Dullroar

I was going to write something for the blog about motorcycles and safety and such, but then this afternoon, while I was pondering the idea and sitting in traffic, someone rear-ended me. Just a tap, really, and I was in my car so no appreciable damage to me or the car. Of course, if I had been on my scooter, I have no idea where I'd now be. Surely I would have wound up on the ground and my scooter would be majorly fubar (SUV vs. scooter - no contest). Anyhow, the point is: no motorcycle safety post for now.

And what's the deal with me getting rear-ended? I've been hit 3 times (2 in Pittsburgh, 1 near Philadelphia). Each time, the collision was at 5 mph or below, while I was sitting still. Coincidence? Or am I doing something wrong? If I did something obvious like sitting still when I could be moving, people would honk at me more often than they hit me, but people don't honk.

Posted by Andy at 10:16 PM | Permalink

Yes, I'm now married and back from the honeymoon. In a word, it was all fantastic. I have many stories, and I promise I will share none of them (almost).

Meanwhile, here we have a pic of the Eiffel Tower. The thing about the Eiffel is that before you go, you might wonder why you're bothering to see such a hackneyed tourist trap. And then you get there and you realize: this thing is amazingly massive. Over 1000 feet tall. You get the camera out to snap a pic, and it doesn't fit. The tower is just too big to get it all in a single snapshot. You've got to move waaaay back, and then it's hard to capture the scale of the thing. Call me easily amused, but in the end, I thought the tower was awesome. Oh, and they light it up at night real purty, too.

Update: About that assumption that all popular stuff sucks, B says it best. Also, the wife's post on the honeymoon is fabulous, and rumor has it that there's more to come. By way of a tiny bit of explanation about her post: The term "France car" was coined by my niece. Someone asked her how she liked her trip to France last year, and she replied "Well, the France car was hot." Which, considering what happend in the France car, has got to be the understatement of the century.

Posted by Andy at 07:49 AM | Permalink

It's been a while since I photographed a mural, but I promise I haven't quit. It's just been a really, really busy spring. With luck, I'll be back at it in August or September. In the meantime, here's a great shot of a mural in East Liberty.

Posted by Andy at 04:51 PM | Permalink

I've been using Mozilla Sunbird for all my calendaring needs, and I can at this point assure you all that it is not ready for prime time. Not even close. It's corrupted my calendar file 3 times now. Possibly this is because my calendar file is over 300 KB, and possibly this is because I've been storing the calendar on a remote server via webdav. Really, I don't care why it is since the project hasn't released a new version in 4 months. JWZ also seems to dislike sunbird, calling it "crapware". As someone once pointed out to me, the whole notion of keeping all appointments in a single file is asking, no begging, for trouble, in the form of contention with multiple writers and corruption. So I'm thinking Sunbird's problems are more than skin deep and I shouldn't wait around for the next release.

I think I'm going to try keeping my calendar on paper for a while. I predict that I won't miss Sunbird.

Posted by Andy at 08:53 PM | Permalink