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12-03-2007 Fall Sailing and Bicycling in Florida

Boats, bikes, and delicious bullsharks

11-15-2007 Monohull Sailing at the St. Pete Sailing Center

 

9-7-2007 The Shiitake Complex

 

8-30-2007 Outline Format of Miss South Carolina's Speech

In a vain attempt to better visualize her points, I put them into outline form. Here are the results.

7-17-2007 My Favorite Software

I want to pay homage here to software that gets the job done for me. Most of it is open source. Asterisks indicate the source is closed, to my knowledge.

7-11-2007 Migrating from Treo 650 to 680 on Debian Linux

Palm is by far the PDA best supported on Linux. That's why I use it, versus something retarded like an overpriced iPhone. Linux + Treo 680 > iPhone + OSX, especially in light of http://tinyurl.com/39dlln . It was all very easy, except one gotcha made my life difficult...

7-8-2007 Ruminations the day after

Yesterday wasn't the luckiest day of the Century, as the Chinese purport. Actually, all I got was a finance charge.

7-4-2007 Yay! Happy 4th of July!

 

12-7-07 Art Basel 2007

Another visit to South Florida in search of art

6-23-2007 Wisconsin Road Trip!!!!!

The sordid details...

4-15-2007 Debian Etch Review

A wonderful coauthored review of the latest release of this wonderful Linux distribution. It even features an endorsement by Wilford Brimley!

4-11-2007 Jeff Chicken

I believe in reincarnation!

12-13-2007 Bottle Brush Tree Invaded My Deck!

From low maintenance backyard to high maintenance wasp haven.

1-1-2008 Let's All Embark on a Gigantic Lee Majors Cavalcade!

The time is rife for the revival.

1-8-2008 And the Plot Thickens

Some interesting dialog in my irc chat room of choice.

1-12-2008 The Flouring

It is a Jamaican tradition to "flour" someone on their birthday. So we did.

2-11-2008 Janus Ultimate Frisbee Tournament in Tampa

I played Sat/Sun with a great team from the Ft. Lauderdale area named Pompeii's Children.

2-1-2008 A Brewpub in St. Petersburg?

Can we sustain something like the Dunedin Brewery in our neck of the woods, err beach?

2-4-2008 The Circus Has Come to Town: Termite Tenting

We finally got it done. Our house looks like a blue and white Bavarian beer garden tent.

3-10-2008 Pygmy Horriblis

We bought a massive pygmy date palm for a price we couldn't refuse. But the full price had not yet been paid.

3-16-2008 I Strongly Dislike Apple

It's been building for a long while, but now I feel compelled to make it fully public.

4-5-2008 AAPLE Amnesia

So, in the latest of ridiculous events surrounding this particular company, AAPL is contesting New York City's right to be The Big Apple.

5-1-2008 Link to Cable Trellis Project Story

I posted a story about my recently finished cable trellis project.

6-2-2008 Lemon Grass Mosquito Repellent

I was told mosquitos are repelled by planting lemon grass.

6-3-2008 Have A Revival In the Comfort of Your Own Home!

I love living in the South. This guy will come to your house and, using a hand puppet named Homer, bring you to JESUS!

6-10-2008 Post-its and Electronic Receipts

I read an advertisement extolling the brilliance of the Post-it Note

6-20-2008 Rays Stadium -> Athletic Complex

So the erstwhile Devil Rays want a new stadium. Boo hoo: no.

7-5-2008 Two Mockingbirds Making Sense of It

I'm really fond of the mockingbirds that live amongst me.

7-10-2008 Halong Bay

We went to a new Vietnamese restaurant in St. Petersburg this past weekend. Here's a review.

7-27-2008 Digital/HD TV Antenna

New story on building an antenna mount for digital TV.

Digital Car Audio

I UPGRAYYEDED my system.