Greased Melon

Vista went on sale yesterday. Here’s Bill Gates on CNN at an awkward moment.

Yesterday morning–Kansas Day–the route map for this summer’s Bike Across Kansas was released. I didn’t care about the map…I went right for the I’M IN button.
IIIIIIIN HAAAAAAALE. Ahhh…cool, damp morning air…cloud-scattered sunrise…early June wheat fields glimmering as the wind makes waves across them…14 year-olds swerving the 5-ton wheat trucks across the highways……
There’s […]

I read that question on Warren T’s blog. I started to enter a comment to respond, but it got too long. Here are my thoughts.
Two Things
In my mind, there are two areas to work on: Making the bike trip safe and convincing one that they can indeed safely and efficiently ride a bicycle […]

I’m hooked: BBC’s Radio1
I have Sirius satellite radio and listen to channel 11 most of the time–a time-delayed broadcast from the UK. I really like the morning show. They’re funny, fairly smart, blunt, and funny.
The UK is now riveted to 24 (not sure which season). Chris and Dave are doing their […]

Chip out the frozen earwax and listen to our friend Lewis Black.
The Coldest Winter EVER
In other news, my brother in Portland, Oregon said they got some snow. Portland doesn’t usually get snow. So everyone is freaking out. Rightly so–they have hills there. Observe what happens to cars on said hills with […]

That’s a line from Dan Conner on Roseanne.
KC ended up with 3 or so inches of ice, sleet, and non-categorizable frozen precipitation starting early Friday. And then today the bottom dropped out on the thermometer–it’s currently 12 degrees at lunch time and we hit our high earlier this morning. After not touching my […]

Steve Jobs takes the stage for the 2007 MacWorld Keynote address in about an hour and 40 minutes.
At some point today, the Cordish Company is going to announce a few tenants for the Power and Light District downtown.
I should have skipped my coffee.
Btw, when (not if) I’m missing later, I can be found in a […]