- I’m OK at American security, but in Germany, my knee hardware earns me an extra screening.
- As automobiles go, the Audi A4 S-line is “just OK”.
- The 2 second tailgating rule seems like about 1/4 mile when you’re going 200kph.
- Watch out for “residents only” parking zones.
- The Germans are anal about their rental cars. It took two agents about 5 minutes to determine that a tiny scuff would buff out. By tiny, I mean I’d have taken a picture, but I couldn’t even tell what they were looking at.
- Navigation systems are like cheating.
- Lufthansa wins back points with flight checkin at the train station.
- Münster is super bike friendy.
This video is incredibly long (thanks YouTube!); around 1:00 you will see us ride past all the cars at a green light for bikes only. - Lots of bratwurst is consumed…
- … after preparation by a düde with mad skillz with the tongs.
- While tasty, eating meat at nearly every meal can be digestively challenging.
- It’s not just in Amsterdam that they put mayonnaise on fries.
- The days are short, and the sun barely gets above the horizon at 52° north. Long shadows at noon.
- 11 oz bottles of 4.8% beer at sea level make you feel like some sort of drinking hero (or an alcoholic).
Germany: Lessons Learned
January 7th, 2009
Hate the iGoogle left-side navigation?
December 12th, 2008Hate that it takes up screen real estate for no reason? Find Gmail canvas view as unusable as I do?
Check out all that unused grey space:
The last straw for me today was to discover that they put chat in the navigation bar, and it was impossible to turn off. I found a groups forum thread where I could actually register my discontent, and found this little gem:
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=all
Add that “?hl=all” to the end of the URL, and hooray! Tabs on top again!
Boulder’s first snow
December 5th, 2008I don’t have parking, so it’s easier to ride than drive, and I’ll say it’s true even today.
Still, I’m happy it’s not long way.
It was mighty pretty if you look up though:
Casey has a much longer ride, but he’s a transplant from Minnesota:
The Indignity of a Commuting Bicycle
November 13th, 2008BSNYC often writes about “The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle“.
There’s a correlary; The Indignity of a Commuting Bicycle. First Dean gets a younger, bigger brother:
And now this:
Fenders, lights and flats (and a broken waterbottle cage too). It’s enough to make a sensitive bicycle weep from embarrassment.
Nevermind
October 28th, 2008It turns out Sonos has an official iPhone controller app in the iTunes store:
Sigh… I guess I won’t bother to write up perl dependency hell after all.
Some things you do just because you can
October 24th, 2008Need another Sonos controller?
Hack together openlink, perl, sonosweb and iphone sonos:
I had to go through Perl dependency hell (Perl really is an abomination) to get sonosweb working on the linkstation, but it works pretty well now.
Throw in a little DD-WRT and ssh and you can really mess with your S.O. by changing the music at home from the office.
Now I need to write up how I got through the seven circles of dependency hell before I forget. It took more than a quarter to Charon.
Le Google Vue de Rue
October 15th, 2008I got all excited about Google Street View expanding coverage in France. Sadly, despite massive coverage of Paris, Rue Louis-David is not included. About the closest you can get to our old apartment is this:
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It’s the building you can see just above the “do not enter” sign.
Everybody talks about the first 100 days
October 8th, 2008What about the last 100 days?
As excited as I am for this to be over (who’s havin’ a party?) I’m also pretty nervous, given the ridiculous shit presidents do with their last few months in office.
Internet Meme Timeline
September 20th, 2008Click on through to the original site for best effect.
Not sure what’s going on with the random photos, but it’s a cool visualization of “history”. And it helpfully catches me up on the many things I’ve missed.
What’s wrong with this picture?
September 17th, 2008
Wonder how those rim brakes are working out on a disc only rim…
