Archive for June, 2008


No ID, Meet Security

This article on TSA’s blog was interesting because I’m finding myself in airports much more often these days. Since Saturday, if you show up at the airport without government-issued ID, you can either submit to additional screening or you won’t be allowed to fly:

We’re 48 hours into the new procedure and things have been smooth [...]

Walk and Lock

In the morning I interviewed JrMint for a GeekFit episode we’re putting out shortly. He was the model interviewee. Aside from a couple questions he just ran with it. We talked about his motivation, what got him started, and what’s going to keep him going after he hits his target weight. Good stuff!
In the afternoon I [...]

Noticed Progress

There’s a particularly awesome trainer at my local Ballys. Her physique reminds me of Demi Moore in 1997’s GI Jane. The sum of our interaction since 2005 has been a wave and a smile and the occasional, “are you still using this?” when she’s training someone out on the weight room floor.
Yesterday I was laying [...]

Weekend Forecast

On the professional front, my computer is up and running again. It turns out at some point I had jostled a power cord and un-jostled it and re-jostled it. My power supply was fine.
On the personal, Ivy and I had decided we (mostly me) were spending way too much eating out. Cutting back to Saturdays has [...]

United Charges for All Checked Bags

This morning I got an email from United announcing their new baggage policy. I’d heard some buzz on the news about this but until now I hadn’t seen any new policy.
By August 18th, the first bag will cost $15 and the second bag will cost $25. Now’s a good time to try and cram as much [...]

Pyoooh

Yesterday my main computer just fell over. I was in the middle of an episode of Smallville and then *pyoooh* everything went black. Power supply, overheated mobo, who knows.
Today my work environment consists of my laptop with a gaming mouse plugged in, and a VGA run to one of my 22” monitors as a secondary [...]

Going National

I talked to the manager at my Ballys and it looks like they have an upgrade path. Basically it’s going to be another 12 month contract, but after the dust settles my monthly charge for national coverage will go to $20. That’ll save me $90/year which will just about cover what I pay for towel service. I’ll [...]

Lunch 2.0 in Pictures

Aaron Hockley paints a beautiful picture with bacon and other photographic goodness over at Another Blogger.

Remember the Milk

It’s been a while since I wrote a review, and I really have to get back on that. There are so many really good bits laying around and unless we write about them, they don’t get any love.
This site has been around for a while, but I’m steadily shocked when people say they’ve never heard [...]

Gym Rockingness

The gym rocked this morning. I got up at 7:30, answered a couple work emails/IMs, and then headed out to the gym. 30m on the treadmill + stretching. I overuse the word “serene” in this bit of audio, but it really was.
( Click to Listen )