47's, M-16's,MP-5's, H & K's, Silenced guns, 50 cals, 20 mm's, Belt fed machine guns, canons, and much much more! The cost to shoot these will depend on what caliber and how many rounds you want to shoot.(average cost is M-16 & AK47- $50.00 for 120 rds. Belt feds 50 rds- $35.00. Uzi's $10.00- 25 rds)
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» HK MP5 briefcase. Cool.

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» Major Update To The Gear Section. Yowza, quite a kit he has there.     #


» Adobe Lightroom 3.2 & Camera Raw 6.2 Final Versions     #


Tue: Aug 31, 2010

» Xcel socks Denver with nation's 2nd-highest electric-rate increase. Glad I have that solar system installed!     #


Mon: Aug 30, 2010

» 1928 Tommy Gun, in a custom violin case, very pretty (though apparently you can buy a current violin case but it won't come with the cool interior strap system.)     #


» Getting to Know Your Blog: A Beginner’s How-To-Guide (for Wordpress blogs in particular...)     #


Fri: Aug 27, 2010

» Standing on the knife edge on the ridge to Capitol Peak (and a trip report: Capitol Peak: A Pinnacle of Achievement.)

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» Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy.

There is hope. There is a growing movement to amend the U.S. Constitution, to strip corporations of the legal status of “personhood,” the concept that corporations have the same rights as regular people.

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Thu: Aug 26, 2010

» 'Ground Zero mosque'? The reality is less provocative

That's literally all I'd ask them in an interview. I'd stand there pointing at a map of the city. Would it be offensive here? What about here? Or how about way over there? And when they finally picked a suitable spot, I'd ask them to draw it on the map, sketching out roughly how big it should be, and how many windows it's allowed to have. Then I'd hand them a colour swatch and ask them to decide on a colour for the lobby carpet. And the conversation would continue in this vein until everyone in the room was in tears. Myself included.
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» 'First Ascent' Trailer. Pretty tempted to pick up that pack of DVDs, I generally like all of the Sender Films stuff...     #


» 10 Hidden Modifiers Tricks in Lightroom. Tip number 1 made the whole thing worth it for me right there.     #


» Purchase a Colorado Outdoor Recreation Search and Rescue (CORSAR) Card. I picked up a 5-year at REI, cheap enough and makes me feel better if I need a rescue...     #


» Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight     #


» Night Time Use of JCOS Parks

In order to gauge the level of interest in the possibility that one or two parks might be opened to night time trail use, this survey has been been prepared, and is being offered informally to collect some feedback on this idea. To be clear, JCOS is not an author, sponsor or participant in this survey in any way.

I have a pretty decent headlamp for my bike and used to love night riding (generally hoping to not get caught as well.) It's ideal in the summer when it's too hot to ride during the day...     #


» Scott Pilgrim vs. The Matrix. Well done!

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» Canon EOS 60D Preview. Sigh, here I was hoping for an upgrade to the 50D (especially since I still have a 40D, I figured I'd jump to this new model.) Unfortunately it's no better quality build than a Digital Rebel, they've ruined the x0D-series in the name of "slightly better than consumer". It used to be the x0D was the "pro-sumer, between the mega-expensive full-frame professional and cheap-o beginner models".

With the 60D Canon has unashamedly moved the X0D range out of the 'semi pro' bracket and instead focused on the enthusiast photographer looking to upgrade from their Rebel. As a result, it's not the obvious continuation of the 30D - 40D - 50D pattern that its naming might suggest. Rather than being a direct upgrade replacement for the 50D, it's perhaps better understood as a 'Super Rebel.'
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» Canon Announces 8-15 f/4L Fisheye Zoom, interesting - a fixed aperature zooming fisheye.     #


Wed: Aug 25, 2010

» Raw Video: 'Fire Tornado' in Brazil. Wow.

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» The Right Way to Answer a Photo Buyer     #


» How to Take a Self Portrait (can we eliminate the "MySpace, hand holding the camera up high aiming down" look now please?)     #


» Ira Glass Likes Excess and Giant M&Ms (love his answer for "How often do you prepare your own meals?".)     #


» Review: 2010 Kona King Kahuna. I keep thinking about buying a new bike sometime (current one is 8 years old now) but I'm just not sure I want to spend the money to replace something that still works... This one is tempting though, sounds like a great bike.     #


» Equipster, a gear-specific sale search engine? Not quite sure how to describe it, basically you tell it what you want to buy and it lets you know when the price is right.     #


» Why Free Plans Don’t Work, a bit on why you should charge membership plans for your web applications.     #


» Dirpy Studio, my new choice for grabbing music from YouTube videos, easy to use and lots of options.     #


» The World Coordinate Converter, if you like playing with map coordinate systems...     #


» Outerbike, demo new rides in Moab from Sept 30 to Oct 3...     #


» Outcry swift after DUI charges against officer dropped. And the police wonder why folks don't respect them? These stories are all too common.     #


» Russia in color, a century ago. Cool technique and very cool photos.     #


» Hundreds Gather To Watch Conifer Landmark Fly Away. Growing up in Bailey and coming down 285 regularly I lost count of the number of times I saw that plane in the barn.     #


» Tiny apartment shows the value of a good fit. That's fantastic, I love that space. Be sure to go through the photo gallery.     #


» CaC - Catch And Convert. Another tool to download online video (YouTube and such) and save it.     #


» Gaming foursquare with 9 lines of Perl. Never used Foursquare (one of many applications I simply don't see the point in) but this is interesting none the less.     #


» Spoofing Facebook – How to use Places to create an alibi     #


» Hope2601 Pt 10, Adam Savage and "The RFID Censorship Question". Interesting, naturally something this insecure should be talked about but once you get the lawyers involved...

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» HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers, a cheat-sheet for HTML5 devs.     #


» Do-Gooders Get Voted Off Island First: People Don't Really Like Unselfish Colleagues, Psychologists Find     #


» The Parent Company Trap. Once again The Daily Show reveals the hypocrisy of Fox News... (And I'm on the side of Team Evil on this one.)     #


Wed: Aug 18, 2010

» Hanging Lake Trail Reopens After Major Repairs     #


» Belkin Conserve Insight, a competitor to the awesome Kill-A-Watt (which I love but have trouble with the screen being located on the plug itself, makes it hard to read sometimes...)     #


» 'Eat Pray Love...' and shop! So you simplify by shopping?     #


Tue: Aug 17, 2010

» The fear tax     #


» Cuba travel ban finally may be lifted. Finally.     #


» Make a Torque Wrench Extension. Fortunately I haven't needed this but it's still interesting, and helpful with the calculators on the page.     #


» Rummaging Around in the Lightroom Database. Easy enough to do since it's just an SQLite database. One thing I was thinking about doing was pulling a list of files from Flickr that I'd uploaded and setting a keyword or flag in the Lightroom database based on that since I haven't been so good about keeping track.     #


» Don't opt in! Ignore your bank's plea to stay in its overdraft program. I was wondering why my bank sent me an email saying I had to "update my preferences to stay with the program" but didn't list any benefits to me for doing so...     #


» Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect. By the Radio Lab guys for Morning Edition on NPR.     #


Mon: Aug 16, 2010

» Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive. A goal to aspire to?     #


» 5th Annual Reel Rock Tour, coming to the Boulder Theater on Sept 16th.     #


» rsync between two local directories (I started using Grsync which wraps a GUI around rsync...)     #


» Using Menu Psychology to Entice Diners. Fascinating.     #


» Workoutz, videos of various workouts.     #


» Nuts, the Great American Beer Festival is already sold out (that's a record according to the website...)     #


» Today's 'Aha!' Airline Chart and Hotel Rewards Cheat Sheet     #


» Last Saturday I thought I'd take a quick spin around Buffalo Creek on my mountain bike (for a couple hours). Turns out it was 4.5 hours and 23.09 miles. That'll teach me to go with Ken the Machine. This means I didn't do anything on Saturday evening besides lay on my couch and try not to drool on myself too much... (On a side note I dig the Garmin Forerunner 305, I love the quality and quantity of data it puts out!)     #


» Love The Earth Film. She's seeking your nature footage if you have any spare.     #


» Saturday Throwback: Save Money on Seasonings - MYOM (Make Your Own Mix)

Listed below are roughly 33 recipes for 21 common seasoning mixes. Also included are five excellent Master Sites, in which you’ll discover dozens more concoctions beyond your wildest, spiciest dreams.
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» Breaking into a Garage in 6 Seconds. My garage door opener uses a slightly different mechanism (and doesn't have windows in any of the panels) so this might be a bit harder but maybe not by much.

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» The Box o Truth. Testing round penetration (how well a bullet actually goes through a material...)     #


» Bonus Video: Words. That is an awesome video, once I got the theme I started trying to guess what they were going for with each scene.     #


» All Hands on Deck: Photographing a kayak in motion. Impressive results (love that top shot) and it looks like quite a challenge to work through...     #


» Landscape and nature images from Saurabh Deoras. Wow, just wow.     #


» Front Range Mountain Bike Patrol - Buffalo Creek Trail Map. Print this if you plan on going, the trail system is a bit confusing at places (and they've apparently added a bunch of trails since I last went, I think around 2002...)     #


» Professor Rescue: Q & A with SAR Statistician Robert Koester     #


» Why cable news never punishes liars. On Fox News they are actively rewarded it appears.     #


» A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind     #


» Endeavour Shuttle Launch. Gorgeous photo.     #


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