Sunday, October 08, 2006

Movie Review: MirrorMask

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Written by Neil Gaiman, and directed and created by artist Dave McKean, this is the story of Helena Campbell, a girl whose parents run a cir...

San Jose Rock & Roll Half Marathon

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1:56:19 That's my time for the 1/2 marathon. I actually started with the 2 hours 15 minute group thinking I'll have a hard time kee...

Fall bike parts inventory

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2 Front Phil Wood 36 wheels 2 Rear Phil Wood Freewheel 36 spoke wheels 1 Tandem 48 spoke front Phil 1 Tandem 48 spoke rear Phil (Freehub) 1 ...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

Review: The Polysyllabic Spree

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This book by Nick Hornby is basically a collection of his monthly column about books from The Believer . The column illustrates why Hornby g...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Neil Gaiman Talk @Google

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My second time attending an Authors@Google talk. He was at Google to give a short signing/reading tour (more reading than signing, as he p...
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Pigeon Point 2006

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Pigeon Point 2006 Sep 30, 2006 - 71 Photos This year's pigeon point run was a lot of fun. Thanks to Lisa's contacts, we managed to g...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Are human lives too short?

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This idea came to me while we were having dinner during our Coast to Coast walk . Human beings live for too short a time. As a result, we ar...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Review: Smallville Season Two

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My big criticism of Season One was that it felt very much like the monster of the week. There was relatively little plot continuity, and wh...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Wheelbuilding with the Park TS-2

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I had a sinus infection (on my birthday, no less!), so no riding this weekend. But thanks to my brothers and Lisa, I got a Park Truing Stand...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Guest Poster

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My brother is now guest posting on this blog with movie reviews, etc, so if you see sudden changes in tone check the posted by line. Welcom...

A Moment With You movie Review

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I watched the Google screening of this yesterday. My initial reasons to watch this was that it had a really cool poster, paper airplanes es...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

S&S couplers revisited

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In the year and a half since I wrote the article, S&S couplers considered harmful , I've really been vindicated. One of my co-worker...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Time to plug the gtags internship again

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Those of you who've read my blog before will note that I was looking for an intern for gtags a while ago. Well, my blog doesn't get ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Review: Smallville Season One

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One of the best things about the TV format for a series is that you can really take your time to explore the subject. In this particular cas...

My 15 Minutes of Fame

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Piaw Na, another engineer, stopped by to browse. He bikes to work from his home in Sunnyvale and can never make it to the library before it ...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Lisa shot this image while descending the cables...

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As you can see, the descent was quite steep! 

At the foot of the cables at Half-Dome

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A far cry from last year's image . The difference? This year's image was taken at 6:30am on a Sunday. 

Piaw & Lisa Enjoy the Sunrise on Half-Dome

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Rainbow at the Foot of Vernal Falls

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Economist does an about face

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The Economist used to be a climate skeptic, gleefully publishing article after article claiming that of all the good things you can do with ...