willy-nilly

tahoe mtb

many thanks to erik and richie for a killer ride on saturday. at erik’s request I won’t be posting the map of the ride, but it did contain sections of western states, over the bars and missing link over 18 miles of riding and 3687 feet of climbing. thank goodness for the 7-11 at the end. I’ve never eaten a banana so fast in my life.

jerry is yahoo’s ceo

I’m fired up, not at losing terry, but at gaining jerry. bradley horowitz put it well in his recent post.

nick walked!

back side of china camp

this rivals soquel in terms of smiles per miles driven. thanks erik!

macky goodness

I just moved to a mac at work. it’s different. this post is getting written in textmate (posted through their nifty blogging bundle) and I’ve been getting up to speed on quicksilver (which has a cool flickr uploading plugin) and other stuff that has heretofore been the domain of the cool kids. It’s striking to see how different the Apple Mail app is from Entourage. getting Mac stuff to work right with Exchange is tricky, but it’s somewhat fun because the software and physical feel of this machine is so much nicer than my old HP/Compaq thingy. it crashes less and has fewer weird CPU spikes. I miss Excel keyboard shortcuts (tho perhaps some Quicksilver stuff could replace them over time) but sw like OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner is ridiculously cool. Applescript to convert Outliner stuff to Twiki is icing on the cake, given how much we use twiki at work.

nick motoring around the house

friday the 13th mtb happy hour

arrived at 6:15, started riding at 6:30, back to the car by 7:50 with a tiny bit of twilight remaining. any later and you’d want a headlamp. bonus: wildflowers galore. also, thanks to Dirk for posting photos and a link about the crash of the DC-6 “Resolution,” for which my favorite skegg’s trail is named.

bubble wubble

easter mountain bike ride

beautiful easter sunday weather (65 and sunny) with wildflowers out in force. bees were swarming up at the heli pad and a very large wild turkey paid a visit near the top of braille. I got a flat near the bottom of braille and realized what a difference fully-inflated tires make when ascending hardpack fire road. first outing with the new garmin edge 305. what a fun toy.

nick’s bite at the apple

happy first birthday nick!