Monthly Archives: January 2009

New Bike

I bought it.

Yesterday during lunch, I went over to Montlake Cycle to test ride the 2009 Cannondale Synapse Carbon 5. While it was a nice bike and the staff was superhelpful there, the bike just didn’t seem to fit me or feel as nice as the Roubaix. For starters, the geometry of the Cannondale was [...]

Puerto Vallarta: Day 1

After a pretty easy, non-stop direct flight (in first class!), Robert and I arrived in Puerto Vallarta. We got settled in our rental condo, got Mexican money from the ATM, bought 3 cases of beer (which has heavy but we carried it back to the condo), spent some time at the Blue Chairs watching strippers [...]

Fridge is stocked

Robert, Ken and I carried 3 cases of Pacifico up the hill.

View from the condo in Puerto Vallarta

View from the condo in Puerto Vallarta

Windows 7 Beta

Tonight, I decided to try to install the Windows 7 Beta on my Mac under VMWare Fusion. It installed without incident and took a surprisingly small amount of time.
Things I’ve noticed so far:

It’s pretty snappy even under virtualization and with only 512 MB of RAM
It only seems to take up about 5GB of disk space
Oooh, [...]

Bikes on the Brain

On Sunday, Justin and I went shopping for a bike for him. He looked at and test rode several nice ones at Gregg’s, Montlake and Recycled.
We started at Montlake where he rode 3 different bikes while I wandered around the store. The place was pretty empty, which probably helped us get some great service from [...]

Christmas Booty

Christmas Booty

Originally uploaded by decidedlyodd

UPS just delivered the box of the stuff I got for Christmas. Easiest piece of luggage I ever dealt with!