I have not posted on LiveJournal in quite a long time, mostly as an experiment to see if my life would be improved if I neither posted nor read LiveJournal. The clear result is that my mental state and my life are much improved by disengaging from LiveJournal ( Read more... )

And so here we go again with a general report on Operation Running Up That Hill.

First, apropos of nothing, is the Kate Bush lyrics:

"You're like my yo-yo that glowed in the dark
What made it special made it dangerous
So I buried it and forget" --Kate Bush, "Cloudbusting"

Now, howamidoin?

( Training report, cut in case weight is triggery )

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So, I made a rather arrogant remark at one of our apps developers today, but as I often feel like I'm the only voice in the room even trying to reach for the brass ring, I still stand by it. I believe the "feature" we were talking about involved connected home and media streaming within the home.

Apps Guy: "This is just a geek feature. Our ( Read more... )

I want to introduce you to someone. I heard about him on NPR today. His name is Charlie Simpson, and, like me, he is a charity cyclist. His current charity is the UNICEF fund for Haiti ( Read more... )

So, I had some more time to play Star Trek Online. While my initial review was pretty strongly worded, I still stand by much of it. The space flight aspects get slightly easier with time, but only slightly, and I still find it hard to get a proper heading for launching torpedoes ( Read more... )

( Cut to spare my non-gamer friends. )

On Monday, some of the guys from the QA group passed me while I was on my training ride. They're kinda my "office pals," in a way. One of them even spotted that I'm a Subgenius. He had an unfair advantage, since he used to work in the Berkeley radio station where Puzzling Evidence does his show ( Read more... )

On the ride home from work tonight, I crashed my bike ( Read more... )

I'm not going to give a training report every week, but finishing my first week is enough of a milestone to document. I'll start this as I intend to start all of them-- with a wholly unrelated quote from a Kate Bush song.

"But every time it rains, you're here in my head, like the sun coming out. Oh, I just know that something good is going to ( Read more... )