My Raspberry Pi So Far.
Another year, another failure. I bought the Raspberry Pi. Sometime between the entry of credit card details and the ripping open of a cardboard box, a project presented itself. I will mine Dogecoins. 30 years from now my children will ask what Bitcoin was, and I'll be...
A Bike Polo Tournament
Vic Winter Mixer 2013 If you play bike polo, you have to have a tournament once in a while. We were talking about it since Jawn Fawn put one on in spring, in Nanaimo. Around October Ryan started getting serious about doing it. I got put in charge the usual way - no...
E-Z Bake
Do you miss your Easy-Bake oven? Me too, man. I was always more of a scientist running food-related experiments than a master chef, but still. Here's what we're gonna do. Get a lot of different kinds of cheeses, just go ahead and spend your whole tax return and get...
Goals Suck
I hate goals. I have a million of them. An application that does bicycle related math. Fixing the oil leak in my car... making rideable and selling one or more of the busted bikes in my house. Lots and lots of blog posts that I thought about, then got self conscious,...
This is an Apollo Criterium
Before today, it was impossible to Google the phrase 'apollo criterium' and get useful results. I am the change I want to see in the world. This is a 10-speed road bike from the 70s or 80s. I think it was moderately high end, based on its weight and geometry...
Getting Your First Job After Graduation
I arrived at Malcolm's house in Sunnyvale, California, by bike, in early March 2011. I had a bad cough and was saddle-sore from riding down from San Francisco on bumpy residential roads (I didn't know about the bike route at the time). He made dinner, cracked a bottle...
Living some stories
Life is lived through the stories you tell. As much fun as it is to wake up in a foreign house in Langford and spend the day trying to figure out how to get home, it's more fun to tell the story later, preferably in the middle of an even worse adventure. I've been out...
On being a one-armed coder
To pay the rent while looking for a job in programming, I took a job washing cars. It's easy work and I'm good at it, but on the third day I broke my elbow. It happened at bike polo that night. After colliding with 2 guys in a scrum and hitting the ground pretty hard,...
Repairing an 87 Toyota Tercel Window
I got this wagon last week. It's rad. Come for a ride in it and I'll bore you to death talking about the fuel efficiency (I'm excited). One small problem though, the passenger side window didn't work. When I bought it the guy basically told me never to touch it....