I heard tonight that a close friend of mine has cancer. It hasn’t sunk in entirely yet, but I’m thinking good thoughts for her.

This morning TechCrunch released an article about Provigil (modafinil). I remember talking to Jason Tucker about this a few years ago when they were doing the first trials of the drug. Basically it allows the person taking it to stay awake and alert for up to 88 hours. They had tested this on pilots who had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

There are a lot of trails around Vancouver. I didn’t realize how many until I started going through the Vancouver-Clark Washington Parks & Recreation site. Whew, what a mouthful.
The original idea when I set out with Ivy tonight was to head over to one of the nearby trails and walk to the end, turn around, [...]