The Indignity of a Commuting Bicycle

November 13th, 2008

BSNYC 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, 2008

It 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, 2008

Need 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, 2008

I 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, 2008

What 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.