Category Archives: Life

Unfreakingbelieveable: I broke my bike (again)

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Trick

So I’m in Orange County, CA visiting my sister this weekend, and have gone to some length to get my bike out here. So what happens? I demolished my chain within 60 seconds of our first ride. In all my … Continue reading →

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Bye Bye Truckers

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Trick

So I finally got rid of my truck, which was sad. However I did something good with it — rather than going thru the hassle of trying to sell it, I donated it using donateacar.com which is a non-profit which … Continue reading →

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New camera (look, a sandwich!)

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Trick

Go ahead, laugh.  I know it’s funny that I somehow managed to break my old camera while making dinner.  What can I say.  I like to take pictures of things that I cook.  It just seems that it’s a bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Life, Nifty, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Lesson in Programming: Why those /* (funny) */ comments are so important

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Trick

At work we always marvel about the comments we come across in our code. Indiana Jones stories that somehow get related back to the code by it, how tired the programmer was when writing the code, indications of the [lack … Continue reading →

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Storm carnage…

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Trick

So I finally got my power turned back on tonight a bit after 6:00…have been without since Thursday afternoon.  Only really frustrating part was throwing out a lot of good food.  Hardest part was trying to figure out what to … Continue reading →

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Can I possibly destroy any more hardware?

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Trick

In the last 30 days, I’ve killed so much hardware it’s not even funny anymore. Zen Micro died today. After my first look it was grim. Put it back together tonight and surprisingly enough, it actually partially works. I even … Continue reading →

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Death to the Zen Micro

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Trick

So yesterday I was quite convinced that I was going to make it down to see the Chicago Air and Water Show, hoping I could see the Thunderbirds.  Well lets just say that we got water alright.  I stood out … Continue reading →

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paris et le tour!

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Trick

So as a part of me taking a crazy vacation, I made it to Paris (for a whopping 24 hours) with one goal: The Tour de France! Photos to make anyone who wasn’t there jealous:

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Going to Paris!

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Trick

This is mostly to brag to my siblings, if they haven’t heard yet… I will be taking the Eurostar train from London on the 28th down to Paris, France.  Will stay the night, and then the next morning get up … Continue reading →

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GUADEC Warmup Day 2

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

So I arrived in London around 6 AM; everything went quickly.  Plane ride was fun, albeit quite cozy. Took the paddington express train, which is super slick, jumped on the underground to Euston, and wandered around for a while until … Continue reading →

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