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Grace's Montlake T-ball schedule
Here’s Grace’s T-ball schedule for Montlake: | Date | Time | Opponent |Field| | June 17th|5:15pm|Stingers Jorrit Van der Meulen |5 | | June 24th |5:15pm|South Park Carmen Martinez |6 | | July 1st |5:15pm|Mighty Mice John McHale | 4 | |July 8th |5:15pm|South Park Carmen Martinez | 6 | | July 15th |5:15pm|Cougars Sean…
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35mm Film Processing Labs
Well since I haven’t switched to digital for yet, I’ve got 10 rolls of film that need to get developed from our trip to Alaska. Makes it worthwhile figuring out the right way to develop them. Finding a great lab, then getting the pictures developed with a good contact sheet seems smart. Then, I can…
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Marine VHF Radios
Chuck Husick on boatus.com. Darn it, the basic marine radio I bought I think I left on the boat while docked and it seems to have walked away. A good chance to get a pair that are good. Thank goodness for basic guides on the Internet. * Things you want are Receiver sensitivity. Most provide…
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Giant TCR Advanced
Jan Ulrich’s Bike. This is a Giant TCR Advanced with an integrated seat tube so you don’t actually need a seatpost or clamp. That makes it just 900 grams and you save 125 grams on the seat post and clamp. Wow.
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Backpacking gear
BackpackGearTest.org – Clothing. Just spent a great week in Alaska. More on that later. But one thing Ilearned is that you need the right kind of gear really matters. ONly used 10% of what we brought, but the right stuff if important. Less is more. Some good reviews of stuff here.
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Lance looks strong and Bike lust continues
Jen Voight’s Cervelo. Now stock bikes are easily less than 15 lbs. Here’s how: * Cervelo R2.5 frame. Now is 200 grams lighter than 2003 and is now 1000 grams if you can believe it. * FSA carbon cranks. Superlight and strong. Also FSA carbon fiber seatposts, headsets, OS115 stem, 7050 bars. * Dura-Ace 10-speed…
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Biking Identification
MILITARY STYLE SPORTS ID. No, not for your bike silly, its id you might want to carry if you are riding and get hurt. How many of us travel with ID (actually, I keep a business card, credit card, $20 and proof of insurance in my backpack, but I’m a nerd đ Here’s a $8…
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US Postal in 2004 becomes Discovery 2005
:: Discovery to sponsor Lance’s team. I’m sure the US Postal service was amazed that they got Lance to sponsor. Kind of too bad, they could never take advantage. The big boys are moving in though, next year, the Discovery Channel is sponsoring Lance. BTW if you are wondering if there is a God, check…
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Dual Layer DVD Burners are here
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Lite-On, LG and BenQ Bring 8.5-GB Recordable DVDs to the Party – 16x: The Final Destination?. At last the DVD burner market is maturing. The DVD+RW and DVD+R format seems to be the winner. Both can go to 9GB on a single side and to 16x (that’s 10,000 rpm folks…
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External Hard Drive Reviews
X-bit labs – Articles – Three External Hard Disk Drives with 120GB Storage Capacity (page 8). Well these USB 2.0 drives will never be as fast as IDE drives, but it isn’t bad. The WD1200JB stuffed into an external enclosure for $200 vs. $80 if it comes as a internal drive, so there is a…
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Tour de France Diaries
How do these guys have time to do it. Here are a collection of daily rider diaries from folks actually on the TdF: * “Tyler Hamilton et al”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/. Velonews has Tyler Hamilton blogging away. * Floyd Landis. Of US Postal fame. * “Paolo Bettini”:http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/features/diaries/paolo.php?id=paolo0411. The Quck.Step-Davitamon rider. * “Chris Carmichael”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/carmicha/ and “OLN Version”: . He’s…
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Bike Lust
After a few years of relative stability, the new bikes are pretty amazingly cool. Here are some highlights for lusting: * Giant get lighter with TCR Advanced. These are super popular frames from Taiwan. The new TCR Advanced has a new seat tube design that eliminates the need for seat post. It just clamps to…
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Linksys Network Storage Link
Product Review. A very clever product from Linksys. This is basically a small computer that takes USB 2.0 drives, runs Linux on an Intel Network processor and comes out on TCP/IP as a SAMBA server. It’s an incredibly cheap way to build a Network Attached Storage system for a home. Only $75, this means that…
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Guide to Moviemaking
Tom’s Hardware Guide Video: Making Digital Home Movies, Part 1 – Software. Finally a decent guide to all the software you need for video editing. I agree with them that Sony Vegas (formerly Sonicfoundry, I got mine as Video Explosion Deluxe), but it is all the same package is very nice. They have a bunch…
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Tour de France on the Web
OK, some amazing ways to catch the Tour de France other than on a TV: * Wireless Sign-Up 2004 Tour de France – 14:28:42 GMT. This gets you results texted to your cell phone * “Listen Live”:mms://adv.mirrorimage.net/event/mimg/evt20040702/audio. This link works if you have Media Player. It uses the mms: link so it doesn’t work in…
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Camera Bags
Been looking for a good camera bag that will fit a 35mm SLR and a long lense. Lowepro seems to have many good choices here including according to: * “Photo.net”:http://www.photo.net/equipment/bags/. As usual, the best reviews are here. Phil really likes the Tamrac bags though. Loves the huge Lowepro Trekker AW. * “Photography Review”:http://www.photographyreview.com/pscCamera,Cases/Backpacks/PLS_3139_912crx.aspx. Main issue…
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PC Buying Guide
These Anandtech buying guides are just awesome. Rather than writing my own, I’ll just do the difference in opinion I have compared with their analysis: h2. High end See AnandTech: Buyer’s Guide: High End System – July 2004 for base recommendations. Here are the deltas to get a machine cost (without monitor) of $2200 but…
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No RAID-0 needed for desktops
AnandTech: Western Digital’s Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?. I was going to get a pair of 74GB 10Krpm drives in a RAID-0 to just get screaming desktop performance. Indeed, it does look like that RAID-0 double actual disk throughput, but because a single drive also has caching and lookahead, the real…
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Laptop Lust
Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP Review. So it costs $3,700. This is the utlimate machine. Thinner than a quarter, it has DVD, 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB Ram.
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Great Photo Processing
Film Processing, Photographic Lab, Printing – A&I Photographic Lab. Just a note, after a year of use, we really love A&I’s photo processing. With a year or so to go until I go digital, this has been a nice compromise. Get a wonderful 35mm camera (Nikon N80) and some great lenses (50MM F/1.8 and 70-200MM…
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Driver license times
Drivers Field Office Information. Hey, they even put the time you have to wait for a drivers license on the web. How cool is that!
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Tour de France is here!
Well, its Tour de France time and the fever over here is high. Lots of bikers hanging out here. Here are some great places to look by google pagerank: * “Official TdF site”:http://www.letour.fr/2004/us/index.html. The official site. Wow, it all begins this Saturday if you can believe it! This site is great for the official results.…
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Fountain Pump
Fountain pump – Little giant model 369 – free shipping. OK, here’s the power of the Internet for you. My Dad’s fountain pump broke and it is one google query to find this site that has about every pump in the world.
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GPS Update
Took a basic navigation class today and realized I’m under gadgeted on marine hardware, so here’s an update: * GPS Receiver Information, Software, and Hardware Reviews of Garmin, Lowrance, Magellan and other GPS Receivers. This is the most amazing site. I used it two years ago to pick a Magellan Sportrak Pro. Its still a…
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What is your XP Product Key
Magical Jelly Bean Software – Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v1.41. A nifty utility that tells the current Windows XP product key. Useful when trying to diagnose things.
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Announcement: 1 for 3 in real improvement
Quite a lot happening on the PC front. Intel announced their new 775 pin socket, new chipsets and new Pentium 3.6GHz. The amazing thing is that with all that technology, it ain’t faster than the current generation or the Athlon 64 in many cases. That’s amazing. AMD also announced their new 939-socket family. Some slight…
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Zoo Tycoon
Scenario Walkthroughs. Alex is loving Zoo Tycoon. Its actually a hard game with lots of math required. Here are some scenario walkthroughs to help get through a game.
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OGM Files
Lazy Man’s Guide to Ogg Media (OGM Files). I’ve been encoding movies into the Ogg Media format (OGM). This has Xvid for the video coding and Ogg Vorbis for the audio. A great guide.
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Lookout for Outlook
Lookout email search for Microsoft Outlook – Lookout Software. Outlook is definitely becoming a platform. Thank goodness the object model is finally decent. This utility lets you do a google like search across all your mail.
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Buying Cell phones online
OK, here are folks doing activations online. * “Amazon”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/301185/ref=sd_str_wi/104-2743300-6001541. Their big cellular store. They have incredible discounts as well because of their scale. * “Let’s Talk”:http://Letstalk.com. These guys are no. 3 google hit when you search for “cell phone” I’ve used them before. * “Point”:http://Point.com. The one that I use quite a bit as well.…