http://katsden.5100bac.net The World's Most Pointless 'Blog Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:38:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, it's been a long, hot summer. Not just because of rising temperatures due to the planet's axial tilt and an ongoing drought in the southeast- no, because it's election year. Now, normally I'm a pretty apolitical person. I vote for who I think will do the best job, rather than ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2008/08/the-wasted-vote/ Farkles- the little bits and pieces you add on to a bike. Or so the term seems to be around the sport-touring community, I've found. Started with the electrical support for other bits and pieces- TomTom Rider 2 GPS, iPod. Ran wires from the battery to a Bluesea fusebox under ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2008/06/farkeling-begins/ We'll just ignore the date of my last post. In the early '90s, when the bikes I rode were all used '80s Universal Japanese Motorcycles, Yamaha was producing a "sport touring" bike called the FJ1200. Sport tourers are comfortable, long distance touring bikes that still retain the power and handling of ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2008/04/vroom/ And thus, we bid adieu to another year. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. I guess I can't complain. '07 wasn't that bad for me. There were highly annoying boss issues, co-workers getting arrested issues, still being single at age 37 issues... but I've ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2007/12/2007-so-long-sucker/ Did I say two months down there? I meant three months, apparently. Don't worry, I've been busy, not lazy. Well, OK, mostly lazy. But there has been a lot going on. For one, I underestimated the amount of equity I had in the house... by quite a bit. I swallowed ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2007/11/yeah-i-suck/ Wow, two months since an update. Ahem. The garden has been cleaned, tilled, re-bordered, and planted. I even got the borders around the house done halfway. Ian and his girlfriend have split, meaning the bills and mortgage have gone up, now that they're split two ways rather than three. (However, the ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2007/08/lazy-bastard/ Upgraded WordPress to 2.2, a fairly painless process once again. Kudos to them for making upgrading, normally a tedious nightmare on things like forums, easy and simple. Enjoying the first non-busy weekend in quite a while- between Citizen's Academy, classes I had scheduled to teach, detail stripping and repairing department ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2007/05/upgrades-and-tirades/ I've been a PC user- and, almost by default, a Windows user- for the past 20 years. While my first machine was a Radio Shack Color Computer II, my first PC was a Leading Edge 286. I had used 8088 IBM PC's at school, but the 286 was the first ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2007/03/goodbye-business-suit-hello-bohemian/ Flipping channels a few minutes ago, and the writhing video montage came to rest on a re-run of Cops. Two southern (by the accents) officers listening politely to a disheveled man rambling on about how much he loves snakes; how much he cares far more for them than any human. ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2007/01/stupidity-hurts/ "People" in the singular, I've found, aren't too bad. "People" as a group, however, constantly amaze me with the depths of ridiculousness they achieve. As a small example, there's the snow scares every year here. This is Georgia; if we even get any snow in a year, it's perhaps an ... http://katsden.5100bac.net/2006/11/people-still-amaze-me/