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11/30/12

Touchnote - One of my favorite things!

11/30/12
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I love Touchnote. I can send a photo postcard (with my photo on it) from phone or computer anywhere in the world for a dollar. I can snap a shot of a party or something odd with my phone and with only a few clicks have it on its way, with a note, to my children who are scattered about the world.

Touchnote pulls addresses from my phone's contacts (or -- they say -- from one's facebook friends. Haven't tried that.) Or you can enter an address.

The ability to do this amazes me. Touchnote is fun. It is useful. I think it's cheap.

And Touchnote has the best customer service I have experienced in years. I'm told that their executives take turns doing customer service -- which seems to be an excellent way for the folks in charge to keep tabs on what is actually going on between customers and the company they are running.

(Touchnote currently has a bunch of forms available to make custom photo Christmas cards, too.)

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11/09/12

One Reason I Love Fall In Colorado

11/09/12
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Image by Michael Sauers. Some rights reserved.

What we packed for the weekend trip:

  • Bikes (a ride near Glenwood and to get around)
  • Skis (passing my favorite ski area, so why not stop for an hour or so?)
  • Camping gear (should be warm enough, at least the first night)
  • Day packs (hike on Sunday)
  • Camera (because Colorado is stunning)
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11/01/12

How many PhDs Does It Take To Get A PowerPoint Working?

11/01/12
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Cartoon copyright Jorge Cham.

Very familiar and only slightly exaggerated.

From www.phdcomics.com, new strips Monday, Wednesday, & Friday. If you like it, you're in luck, the archive goes back to 1997.

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10/30/12

Riding Backwards

10/30/12
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Deanna Durbin rides her bicycle backwardsMagnify the imageImage from Rides A Bike. Deanna Durbin riding a bicycle backwards.

This is the way I'm living my life recently: no idea where I'm headed and excited about the ride.

(Nice fenders on the bike.)

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10/29/12

Passed By A Toaster? No Problem.

10/29/12
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Passed by Lycra? Never!

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11/02/11

Android Phone v. Ubuntu Computer: 2-0

11/02/11
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Two apps on my phone that I wish I could have on my Ubuntu computers:

  • imo. A multi-protocol chat application that does Skype. Yes, I know Empathy works with Skype, but getting it to work is a mess involving brown chunks and Skype must be running (or something) to actually use it (or something like that.) imo on my phone works quite sweetly.
  • icssync. A bi-directional, syncing .ics calendar app. Sunbird once worked but development is over; it's now a pain to install; and Sunbird was always slow compared to the speedy icssync. Lightning will do it but Lightning is wrapped into Thunderbird which makes Lightning slow to start and clumsier to use.

I guess phones and tablets are the new frontier. Ubuntu and linux are no longer worth the time.

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10/02/11

From Elsewhere

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From the Denver Public Library. Hand-lettered on back of print: "H.B. Ley, T.S. Waud, Cedar Falls Iowa, Weight 5650#, elec. light, running wat, toilet, refrigerator."

  • The RV crazies will always be with us - Heaters/generators/pumps that run all night long bother other people who are not encased in a mobile house.

    If you are going to run noisy stuff all night, go to a friggin RV park or a Walmart parking lot not a public campground. Sheesh.

  • Trip view bowl in Google Earth - The coolest way to show off a souvenir knickknack that I have ever seen.
  • Republicans hate chocolate - Climate change will decimate cocoa production. (Of course, Dems may be believers but they don't care.)

  • What it costs China to screw American workers -

    It is currently costing the Chinese central bank about $240 billion per year to hold down the value of the Chinese currency relative to other currencies. This cost is growing rapidly.
    . . .
    To put this cost in perspective, $240 billion is considerably larger than China’s trade surplus of $183 billion last year. It is about 4 percent of China’s GDP in 2010. Moreover, this cost does not include the implicit tax on the banking system associated with China’s reserve holdings, which is passed on to Chinese households in the form of depressed rates of interest on savings deposits.

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08/21/11

Harper's Magazine

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From Harper's.

I love Harper's. Don't always agree, but the essays often compel me to consider alternate ways of looking at the world. Cheap, too.

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In the dark of the moon, in the flying snow, in the dead of winter,

war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,

I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

-- Wendell Berry

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Edging away from the edge of American space

Links

Riders & Writers

  • Biking Bis

    News and comments about tours, touring, & racing. Good things not seen elsewhere.

  • Commute By Bike

    Many reviews, a DIY project or two, and some fun posts about biking.

  • Cycle-licious

    A great, active blog.

  • FatBoyBiking

    The struggles of a fat guy on his way to middle age and the classic battle of the bulge. Against him, the entire agricultural and food production system, American Midwestern attitudes towards food and eating and a lifetime of sloth and drunkenness. His only weapon, his bike.

  • Freewheeling Spirit

    An exhilarating cycling blog. Formerly the authoritative site for Danish handball news and the bike porn contest (my entry was rejected), Freewheeling is a site I check out ever day.

  • Lovely Bicycle!

    Wonderful writing from a "bicycle obsessionist."

  • Martino's Bike Lane Diary

    Sharp-witted cycling advocacy and photos

  • The Bicycle Story

    Kent Peterson is Issaquah’s Favorite Car-Free, Ultra Long-Distance Racing, Techie-Turned Mechanic

  • Urban Velo

    It's a magazine, newsletter, blog, and the mind boggles to think what else.

  • Urbana-Champaign Bicycle Commute

    Charming, "fresh" writing about biking in University of Illinois Land.

  • Yehuda Moon

    Rick Smith's bikey comic.

Colorado

  • Bicycle Colorado

    Wrapped up effort to get a "share the road" vanity automobile license plate. In February 2008, failed to raise the maximum fine for running over a cyclist while the driver was failing to yield. (Bicycle Colorado was pushing for $1,000. Radical.)

  • Bike Denver

    Positive trajectory in doubt, trending back to ass-kiss mode. Too bad.

  • City of Denver's Bike Program

    Denver shows why it's behind the curve. (I really didn't think this page could get worse . . . Wrong again.)

  • Cycle Analyst

    The most experienced mechanics in town and the most complete collection of tools and parts in the West. No place like it.

  • Denver Critical Mass - YahooGroups

    Last Friday of the month. Meet at Civic Center Park at the Seal Fountain pool between 5:30 and 6:00 pm.

  • Denver Cruiser Ride

    The Denver Cruisers meet at the The Ginn Mill at 2041 Larimer Street every wednesday at 6:30pm, until September 30th.

  • Denver Local

    Adventures in Local Living
    Biking, Walking, and Public Transit in Denver, Colorado

  • Derailer Bicycle Collective

    A free, non-profit, collectively run community bicycle shop on the west side of Denver.

  • Kickstand Magazine

    The world's first and only cruiser magazine has it's home right here in Denver. Aren't we the lucky ones!

  • Rocky Hillside on Google+

    Yep. Sucked into the google whirlpool.

  • The Bike Depot

    A east side (Park Hill) non-profit bike place that encourages folks to build and fix their own bikes and gives them the tools and help to actually do it. Nice dedicated folks who seem to know what they are doing. (As befits a foundation-funded operation, the website description is opaque and baffling, but I've been there and it's a good place.)

  • Track Shack

    Friendly, competent, and cool.

Cycling Advocacy

  • Bicycle Fixation

    A large collection of articles and links on cycling and sustainability.

  • Bike Portland

    To inform and inspire. And it does.

  • C.I.C.L.E.

    (Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange) dynamic site promoting cycling as a viable and sustainable transportation choice.

  • Cycling Cartoons

    "Explaining" cycling in cartoons. Works for me.

  • Driven To Distraction

    The NYTimes series on irresponsible, multitasking drivers.

  • StreetsBlog

    The blog of the New York Streets Renaissance - advocacy in action - and as everyone knows, it happens in NYC first.

  • Time's Up!

    grassroots group that uses direct action and education to push for a sustainable NYC.

  • WashCycle

    Washington Area Bicyclist Association

Writers

  • Gezellig Girl

    Though it's about cooking and food, I love the writing - snappy and downright . . . rollicking. Read this.

  • The Paris Review

    The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers. And its website is a collection of literary curiosities, fiction, and essays.

Tourists

  • A Bikeable Feast

    "I want to learn about sustainable agriculture, as much as I possibly can. . . . I plan to hop on my bike and head north, following the growing season in a giant loop around the country, stopping to learn and work . . . I imagine this will take about a year, maybe longer."

  • A Honeymoon to Remember

    "[They] built the bikes, sold the house, got married, quit a job," and are cycling around Asia. They finished their tour in May 2010.

  • crazyguyonabike

    THE place for cycle tourists. If you are planning, dreaming, or riding a tour . . . .

  • reCycling the World

    David Byrne cycled around in the world in 1975. Now retired, he's doing it again. Why? "I can think of nothing better to do."

  • The Touring Store

    The best, most knowledgeable, compulsive person to talk to about panniers and racks is Wayne. Has any business, internet or brick and mortar, ever know so much and been so helpful about this stuff? His prices are great, too.

Bike Ogling

Japan

Bike Tech

Gardening

  • Front Ranger Gardener

    Gardening in Denver from the staff Horticulturist with the Colorado State University Extension office in Denver. Good stuff.

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