Just a quick little note to commemorate my rolling over 300 riding miles on a bike this summer. No reason, other than I’m rather proud of myself for the accomplishment, and am looking to keep the counter ticking upwards. Yay me.

Not been a good week in terms of working conditions. The air conditioning system in my part of the office has been out of commission all week, and it’s been hotter and more humid inside than out all week. There’s definitely something wrong when going outside into the 100+° with the heat index Virginia summer […]

We started Saturday with a nice family bike ride to the local farmer’s market to pick up some fresh vegetables – eggplant, sweet corn, basil, and a couple of other bits. Led to some good meals for the weekend, though next time, with the eggplant, i’m going to season italian, but cook asian. A little […]

According to Sony at E3, it appears that we PS3 owners will finally be able to get our hands on Gran Turismo 5 on November 2, 2010. Of course, there have been release dates before, and they’ve come and gone. I’m hoping this one sticks. Prologue felt half finished, and while I had lots of […]

Not a terrible weekend; took an extra day, got a bunch of stuff done a day early, which was nice, because of all the end-of-year Girl Scout activites going on. Also, thanks to the newly-arrived car bike rack, we got a few good hours of trail riding in at the local park. Very nice. Saw […]

Author Jeremy Robinson in his piece at io9 dealing with conflicting feelings about the resurgence of 80s pop culture treasures in modern media really hits on a common truth for many of us of a certain geeky vintage. GI:JOE. Transformers. Battlestar Galactica. V. The A-Team. Voltron. Thundercats. The Smurfs. It’s everywhere. Everything old is new […]

Came back from DC a day early because someone else needed to; I’ll never pass up an opportunity to sleep in my own bed another night (I have more hotel points than I’ll possibly ever need…). …And, it turned out Coulton and Paul and Storm were in town…my town (or, you know, the closest major […]

‘Twas a busy, yet thorougly entertaining weekend… After jetting home (in a rolling, plodding sort of way on I-95) on Friday afternoon, Colleen and I slipped out for a couple of hours by ourselves to grab dinner and catch a movie – kabobs at a great local joint and a screening of Babies at the […]

Usually, when I’m present at a ball game, those in attendance are treated to a pitcher’s duel; many strike-outs, the occasional pop fly, three up, three down, rinse, repeat. Last Night at Nationals Park was, thankfully, a little different than the norm. Last season, I went to six games, and was present for one home […]

I really don’t have much comment – the little stuff I usually put here has been creeping into the blog proper this week. It’s been a week. My biggest complaint is that the Hurt Locker Blu-Ray netflix sent apparently doesn’t play in my PS3; not sure if it’s a mastering issue or that little sticker […]