The KALX Fundraiser for 2006 runs through this Sunday. But don’t wait, call (510) 642-5259 to donate now. Yes, now. Hey, how can you possibly live without a t-shirt displaying an acorn radio lovin’ squirrel? I like the fact that it actually appears to be a hybrid wombat-squirrel.
Whenever we go to San Antonio, we always eat at a Mexican restaurant called Las Palapas near my mother-in-law’s house. This is the back entrance to the restaurant. The sign on the door is a reminder that you’re in Texas. And I’m not talking about the No Smoking sign.
Fortunately, the contents of this box weren’t fragile. It was just some biking and soccer clothes I had ordered. USPS says, “Received in bad condition”, i.e., “Not my bad.”
Less than two months after getting my C2000 back from Capresso, it started misbehaving. The first sign was taking about 5 seconds longer than usual to draw a coffee. Then, I noticed that the expelled espresso pucks had changed from being dry, nearly solid pucks to crumbly globs of wet grounds. Also, less coffee was… Read More »
When you buy new eyeglasses, it’s a good idea to keep around the old pair, especially if you are lucky enough such that the prescription does not change much between the old lenses and the new. It’s always possible that you will take your newest pair in to be adjusted because they no longer sit… Read More »
A friend of mine here in the East Bay had four bikes stolen from his garage recently. If you see any of the following bikes at a too good to be true price, please let Jeff or me know: Moots Compact SL 56cm with Shimano Dura-Ace 10 Habanero Team Issue 56cm with Shimano Dura-Ace 9… Read More »
About six months ago, my Capresso C2000 super automatic espresso machine started having problems. First, the expelled pucks of used coffee grounds were very crumbly and wet, when they had used to be fairly dry and, well, puck-shaped. Then, more coffee went into the coffee grounds disposal box then into my waiting cup. I looked… Read More »
After bicycling about 35 miles through some of the hilliest parts of the East Bay hills, I had a massive craving for pizza. But not takeout. I wanted to maximize the flavor by eating pizza in a restaurant while it was still hot and crispy, preferably accompanied by tasty beer. A friend at work mentioned… Read More »
Hurrican Katrina wasn’t bad for everybody. Super-sized contractors like Bechtel and Halliburton have found the Katrina clean-up work to be a great source of funds to make up for the contracts they lost in Iraq due to overcharging and general incompetence. CorpWatch has a lot of good info (Disaster Profiteering on the Gulf Coast story… Read More »
I haven’t posted anything about Linux in quite a while (half-finished posts on upgrading to FC3 and then to FC4 never made it out the door), but I’ve recently upgraded my laptop and desktop to Fedora Core 5. For the most part, things have gone quite well. The one major exception would be networking. I… Read More »