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What I did this rainy weekend
Installed a dishwasher. The dishwasher that came with the house had a habit of peeing rusty water on the floor; our new Kenmore has been sitting in the garage for weeks waiting for inspiration. Which struck on a rainy Saturday morning; Kate watched the baby and I lay on the floor and cursed and groaned…
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What, it has to be done simultaneously?
Larry sent some last pictures of the Velorex sidecar before it begins its truck journey from Oregon to the still-smoldering plains of waterfront Philly. As well as some cryptic advice: > …A couple more things to keep in mind. If you are going get the car out of > the crate before taking it home,…
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It’s one of those days on Amtrak
It’s one of those days on Amtrak: oddities abound, and the common theme is, well… I’m not sure, but I bet the French have a word for it. Presented for your consideration: There’s an old high-school classmate of mine sitting in the seat across the way. At least, I think he’s an old high-school classmate.…
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U-Haul trucks aren’t very post-apocalyptic.
My fellow BMW Airhead rider Larry in Bend, Oregon, has made final plans for shipping the Velorex sidecar. It’ll be arriving via USF Holland to an intriguingly blank area of Google Maps down by the docks in Philadelphia. If this were Grand Theft Auto 3, you would know to bring a bazooka when traveling down…
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Velorex 652 sidecar
This AWESOME-looking Velorex 562 sidecar soon will be mine (assuming all goes as well as it has so far.) I’m buying it from an incredibly nice, extraordinarily careful fellow named Larry in Bend, Oregon. Oh, man, I’m excited.
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On the Lower East Side, coolness used to be measured by how well you knew Dechen.
Kate and I watched “I Heart Huckabees” this weekend, which I found myself really liking. Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman play existential detectives, hired by flailing environmental activist Albert Markovski to explain a series of odd coincidences in his life. The movie quickly becomes a contest between the integrative, “everything is connected” school of existential…
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Veni, Vidi, Vinca minor
I came home from a two-day business trip to Phoenix on Wednesday night to find that Kate and her mom had edged a large flowerbed in the front of the house. This is great news. I love edged flowerbeds because I love mulch. I’m not being ironic in any way, here: I freaking LOVE to…
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GDI beta report: “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”.
The weather was unbelievably gorgeous on Saturday — better than I could have hoped for. An army* of intrepid beta-testers for the Guerilla Drive-In arrived, prepared to go to any extreme to work the kinks out of the hardware. Fortunately, the extreme turned out to be nothing worse than a chilly evening and a shortage…
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Guerilla Drive-In almost ready to roll
I got my box of parts from John at KMR electronics, and proceeded to thread up the first reel of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which arrived on Monday from Swank in Chicago. As it turns out, my Eiki RT-0 classroom projector, purchased on eBay, had more wrong with it than first appeared. However, I fixed…
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“Simple as dirt.” Color-coded Teutonic electro-dirt, that is.
See photo on Flickr. After a year under a tarp in a driveway, my 1977 BMW motorcycle is (very Germanically) requiring me to prove my dedication before permitting me to ride to the train station in the morning. Now that the brakes are sorted, the headlight is acting odd. There are two switches that drive…
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