Monthly Archive for April, 2004

Pre Gotham Rally

gothampatch.jpgTomor­row, we get out of work a little early, and load into the Saab for a trip down to NYC for the Gotham Scooter Rally. From every­thing we’ve heard, Brook­lyn will be burn­ing by sunday night.

Pres­ley and I are rel­a­tively new scooter­ists, and this is our first rally. Jason and Kim of course are respon­si­ble for this… so a spe­cial thanks to them for all their help get­ting Lisa’s ’63 Lam­bretta Li125 on the road. If all goes well, next week I’ll be riding a 25-year old Vespa p200… sadly I won’t have it for Gotham, but I’m psy­ched, nonetheless.

Sooooo, look out NYC. Can’t wait to see you Kunta, Renee, Jenna, and the rest of you Yankee-​liking swine.

April 29, 2004 » Tags: , . » 2 Comments

Terminal blog

I stum­bled upon an inter­est­ing blog design in my refer­rals — klypso.com. Paul used “Terminal” for his blog’s type­face. It’s quick-​loading, lean-and-mean, but Paul chose to forgo the CSS trend, and build it with old-​fashioned Tables.

As soon as I saw it, I had a flash­back to col­lege and X-Windows, Lynx, Emacs… And then back to high school and 9600-baud con­nec­tions to BBSs. We’ve come a long way, no?

April 20, 2004 » Tags: , . » 2 Comments

My Powerbook is on vacation

Forgive the silly title — I had to send my 12-inch PB away to Ten­nessee (or wher­ever Apple does their heavy tech sup­port), because the slot-​load drive was lock­ing up.

So this is my first Apple hard­ware issue…

In 4+ years with my Dell, the only hard­ware issue I ever had was my Dell Trini­tron mon­i­tor (which went bad at 2 years, 11 months).

Is this an indi­ca­tion of what I can expect in the future?

April 6, 2004 » Tags: . » 12 Comments