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Bunkiesadventure.com 30 countires, 21 months on an 1150GS

G 650 X Challenge

I just ran across one of BMW's next bikes for 2007, (this bike and its 2 brothers are listed under enduro, and 'urban' respectivly. I must say. it looks ALOT like jens XT225. it looks like fun, but I must ask, what are these guys thinking? it better have a price around the XT225 and i'll buy 2, but if its more than the 650GS, forget it.

dynamic DNS

its been a while since i've needed a dynamic DNS host, but next time I need one, I'll get mine from afraid.org

asian cookware

http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ gives some interesting ideas, many passive reflectors which means i don't have to solder anything. i like that idea.

sum

from mathpages.com quotes

I do hate sums.  There is no greater mistake than to call
arithmetic an exact science.  There are hidden laws of number
which it requires a mind like mine to perceive.  For instance,
if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then again from the
top down, the result is always different.
                                 Mrs. La Touche, 19th c.

I think I get this one. I'm so proud of myself.

ok.. a few more. I do so love these

Your manuscript is both good and original.  However, that which
is good is not original, and that which is original is not good.
                                             Samuel Johnson

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the
time to make it shorter.
                                               Blaise Pascal

book binding

one more post before I leave the world wide web of freedom for the night. I clicked on my own advertisement on this blog (cause it looked interesting) and found that lulu.com does book binding! $5 binding fee, .02/page for BW and .15/page for color.

seems WAY REASONABLE compared to what i heard a special someone tell me their thesis cost. yeah.. its not 8.5x11, but it is a book. check it out.

spam central

I'm wondering, why is it that the email address I have on this psuedo-anonymouse blog (k2h.admin) have LESS SPAM than the email address I don't publish? compare the 55 to the ~150 I have in the other account. maybe I clicked delete and forgot or something. this just seems antiintuitive

open office solver

found an open office solver here I'm working on yet another pipe dream model for stock prediction. (think simple linear solve plus asin(wt+b)) it'll never work, but I gotta find someway to make a free dollar.

background check

for my notes, http://adpro.com/ seems to do pretty good background checks.

sarcasm

Mental note: when having a fight with a coworker, NEVER, EVER under any circumstance call the person and leave a message stating you dislike the person. probable outcome will be that the phone is brought in as evidence, the message played to a HR representative, and you will be cited with unprofessional conduct. the result? skip 3 levels of displine, and you find yourself dazed and confused wondering what happened.

better method? have a one on one argument with someone, hash it out. and then its their word against yours. no witnesses (just a little blood if the situation warrants)

is what makes this particularly painful is it happened to one of my best people.

result to business? best person gives 2 week notice.

housing blog

housing-boom.com

two equations

two unknowns
it is to save me 10seconds on homework.

gmini 120

we are prepping for our trip and pulled the Gmini 120 0ut after a prolonged sleep. we fully expected the battery to be completly dead, or worse yet not work at all due to a year of neglect, but it worked perfectly and the battery still had a charge.

should I need to work on this baby later, i'm putting a note to self that more info is available HERE

mastercard?

I got my new corporate credit card (mastercard), called to activate it, and was transferred all over the system until a person finally picked up and said the computer systems were down and they could not activate the card. they then proceeded to ask me if there was anything else they could help me with.

hmmmm....... let me think, your a technology based company, and YOUR COMPUTERS ARE DOWN.... no.. theres nothing you can help me with india.... thankyou.

On The way out

Today I had my 6 month evaluation, as if once a year isn't good enough, they break it down into 6 month intervals now.basically it boils down to the department I work for is black listed and 'officially sucks' as viewed by the upper ups, and everyone that has control over the destinies. I'm viewed as having too many HR problems (either personally, or direct-reports that have HR problems, i'm not sure) and am given a ranking of LEP, least effective performer.in GE lingo, thats you suck and need to find a new job.I'll run limited damage control before the alaska trip, and continue when I get back, but its starting to look like the smog is more appealing.

photography

i found a very good article on basic photography. I keep forgetting to keep an eye out for a very low Fstop lense, just so I can see the difference.

Fin. Management

Woohoo! I get my $600 back! (work reimburses me if I get a B or better) I passed my class that I took this summer. I am now officially 1/3 done with the MBA. THis was the best class i've taken so far and I got to learn how to use a new (to me) style calculator. the HP 10BII financial marvel with 80's technology. I highly recommend ANY class from our fine instructor Sheri F. from UNR. by far the most educated, helpful and entertaining instructor (phd) we'd had thus far. I think she will be a hard one to top and i'm not saying that cause I got an A. I deserved a B, and would have been happy with that. the class was great!

wiki on a stick

wiki on a stick is an AWESOME implentation of wiki! I have been looking for an easy way to create and maintain simple FAQ and HELP pages for my direct reports at work. most people use an archaic system of crappy word .DOCS that look terrible, print terrible, and are horendous to create. I had resigned myself to writing straight HTML and using my less than steller style to put it all together.

I started reading up on wiki. I found out about wiki from wikipiedia.org, an online user generated repository of information. afterall, if you can't find what you want in google, its probably in wikipedia. as I looked around, I found complex database driven wiki's, and thats not what i'm interested in. I want something simple, easy, and fast.

This implementation lives in a single HTML file. the base file is around 50kb. no servers to install and maintain, and nothing to setup. just start clicking and creating. Thanks WIKI on a STICK!!

*note, a similar program,
tiddlywiki may be more feature rich, but seems bloated to me.

troubled employees

My direct reports are extremely troubled. my office door is always open, mainly because I live in a cubicle and don't have one. I was lending an ear for about 6 hours straight today, and finally got to lunch at 3pm. I kid you not.

notes for next weeks staff meeting

handy google search
cnn.com annoying coworkers
usatoday bannanas

hp2 - thunderdome

The other day I did a ride with a few buddies from work and one of them made an observation about the bike, that I feel has been the best complement so far...

"...your bike looks like it came straight out of thunderdome"

if you can't get enough of the movies, try reading some of this to tie you over until you can watch it again.